Bernard Liautaud — French Businessman

SAP BusinessObjects is an enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence. BusinessObjects was acquired in 2007 by German company SAP AG. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers worldwide in its final earnings release prior to being acquired by SAP. Its flagship product is BusinessObjects XI, with components that provide performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects also offers consulting and education services to help customers deploy its business intelligence projects. Other toolsets enable universes and ready-written reports to be stored centrally and made selectively available to communities of users... (wikipedia)

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.
France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.