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 ...

"Overall, we see it as a positive. As a Business Objects channel partner we should have a bigger customer base to sell into now," said Paul Grill, principal with Infosol, a Phoenix-based business ...

Shares in German computer software maker SAP fell more than 5 percent on Monday on market skepticism about the merit of SAP's plans to buy Franco-American peer Business Objects, analysts said. Dealers ...

Business Objects has agreed to acquire fellow business-reports software company Crystal Decisions in a deal valued at $820 million, the latest in a series of buyouts reshaping the business software ...

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SAP seems particularly keen to get resellers of its All-in-One application suite for small and midmarket customers to add the Business Objects business intelligence software to their product ...

Business Objects is offering small businesses access to a bundle of its portal, reporting, and business intelligence software for €1.99 ($2.33) a day under a new leasing program. The company will sell ...

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 ...

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Business Objects SA last week said it plans to release a unified set of data analysis and reporting tools next year, combining its business intelligence software with the products developed by Crystal ...

Business Objects has agreed to acquire fellow business-reports software company Crystal Decisions in a deal valued at $820 million, the latest in a series of buyouts reshaping the business software ...