SAP is presenting the Business Objects Influencer Summit, an invitation-only event being held today in Boston. "Strategy to execution" is a key theme across the many numerous presentations. The ...

Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion. The companies announced the deal Sunday night in ...

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 ...

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.

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 the ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Germany’s SAP on Sunday night launched a €4.8bn (£3.3bn) bid for Franco-US software maker Business Objects in ...

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 ...

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, ...