Business Objects And Owens & Minor Win TDWI Best Practices Award
Business Objects, a leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, has announced that The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) has named Business Objects and its customer Owens & Minor as winners of the 1999 Best Practices in Data Warehousing Award for the "Warehouse and the Web" category.
The category covers organizations' innovative use of technology and web browsers to deliver information from data warehouses to solve business problems and improve customer service.
Business Objects is being recognized for its implementation of WEBINTELLIGENCE, the company's integrated query, reporting, and online analytical processing (OLAP) solution for the web, at Owens & Minor. Owens & Minor, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Richmond, Va., is the nation's largest distributor of national brand medical and surgical supplies. Using WEBINTELLIGENCE as its front-end data access tool, Owens & Minor has developed a supply-chain extranet that allows its customers and suppliers to track sales, manage inventory, and negotiate improved contracts through product consolidation.
"Owens & Minor was one of the first companies to understand that converging business intelligence and the internet creates tremendous opportunity for organizations to deliver e-business intelligence extranets," said Bernard Liautaud, president and CEO of Business Objects. "Since Owens & Minor's pioneering effort, companies in many other industries are deploying extranets to share data with their partners, suppliers, and customers. We're very pleased that Owens & Minor and Business Objects are able to share in winning this prestigious award from TDWI."
The Best Practices Award winners will present their winning nominations, and compete for the coveted Leadership Award in Data Warehousing, at TDWI's Best Practices and Implementation Conference in San Diego, September 19-24. The winning Best Practices nominations will be presented on Tuesday, September 21 and Wednesday, September 22, and judged by a panel of experts. The Leadership Award Winner will present its winning nomination at TDWI's Leadership Conference, November 14-19, 1999 in Orlando, Florida.
The Data Warehousing Institute is a premier educational association in the data warehousing industry. TDWI is dedicated to educating business and information technology professionals about the strategies, techniques, and tools required to successfully design, build, and maintain data warehousing implementations, and also to the advancement of data warehousing research, knowledge transfer, and the professional development of its members.
The Data Warehousing Institute achieves its mission through sharing information about the best practices and real world lessons of data warehousing professionals. Founded in 1995, TDWI sponsors and promotes a worldwide membership program (more than 4,000 members in 45 countries), annual educational conferences, a regional seminar series, onsite education courses, solution provider partnerships, awards programs for the best practices in data warehousing and innovative technologies, resourceful publications, in-depth research programs, and a comprehensive web site.
Business Objects is a leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools. Business Objects products provide non-technical business users with access to information stored in data warehouses, data marts, and packaged business applications. Business Objects provides a complete suite of decision support tools including query, reporting, online analytical processing, data mining, and DSS administration for both client/server and internet environments. Business Objects has sold more than 1,317,000 licenses to over 8,600 organizations in more than 60 countries worldwide.
Business Objects may be reached by phone at 408-953-6000 or on the world wide web at http://www.businessobjects.com.