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Business Objects and salesforce.com today announced they will make Crystal Reports XI available for the salesforce.com AppExchange. This partnership will enable salesforce.com customers and subscribers to integrate and deploy enterprise reporting directly in their Salesforce implementations. With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their businesses, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. Crystal Reports XI for AppExchange will allow salesforce.com's on-demand community of 18,700 customers and 351,0000 subscribers to access data from salesforce.com and combine it with other data source to build customized reports. "We are the market leader in business intelligence and one of the first to offer an on-demand BI solution. Delivering Crystal Reports XI on AppExchange is an extension of Business Objects' customer focused strategy to deliver BI in whatever format customers wish to use," said John Schwarz, CEO, Business Objects. "We have made it a top priority to provide our customers a business intelligence solution precisely how they want it -- regardless of platform, operating system, or deployment model. By making Crystal Reports XI available to the salesforce.com community, we are giving subscribers at organizations of any size the ability to turn ordinary data into feature-rich, flexible reports that deliver the information they need." "Business Objects is the world leader in business intelligence solutions and their support for the on-demand model demonstrates the incredible momentum of the AppExchange for on-demand applications," said Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "By delivering Crystal Reports XI on-demand via the AppExchange, Business Objects is democratizing business intelligence, making powerful and easy-to-use reporting accessible to users everywhere." Crystal Reports XI for AppExchange will join more than 150 application listings created by salesforce.com, its customers, and partners that are now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange. AppExchange provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration for Salesforce deployments, and enables a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go way beyond CRM. Launched today, AppExchange enables all of these on-demand applications to be easily shared, exchanged, and installed with one click into any salesforce.com account. AppExchange can be found at its Web site . Availability Customers may begin their deployment planning with salesforce.com and Business Objects immediately. General availability is expected in Q2 2006.