Digital River Expands Global E-Commerce Agreement with Business Objects
Adds Americas site to Business Objects’ existing global e-commerce sites
MINNEAPOLIS, June 8, 2006 -- Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced that it expanded its e-commerce supplier agreement with Business Objects, (NASDAQ:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code FR0004026250-BOB), the world’s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. As part of the e-commerce agreement, the companies recently built and launched Business Objects’ Americas e-commerce site, which is accessible at http://store.businessobjects.com/. Digital River provides the back-end e-commerce infrastructure for the recently-launched site, and manages the online sale as well as the digital and physical delivery of the Crystal family of products, the company’s popular BI reporting and visualization solutions.
“We are excited about the opportunity to expand our relationship and help Business Objects grow its global e-commerce operation,” said Dave Alampi, Digital River’s vice president of marketing. “By leveraging our e-commerce services and infrastructure, Business Objects can continue to devote its resources to developing leading business intelligence software.”
Customers shopping on the Business Objects Americas online store can now find its Crystal family of products, which delivers a complete set of reporting capabilities, including Crystal Reports, Crystal Vision and Crystal Xcelsius. Solutions from Business Objects help organizations track, understand and manage enterprise performance. In addition to executing the downloads for this BI platform, Digital River is processing order transactions using preferred payment methods as well as providing fraud prevention screening and customer service support.
“By expanding our relationship with Digital River, we can capitalize on the company’s e-commerce expertise and centralize our e-commerce operations,” said Stephen Midgley, senior director of web marketing and operations at Business Objects. “We can leverage Digital River’s resources, and the scalability of its platform and technology investments to help cost-effectively manage and grow our worldwide e-commerce operations as well as minimize our risks.”
About Digital River, Inc.
Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The companys comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.
Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in major U.S. cities as well as Cologne, Germany; London, England; Shannon, Ireland; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.
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.
Digital River is a registered trademark of Digital River, 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 company and product names are trademarks, registrations or copyrights of their respective owners.
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