GoldenGate Software Joins Business Objects Technology Partner Program

Industry-Leading Solutions Help Organizations Unlock Value from Data Transactions, Supporting Real-Time Reporting and Analytics

San Francisco - January 29, 2007 -

GoldenGate Software Inc., the leading provider of high availability and real-time data integration solutions, today announced that it has joined the Business Objects Technology Partner Program. Under the agreement, GoldenGate will work with Business Objects to enable real-time business intelligence (BI) in the enterprise. The benefits to leveraging Business Objects in combination with GoldenGate solutions for real-time reporting and analytics have already been established at a number of customer sites including Overstock.com, a leading online retailer, and Westcon, a leading distributor of telecommunications equipment.

These customer organizations have deployed GoldenGate and Business Objects for a comprehensive, real-time BI platform, driving faster, more informed, and accurate business decisions based on the most up-to-date information. GoldenGate captures and delivers real-time transactional data across the widest range of databases and platforms to serve a variety of needs, including live reporting and analytics from BusinessObjects XI Release 2, the industry-leading Business Objects BI platform.

"GoldenGate's transactional data management solutions deliver transactional data from operational systems for real-time reporting, analytics, and decision making," said Wyatt Mullin, vice president of worldwide ISV channel at Business Objects. "Integrating GoldenGate's solution with our business intelligence solution gives customers even greater ability to track, understand, and manage their trusted information. We are happy to welcome GoldenGate to our strong partner community, and look forward to demonstrating additional value through our joint customers."

BI projects show a consistently high return on investment, and Business Objects and GoldenGate enable organizations to give users simplified access to the most reliable and accurate information, delivering deeper insight into their business. GoldenGate Software's transactional data management (TDM) solutions maximize the performance, accessibility, and availability of transactional data across heterogeneous IT environments.

"The world's most successful organizations recognize that leveraging the most up-to-date data about the business is the key to an effective business intelligence strategy," said Tim Rathbun, executive vice president of marketing and product management for GoldenGate Software. "This alliance with Business Objects will allow customers real-time access to real-time information, which is increasingly a requirement for achieving high performance, operational efficiency and a competitive edge. Our companies share a commitment to extending the value of enterprise information."

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 39,000 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 .

About GoldenGate Software

GoldenGate Software Inc. is the leading provider of high availability and real-time data integration solutions for improving the availability, accessibility and performance of critical data across enterprise systems. GoldenGate's technology offerings enable businesses to capture, route, transform, deliver, and verify transactional data in real time across heterogeneous IT environments. With more than 300 customers worldwide, GoldenGate is used to drive solutions for critical initiatives in high availability, disaster tolerance, and real-time data integration. Customers include Visa, Bank of America, Sabre Holdings, Comcast, Federated Investors, Mayo Foundation and Overstock.com. GoldenGate broadens its global market reach through key relationships with ISVs and systems integrators including ACI Worldwide, GE Healthcare, Teradata, Amdocs, MySQL AB , and others. A private company, GoldenGate is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found on the web at www.goldengate.com .

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Contact:

Melissa Liton
Kulesa Public Relations/ for GoldenGate
(206) 440-5775
melissa@kulesapr.com

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