Executives listed here are all customers of Business Objects. Their willingness to talk has been confirmed by Baseline.

CONSOLIDATED CONTAINER
Andrew Ziegele
Director, I.T.
(678) 742-4629
Project: Atlanta-based maker of plastic bottles is more than halfway through a planned rollout in its 70 plants of BusinessObjects, covering financials, logistics and inventory.

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD
Michael Clarke
Manager, Corporate Data Management
(403) 319-7917
Project: A user for five years, the transportation company has deployed BusinessObjects in three main areas: marketing, operations and customer service.

OWENS & MINOR
Don Stoller
Director, Information Management
(804) 527-5679
Project: Medical-product supplier first chose Business Objects back in 1996, and now uses WebIntelligence for a revenue-generating extranet with customers.

PROGRESS ENERGY
Steve Millward
Lead Business Financial Analyst
(919) 546-6472
Project: N.C.-based utility chose Business Objects over Cognos and Brio to improve its cost-management process by getting report-creation ability in the hands of analysts instead of programmers.

THRIFTY CAR RENTAL
Kristi Benton
Business Analyst, Sales & Marketing
(918) 669-2230
Project: Has been running BusinessObjects 5.0 for the last two years, but will be phasing to Cognos as part of its merger with Dollar.

W.W. GRAINGER
Sam Kim
VP, Knowledge Management Svcs.
(847) 535-1000
Project: The $4.8-billion facilities provider uses BusinessObjects, integrated with SAP, to coordinate a centralized source of information about its more than 400 stocking locations.

Business Objects
3030 Orchard Parkway
San Jose, CA 95134
(408) 953-6000
www.businessobjects.com

TICKER: BOBJ
EXCHANGE: NASDAQ
EMPLOYEES: 2,226

Bernard Liautaud
Chairman, CEO, Co-Founder
Before co-founding the company in 1990, had been the deputy scientific attaché for the French Embassy in Washington, D.C.

John Olsen
President, COO
Runs global operations and, among other duties, is responsible for the e-store. Most recently, he was president and CEO of systems-management e-business software provider Marimba.

Mark Tice
Group VP, Worldwide Channel Sales
Formerly general manager of data integration, he managed the integration of Acta Technology (July 2002). Also ran global strategic alliances, managing partnerships with system integrators, IBM, Microsoft, and ERP vendors.

PRODUCTS
BusinessObjects 5i and WebIntelligence 2.6 are the latest of the company's reporting tools, offered alongside BusinessObjects Application Foundation and a planned update intended to highlight collaboration features.