Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business ... with SQL Server Analysis Services. For its part Business Objects has its own hooks into Microsoft ...

SAP and Business Objects have a combined ecosystem of 6,000 partners that will be developing products and services and developing the market, Schwarz said. The two companies will hit the ground ...

Although both are pre-Web 2.0 software focused companies, SAP and Business Objects have started providing online services that are an extension of their main products. SAP has focused on online ...

SAP, the company known for building rather than acquiring technology, did an about-face this week, announcing its intention to acquire Business Objects, one of the largest point-solution ISVs in ...

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 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 ...

SAP just bought Business Objects. CNET Blog Network contributor Matt Asay asks: What does this mean for the industry and for open-source companies? Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who ...

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 ...

Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects ... software that integrates with SQL Server Analysis Services. For its part Business Objects has its ...