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 ...

Early this morning, enterprise software titan SAP announced it had reached an agreement with Business Objects to acquire the business intelligence (BI) and analytics powerhouse in a friendly takeover.

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 ...

Business Objects, which was just brought into SAP's orbit, announced BusinessObjects™ XI 3.0, which the company said "breaks the barriers of traditional business intelligence (BI)." Every BI company ...

My Irregular colleagues were initially surprised, perhaps best expressed by Zoli Erdos: So much for knowing SAP's DNA and "they don't do big acquisitions" :-) Indeed. But the reality is the large ...

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 ...

In a move to jump-start growth in the business intelligence (BI) arena, SAP AG will acquire Business Objects SA for about $6.78 billion. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor announced Sunday ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The move merges Business Objects' query and analysis, performance management and data integration tools with SAP applications and data sources. Previously, only Business Objects' reporting tools were ...

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, ...