RSSTribold Partners With Business Objects to Bring Business Intelligence Leadership to Telecom Product Lifecycle
22 May 2006
London, 22 May, 2006 – Tribold, the product lifecycle management software applications provider, today announced that it is partnering with Business Objects(Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, to bring enhanced business intelligence functionality to Tribold’s products. With communications services providers moving towards a retailer model for product management, the combination of Business Objects’ technology and Tribold’s Product Portfolio Manager™ (PPM) will enable customers to gain enhanced business-level reporting and analytics as they undertake more strategic management and monitoring of products through their lifecycle.
Tribold will integrate the BusinessObjects™ XI platform into its Product Portfolio Manager™ software, which considerably reduces time to market for communications products. Specifically, Tribold will continue to incorporate the BusinessObjects XI platform’s tools to support out-of-the-box product reporting and ad-hoc operational reporting such as catalogue, bill of materials, price list and hierarchy information. In addition, Business Objects’ analytics capabilities will be used for intelligence on product profitability, penetration, competitor/predictive analysis and unit costing.
With more than 35,000 customers worldwide, Business Objects’ solutions are already used operationally to improve organisational performance more than any other BI vendor.
“Business Objects and Tribold have formed a partnership that will enhance the profitability associated with every communications product,” said Wyatt Mullin, vice president global ISV channel at Business Objects. “We will offer a powerful BI platform to meet the demands of progressive communications services providers. Joint customers will benefit from streamlined business processes and increased business performance.”
Catherine Michel, CTO of Tribold, said: “Communications services providers increasingly have to behave like retailers in the way they manage their product and data lifecycles. Being able to access and analyse product data in real time is key. Business Objects and Tribold have been working together for several months to closely integrate the functionality of our two platforms to deliver an exceptional level of business intelligence to the communications product lifecycle. As we move through customer engagements together, we will deepen our research and development activities and ensure that we can jointly provide first-rate support to our customers.”
Tribold PPM manages the key elements of product: design, build, launch, in-life management, retirement and analysis. Deploying Tribold technology reduces time to market, increases customer retention, enables effective management, improves competitive edge and drives revenues.
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About Tribold
Tribold is the world’s leading provider of true Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Product Data Management (PDM) enterprise application software specifically built for communications providers. Tribold’s PLM/PDM solutions enable communications providers worldwide to put product propositions at the heart of their business. Tribold does this by enabling communications providers to take products to market faster, by improving customer service through self-selection and by enhancing operational efficiency.
Tribold’s closed-loop solutions give communications providers a full 360° view of their products.
Based in London, Tribold was founded in 2003 and is privately held.For more see www.tribold.com.
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About Business Objects
Business Objects is the world’s leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 35,000 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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BRANDS2LIFE
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alice.lam@brands2life.com
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