The local division of business intelligence vendor Business Objects has outlined ambitious goals for the Australian market as it settles into its new relationship with parent SAP. "Anything less than ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- SAP AG has agreed to acquire software maker Business Objects SA in an all-cash deal valued at more than $6.8 billion, the two companies announced Sunday. Under the terms ...

Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion. The companies announced the deal Sunday night in ...

SAP and Business Objects have announced the first joint products from their merger, although the planned tight integration of the companies’ software will take longer to achieve. SAP agreed to pay ...

Oracle bought Hyperion, and now SAP has made this bold BI move. Here's what analysts say CIOs should be asking themselves and their vendor reps. No one is ever going to mistake SAP for Oracle.

This morning, after digesting Oracle's acquisition of BEA and Sun's consumption of MySQL, I headed down SAP's Palo Alto offices to hear how the enterprise software giant will digest its latest ...

Business Objects' reseller agreement with SAP fell apart just a few months after the companies fired off a press release last November heralding the deal's renewal. Still, both sides cast the alliance ...

SAP got into business intelligence in a big way with the 2007 acquisition of Business Objects. “For every use case in BI, they’ve got a good tool,” says Forrester Research analyst Boris Evelson.

SAP announced Sunday afternoon it plans to acquire Business Objects in a cash deal valued at slightly more than $6.8 billion. The acquisition, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008, ...