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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s been a lot of back and forth about this deal, covered admirably by Dennis Howlett, Dan Farber, and other bloggers, but precious little on what it means to blend a premier applications company ...

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Marking perhaps one of the most significant business intelligence (BI) acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion. The companies ...

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 ...

Business Objects SA founder Bernard Liautaud resigned as chairman and chief strategy officer at the company following the closing of its acquisition by SAP AG earlier this month. Liautaud, who founded ...

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 ...

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 ...