SAP AND BUSINESS OBJECTS

Accenture works with organizations globally to successfully harness and manage information across the enterprise: SAP's vision for business performance optimization aligns with ours. Our experienced practitioners, already familiar with SAP Business Suite and the Business Objects business intelligence platform, will develop solutions that enable deeper analysis and drive performance through more competitive differentiation. And, the positive partnering environment already in place with both companies means we are optimistic about our joint business opportunities in this market."

The combined business has a number of synergies and opportunities around the very hot market area of 'Performance Management' and we anticipate that this will bring highly flexible performance management solutions into the market which will be natively integrated into the operational applications speeding up the deployment of performance management solutions. We support this acquisition and look forward to future collaborating for the benefit of our mutual customers and continuing to deliver joint value to the market."

The combination of the Business Objects business intelligence platform and applications with SAP's arsenal of world-class technologies should further strengthen SAP's ability to provide integrated, architected solutions to help customers meet their enterprise-wide information needs. The acquisition will strengthen Deloitte's ongoing collaboration with SAP to help clients meet information management needs, including but not limited to governance, risk, and compliance and corporate performance management. As well, it will support Deloitte's global CFO program, financial excellence and compliance, integrated performance management, and, more broadly, business intelligence initiatives at our joint clients."

As a long-time partner of both SAP and Business Objects, IBM enhances these business solutions with a proven, flexible infrastructure including servers and database technologies as well as industry-specific process and implementation know-how. Today, this already provides over 13,000 joint clients with strategic choice, global delivery capabilities and operational return for their projects and business."

TCS, with its strong industry and domain capabilities, will be looking forward to leveraging this combination of assets from the two market leaders and offering innovative solutions to our joint customers, providing them with significant business benefits."

We look forward to taking advantage of the expanded service offerings afforded by the union of SAP and Business Objects which, together with the deep domain experience of Wipro, will help customers extend the value of their enterprise applications and improve the business context of information."

Adobe has strong relationships with both companies, beginning with SAP in 2003 with SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe and more recently with Business Objects in 2007 to combine the power of business intelligence with RIAs. We are excited about partnering with the newly combined company and joint prospects to revolutionize how business users engage with corporate information."

With the union of SAP and Business Objects, Callidus looks forward to building on the existing relationship with both companies and sees natural opportunities to continue to collaborate for the benefit of our mutual customers."

With HP's strong portfolio of business intelligence offerings, we will continue to work with SAP to provide integrated solutions to help our joint customers solve some of the most complex information challenges."

We've partnered with Business Objects for 15 years on Microsoft Visual Studio and more recently on the delivery of the Business Objects XI integration kit for Microsoft SharePoint Server. Microsoft enthusiastically supports the combination of SAP and Business Objects, and I welcome the opportunity to build on our joint efforts with these two great partners as they become one."

We congratulate them on their new union and look forward to working together to deliver the best in enterprise analytics to our mutual customers."

This is exciting news for both existing and future customers looking to reduce costs, improve performance, and gain the agility to respond to changing business needs. Their combined strength will result in new, innovative offerings to meet the growing demands of today's business users, regardless of company size."

We also feel comfortable that Business Objects will continue to support all of our clients, regardless of their platform, and stay true to its roots."

The solutions will be designed to enable companies to strengthen decision processes, increase customer value and create sustainable competitive advantage through real time, multidimensional business intelligence. For us, IDS Scheer, this combination will boost our ARIS SmartPath solutions for SAP and will allow us to increase higher value for our midsize customers."

The combination of business process and analytics applications allows non-technical users to dramatically improve the quality of their decision making by instantaneously and easily providing the information that they need without having to leave their every day productivity tools."

Particularly with our small enterprise customers, we see a strong demand for transparency and advanced reporting capabilities – the union of those two companies will certainly help us better serve our customers' needs and expand our user base."

The combined company and offering will surely allow us to improve our positioning and to approach these customers with a stronger value proposition. We look forward to expanding our partnership with SAP and Business Objects."