SAP announced yesterday that it has successfully completed the share purchase requirements needed to acquire Business Objects. Coming on the heels of that announcement, SAP held a special briefing for ...

SAP, the world’s largest provider of business software, has agreed to buy Business Objects for €4.8 billion euros ($6.8 billion). Business Objects is a business intelligence software company with some ...

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 ...

This blog initially misstated what day SAP announced it would acquire Business Objects. It is Sunday. If you're an enterprise looking for a choice of vendors, your choices just got constrained even ...

SAP has agreed to buy Business Objects for about €4.8 billion ($6.78 billion), a surprise move that breaks with SAP’s traditional strategy of avoiding large company acquisitions. The deal, announced ...

SAP has made its biggest purchase ever with the approximately $6.8 billion acquisition of business intelligence firm Business Objects. In a dramatic departure from its previous strategy of relying on ...

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.

German applications giant SAP has announced that it is to acquire Paris-headquartered business intelligence provider Business Objects for 4.8 billion ($6.8 billion). Rumours of the deal were leaked by ...

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 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, ...

Business Objects delivers the most complete BI suite for reporting and analytics across SAP R/3, SAP BW, and SAP NetWeaver. More than 1,400 SAP customers worldwide use Business Objects solutions with ...

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 ...