Planview Increases Business Intelligence Functionality Through Expanded Alliance With Business Objects

Relationship offers enterprises a user-friendly business intelligence tool, integrated reporting capabilities

AUSTIN, Texas — May 12, 2004 — Planview, Inc., the leading provider of portfolio management and corporate IT governance solutions, today announced it has achieved Platinum Level status in the Business Objects Partner Program. Through an expanded alliance agreement, Planview has embedded powerful data analysis and reporting tools from Business Objects into its IT project portfolio management software, enabling Planview to offer customers increased visibility into project management and IT governance processes.

"Planview and Business Objects share a common goal of delivering solutions that ultimately help companies improve enterprise performance,” said Wyatt Mullin, director of worldwide OEM for Business Objects. “By leveraging the robust query, reporting and analysis capabilities of Business Objects, the integrated solution enables Planview's customers to make even better informed decisions about how to get the greatest business impact from their IT initiatives using a user-friendly business intelligence toolset."

A major global software company is among the customers already benefiting from an integrated Planview and Business Objects solution. As a result, this company is able to tap into Planview's Scorecard Datamart and perform powerful analyses that are used to effectively manage resources, improve productivity and cut costs. By automating the company's Dashboard and Resource Utilization Reports, the company will save more than 4,420 man-hours per year.

About Planview

Founded in 1989, Planview enables enterprises to make business sense out of IT. More than 350 customers and 400,000 users at industry leaders, including Allianz, Farmers Insurance, Pfizer, Reuters, the State of Connecticut Department of Information Technology, Volkswagen America and Zurich North America, rely on Planview to forecast, plan, manage and execute their portfolio of projects. Planview is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices throughout the United States, the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Privately held, Planview has enjoyed 11 straight years of profitability and increasing revenue. For more information, visit www.Planview.com.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. Business intelligence enables organizations to track, understand and manage enterprise performance. The company's solutions leverage the information that is stored in an array of corporate databases, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems.

Popular uses of BI include enterprise reporting, management dashboards and scorecards, customer intelligence applications, financial reporting, and both customer and partner extranets. These solutions enable companies to gain visibility into their business, acquire and retain profitable customers, reduce costs, optimize the supply chain, increase productivity and improve financial performance.

In December 2003, Business Objects completed the acquisition of Crystal Decisions, the leader in enterprise reporting. The combined product line includes software for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, analytic applications, and data integration. In addition, Business Objects offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

Business Objects has more than 24,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB). It is included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at (408) 953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com.

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