Netezza and Business Objects Strengthen Strategic Relationship; Growing Joint Customer Footprint and a Shared Vision of Market Opportunities Reinforce Companies' Commitment to High-Performance, Cost-Effective BI Solutions

Netezza Corporation today announced the continued
strengthening of their partnership with Business Objects (Nasdaq:
BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's
leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. The two
companies remain committed to continued product integration and are
working closely together to develop focused solutions for the BI and
enterprise information management (EIM) markets. The combination of
the high-performance Netezza Performance Server(R) (NPS(R)) system and
Business Objects' business intelligence platform results in a powerful
BI foundation that delivers the full spectrum of BI capabilities,
including reporting, analytics, dashboards and data integration.
Netezza and Business Objects are achieving strong success in
targeting customers in retail/CPG, financial services,
telecommunications and other data-intensive industries. Several
leading companies, including CompuCredit Corporation, Debenhams and
Epsilon are successfully leveraging the products from both companies
to enhance their BI capabilities. The continued focus on enhanced
integration between these products will make it even easier for
organizations to deploy these solutions together and will allow new
customers to quickly accrue greater benefits. "We see tremendous value
in leveraging these solutions together," said Guido Sacchi, Chief
Information Officer and SVP, Corporate Strategies at CompuCredit. "The
remarkable increase in performance which Netezza offers has resulted
in more users benefiting from Business Objects applications and has
increased the business value of our system."
"We are proud to support the Netezza Performance Server Release 3
with our BusinessObjects(TM) XI Release 2 platform - including
high-speed bulk loading capabilities using our BusinessObjects Data
Integrator solution for ETL," said Donald McCormick, vice president,
product marketing at Business Objects. "With its appliance, Netezza
has powerful price/performance and simplicity advantages for data
warehousing that challenge traditional assumptions about the
complexity and cost of data analysis. In particular, Netezza's
recently introduced smaller data warehouse appliances open up the
possibility of an integrated BI solution for the mid-market that can
deliver enterprise-level performance without the complexity or
administrative burden usually associated with large enterprise
systems. Business Objects will continue to work closely with Netezza
to bring game-changing BI capabilities to market."
"As a result of our relationship with Business Objects, our
customers have access to a complete BI solution that empowers them to
fully access and utilize their enterprise data for strategic
advantage," said Jit Saxena, CEO and co-founder, Netezza Corp. "As
market adoption of our appliance model continues to grow, we look
forward to working with Business Objects to further enhance the
performance, value and ease-of-use of BI."

About Netezza Corporation
Netezza, the global data warehouse appliance market leader,
enables enterprises to make all of their data actionable - quickly,
simply and affordably. The Netezza Performance Server family of
products delivers breakthrough performance, unmatched ease of
deployment and operation, and innovative flexibility and scalability
at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouse solutions. By
architecturally integrating database, server and storage within a
single appliance, the NPS system delivers 10 to 100 times the
performance at half the cost of existing systems. Based in Framingham,
Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and
Asia Pacific. The Company is backed by leading venture capital firms,
including Matrix Partners, Charles River Ventures, Battery Ventures,
Orange, Sequoia Capital and Meritech Capital Partners. For more
information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.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(TM) 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.
The Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports,
Intelligent Question, and Xcelsius 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.