Attensity's Text Analytics Capabilities Integrated with BusinessObjects XI Release 2 as Part of New Business Objects Open Search Initiative

Business Objects Insight Americas 2006 - SAN FRANCISCO - Nov. 6, 2006 - Attensity™, the innovator in Text Analytics software solutions, today announced its Exhaustive Extraction™ technology has been integrated with the BusinessObjects™ XI Release 2, the industry leading business intelligence (BI) platform from Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ), the world's leading provider of BI solutions. The newly expanded technology partnership between Attensity and Business Objects is part of the Business Objects Open Search Initiative (OSI), a new partner network of leading text analytics, enterprise search, and consulting companies.

Through this technology partnership, business and government users will be able to intuitively interact with vast stores of information - everything from call center notes and customer emails to surveillance reports - to discover facts, trends and insights without having to be experts in the BI system itself. Companies can identify critical, previously undetectable events and relationships between data by unifying unstructured and structured sources using data integration, data quality, and semantic reconciliation.

"As part of our Open Search Initiative and the launch of new search capabilities in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 Productivity Suite, Business Objects is embracing text analytics to help facilitate data exploration, reporting, and analysis of structured and unstructured data," said Wyatt Mullin, vice president of global ISV channels at Business Objects. "Companies using our BI solutions with Attensity's Exhaustive Extraction technology will now be able to access information contained within unstructured data sources to discover answers to critical questions they haven't even thought of asking."

Attensity is an official Technology Partner of Business Objects and a leading proponent of its enterprise information management (EIM) solutions. EIM is a combination of strategy, practices and open technologies for delivering trusted, integrated and timely information. Attensity's out-of-the-box integration with Business Objects enables customers to output newly structured facts directly into the data warehouse. Through EIM, Attensity can also reconcile metadata it produces with metadata already stored in the corporate data system. Attensity can even leverage the data quality capabilities of the Business Objects EIM solution for cleansing and de-duping.

"Attensity is pleased to join the Business Objects Open Search Initiative and offer a truly unique Text Analytics solution for the BusinessObjects XI platform," said Craig Norris, Attensity's chief executive officer. "By combining capabilities that deliver 360-degree data search and analysis, Attensity and Business Objects will help customers identify their most challenging issues, produce the most accurate metrics, and make the most informed business decisions using information previously hidden in text."

Attensity and Business Objects representatives will provide in-depth, interactive test-drives of the integrated solution at the Business Objects Insight Americas 2006 user conference taking place this week in San Francisco. The demonstrations will encompass the new integrated search solution, as well as comprehensive analytic solutions that integrate Attensity's technology into data warehousing, ETL, and business intelligence systems.

About Attensity™
Text Analytics software and solutions from Attensity rapidly and accurately transform unstructured data into valuable, actionable information. Attensity enables Global 2000 enterprises and government agencies to extract facts from freeform text, integrate them with structured data, and analyze 100 percent of data seamlessly using Attensity applications or existing business intelligence applications of choice. The company's patented Exhaustive Extraction™ technology speeds detection and response to critical events and issues related to intelligence analysis, money laundering, fraud detection, insurance claims analytics, customer care, and service and warranty analysis. Attensity teams with IBM, Business Objects and Teradata to offer comprehensive solutions integrated with data warehousing and business intelligence systems. Attensity was named to Fortune's "25 Breakout Companies" in 2005 and is among Intelligent Enterprise's "Companies to Watch" in 2006. Attensity is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. with a technology center in Salt Lake City, Utah. More information is at http://www.attensity.com.

About Business Objects
Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 39,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects™ XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

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.

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