Business Objects Memory Lane

Now that Business Objects is now part of SAP, a few old photos…

First ever Business Objects event

First ever Business Objects trade show booth: Gartner Symposium, Cannes, 1991. Founders Bernard Liautaud and Denis Payre (now CEO of Kiala) fold together dozens plastic cubes representing “Business Objects” that can be recombined to create queries (see below). After hours of patient work, we returned the next morning to find they had all popped open again (blame the marketing guy)…

First ever Business Objects event2

Alexandre Dayon, first employee of Business Objects (now CEO of Instranet), in the booth, ready to do demos.

First ever Business Objects employee event

First organized employee trip, Les Arcs. Don’t ask. It was fun…

First ever Business Objects quota club

First quota club trip, Val d’Isere.

Post to Twitter Post to Delicious Post to Digg Post to Facebook Post to LinkedIn Post to StumbleUpon

Related posts:

Speak Your Mind

Tell us what you're thinking...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!

 
Interested in #analytics and #bigdata? Join us in Brisbane or Sydney next week: http://t.co/Wc1NFU8G #businessobjects #bi #sap #SAPforum4 minutes ago