Contemporary/Business Objects Partner

Contemporary Plc, the UK`s premier provider of eBusinessIntelligence solutions announced a strategic partnership with Business Objects, a leading provider of e-Business Intelligence solutions. The partnership enables Contemporary to provide their clients with sophisticated eBusinessIntelligence solutions that enable users to access, analyse and share information in intranet, extranet and e-business intelligence environments. This new partnership expands Contemporary`s high-end technology offering within their total eBusinessIntelligence solutions.

As a leading technology Business Objects both compliments and further enhances Contemporary`s BI solutions. The advanced capabilities for enterprise Web deployment, including feature-rich reporting and analysis using Web Intelligence are very powerful. The ability to seamlessly deliver this intelligence within existing web interfaces and with the additional flexibility to manage content and documents from many disparate sources is a feature that will benefit many of Contemporary`s clients.

"We are very pleased that Contemporary has chosen to partner with Business Objects to complement their existing e-Business Intelligence offering.

The addition of Contemporary to our Partner Programme is testament to the high standards required by our accreditation process which ensures that partners are well qualified to deliver successful and unique business solutions", commented Steve McLoughlin, channel sales director for Business Objects.

"Business Objects is a flexible and scalable solution that is ideal for large scale complex eBIapplications and complements our 'best of breed' strategy," added Justin Short, technology director at Contemporary. "At Contemporary we are continuously striving to deliver the best for our clients and believe that by working with Business Objects we will be able to do just that."

About Business Objects

Business Objects is a leading provider of e-business intelligence (e- BI) solutions. The company coined the term "e-business intelligence" in 1998 to describe the intersection of business intelligence and the Internet. Using e-business intelligence, organisations can access, analyse, and share information in intranet, extranet, and e-business environments. In intranets, the company's products provide employees with information to make better business decisions, and are used in environments ranging from workgroups of 20 users to enterprise deployments exceeding 20,000. In the extranet environment, the company is pioneering the use of e-BI in applications that allow organizations to build stronger relationships by linking customers, partners, and suppliers via the Internet. In addition, the company's products can improve the performance of an e-business by providing reporting and analysis against the ever-expanding amount of transaction and profile data that is collected each day throughout the World Wide Web.

Founded in 1990, Business Objects pioneered the modern business intelligence industry by inventing and patenting a "semantic layer" that insulates users from the technical complexity of database systems. Today, the company has over 13,100 customers in more than 80 countries. For further information visit www.businessobjects.com.

About Contemporary Plc

Contemporary plc are the UK`s premier provider of eBusinessIntelligence (eBI) solutions. Established in 1992, the company has won numerous awards from Crystal Decisions, formerly Seagate Software, and has become their leading enterprise partner. Contemporary were responsible for introducing Crystal Reports into the UK and European markets in the early `90s, as their first European distribution partner. Since then the company has been responsible for developing and implementing eBIsolutions for a number of large corporations, such as Hewlett Packard, Reuters, Mars and travelstore.com. Partnerships with Business Objects, ProClarity, Appsmart, and Microsoft together with Crystal Decisions and Visual Insights means that today, Contemporary can offer "Best of Breed" eBIsolutions.

Contemporary enable organizations to realise the importance and potential of their corporate information by utilising their core assets -- people and information. The company offers consulting, development, training and technical support services enabling them to address all eBusinessIntelligence requirements, ranging from data warehousing through to information delivery and ensuring responsibility for strategy development to full project delivery. For further information visit: www.contemporary.co.uk.