Business Objects Wins Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award for crystalreports.com

SAN JOSE, Calif. and PARIS - April 17, 2006 - Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that it has been awarded the 'Best in Show' Midsize Enterprise Innovation™ Award for the company's new on-demand BI solution, crystalreports.com. Winners of the Midsize Enterprise Innovation Awards were chosen by attendees at the Midsize Enterprise Summit last week, and honored at an awards dinner and ceremony during the event in Hollywood, Florida.

Launched last week at the Summit, crystalreports.com enables customers to securely share important business information over the web. With crystalreports.com, mid-sized organizations can take advantage of the industry's most advanced and complete BI platform without additional investments in their IT infrastructure.

Hundreds of senior IT executives attending the Midsize Enterprise Summit completed confidential ballots to select technology vendors for Midsize Enterprise Innovation Awards after previewing and learning about new technologies and services in private boardroom appointments and world premiere presentations. Business Objects was chosen 'Best in Show,' recognizing the most innovative solutions and the most integrated, high visibility promotional effort throughout the Summit.

"The mid-market is a key growth area for Business Objects, and we continue to provide new and innovative business intelligence solutions to enable these organizations to improve their business performance," said Todd Rowe, vice president of worldwide mid-market business at Business Objects. "Small and medium-sized organizations often struggle with the constraints of a small IT department and tight budgets. The launch of crystalreports.com extends our market position in delivering BI solutions targeted specifically at the mid-market that deliver the powerful functionality of an enterprise solution, at a cost that works within the budget constraints of a mid-sized organization. We feel winning the Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award is a great achievement and is further proof that Business Objects continues to set the bar in the BI industry."

In addition to crystalreports.com, Business Objects offers a variety of other solutions designed for mid-sized organizations, including Crystal Reports® Server XI and several mid-market solution bundles. Crystal Reports Server XI is a packaged reporting solution that includes everything mid-sized organizations need to create, deliver, and manage reports over the web. The Business Objects mid-market solution bundles combine software for performance management, reporting, and data integration, to provide complete BI solutions to meet the needs of mid-market organizations. These bundles provide the ease of implementation, deployment, and management required by mid-market organizations to keep their costs down, while delivering the scalability of the BusinessObjects™ XI platform to grow with their organization over time.

Midsize Enterprise Summit is produced by Vision Events, a Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) company. For more information on Business Objects solutions for the mid-market, please visit www.businessobjects.com/midmarket.

About Business Objects, an SAP company

Business Objects has been a pioneer in business intelligence (BI) since the dawn of the category. Today, as the world's leading BI software company, Business Objects transforms the way the world works through intelligent information. The company helps illuminate understanding and decision-making at more than 46,000 organizations around the globe. Through a combination of innovative technology, global consulting and education services, and the industry's strongest and most diverse partner network, Business Objects enables companies of all sizes to make transformative business decisions based on intelligent, accurate, and timely information.

Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com.

Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects and Crystal Reports are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects in the United States and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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