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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

Enterprise software giant SAP said it would acquire business intelligence software developer Business Objects in a cash deal valued at about $6.8 billion. SAP is offering 42 euros ($59.18) per share.

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 ...