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 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 ...

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 ...

This blog initially misstated what day SAP announced it would acquire Business Objects. It is Sunday. If you're an enterprise looking for a choice of vendors, your choices just got constrained even ...

After leaving his post as CEO of SAP’s Business Objects division about three years ago, John Schwarz had a revelation. Before him, Schwarz said in a recent interview, was an opportunity to “redo BI ...

The deal is the latest in a wave of consolidation that's been sweeping the business intelligence industry this year, including Oracle's $3.3 billion buyout of Hyperion in April and Cognos' pending ...

At its recent SAPPHIRE 09 conference, SAP AG announced SAP Business Objects Explorer, a new software product that brings together search and navigation capabilities from the SAP BusinessObjects ...