This morning, after digesting Oracle's acquisition of BEA and Sun's consumption of MySQL, I headed down SAP's Palo Alto offices to hear how the enterprise software giant will digest its latest ...

SAP announced yesterday that it has successfully completed the share purchase requirements needed to acquire Business Objects. Coming on the heels of that announcement, SAP held a special briefing for ...

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 ...

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 ...

So SAP swoops on Business Objects, and yet another segment of the market sees independent competition disappear, leaving just one independent, in the form of Cognos, and a handful of niche players ...

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 ...

SAP has made its biggest purchase ever with the approximately $6.8 billion acquisition of business intelligence firm Business Objects. In a dramatic departure from its previous strategy of relying on ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 AG has agreed to acquire software maker Business Objects SA in a tender offer valued at more than 4.8 billion euros ($6.8 billion), the companies said Sunday. Under the terms of the agreement, SAP ...