Exeros DataMapper Integrated with BusinessObjects Metadata Manager XI Accelerates Deployment of Data Lineage Programs SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Exeros(TM), Inc., an innovator in data mapping and automated data relationship discovery software, today announced a partnership with Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, to accelerate time to deployment of data lineage projects for users of BusinessObjects(TM) Metadata Manager XI in complex heterogeneous environments. Data lineage is like an RFID tag for data - it tells you where the data is and how it flows throughout an organization. This "trail" is essential for ensuring the quality, reliability and auditability of data, and is a lynchpin of data governance projects. "Data governance is a complex process," said Fern Halper, a partner at analyst firm Hurwitz & Associates. "Before organizations can create policies to manage data, they should understand their data. That means having a comprehensive awareness of where data lives, how it interacts with other data, and where it has been. This means understanding data lineage. Exeros and Business Objects realize the significance of data lineage on data governance initiatives and have created a solution to address this issue". "BusinessObjects Metadata Manager helps companies consolidate metadata from a large number of disparate sources," said Todd Goldman, vice president, marketing, Exeros. "It provides users of business intelligence reports confidence in those reports by showing the data lineage back to the originating system." Exeros DataMapper, the only solution of its kind, automates the discovery of business rules and hidden sensitive data across multiple systems (such as Social Security numbers 'stuffed' into other columns and rows). With this partnership, Exeros DataMapper will automatically populate BusinessObjects Metadata Manager with the business rules and metadata vital for understanding data lineage. This integration will significantly lower the cost and time to deployment for data lineage projects by more than five times the average. "Many organizations are reduced to discovering their data lineage and populating a metadata repository by hand, which is a time consuming and costly process," said Wyatt Mullin, vice president of global ISV channels, Business Objects. "Exeros DataMapper will automate and accelerate the discovery and population of data relationship metadata into BusinessObjects Metadata Manager. We look forward to working with Exeros to ensure the success of our joint customers." Exeros DataMapper is used by companies to lower the risk and speed the deployment of sensitive data flow discovery, master data management, hand- code-to-ETL migration and legacy data migration projects, saving companies thousands of data analyst hours and millions of dollars. BusinessObjects Metadata Manager XI reduces project costs by consolidating and integrating metadata into an open, relational repository. In addition, Metadata Manager provides impact analysis, which enables users to find the relationships between sources (tables or columns), targets, universes, and documents so they can better understand the impact of changes to source and target systems. About Exeros Exeros, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, was founded in 2002 by senior executives with more than 50 years combined experience in data management and data integration. Funded by AllianceBernstein Holding L.P., Bay Partners and Globespan Capital Partners, the company's mission is to increase the efficiency and accuracy of data integration projects through automated data relationship discovery and data mapping. Effective data mapping significantly reduces the time, risk and cost involved in corporate data integration and ensures higher data quality. For more information, call: 408-919-0191; email: , or visit http://www.exeros.com/. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 42,000 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 http://www.businessobjects.com/. Exeros and Exeros Data Mapper are trademarks of Exeros, Inc. 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. Contact: Jim Baptiste Davies Murphy Group, Inc. (781) 418-2438 http://www.daviesmurphy.com/ DATASOURCE: Exeros, Inc. CONTACT: Jim Baptiste of Davies Murphy Group, Inc., +1-781-418-2438, or , for Exeros, Inc. Web site: http://www.exeros.com/ http://www.businessobjects.com/

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