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 ...

SAP just bought Business Objects. CNET Blog Network contributor Matt Asay asks: What does this mean for the industry and for open-source companies? Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has ...

Business intelligence (BI) vendor -- and SAP acquisition target -- Business Objects made two noteworthy product announcements at its annual Insight user conference in Orlando, Fla., this week. On ...

My Irregular colleagues were initially surprised, perhaps best expressed by Zoli Erdos: So much for knowing SAP's DNA and "they don't do big acquisitions" :-) Indeed. But the reality is the large ...

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 ...

This week’s bombshell that SAP will acquire Business Objects for $6.7 billion is perhaps the largest milestone yet in the business intelligence, analytics, reporting and corporate performance ...

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 ...

When it comes to enterprise software, SAP and Oracle are two of the biggest players, and their BI offerings are the go-to tools for many companies. See how SAP BusinessObjects and Oracle BI stack up.

Business Objects, a provider of business intelligence (BI) software, has recently added a new application to its Edge Series for midmarket businesses called Edge Planning. With this functionality, the ...

On Tuesday Cognos will formally unveil ReportNet, a query and reporting engine that has been written to support Web services, Java, and XML. At the same time, Business Objects will unveil Version 6.1 ...

No audio available for this content. Insurance company Munich Re uses spatial data-processing capabilities in SAP HANA with predictive analytics to assess risk and identify natural hazard profiles for ...

New partnership empowers organizations with access to rich data insights required to power AI apps that accelerate businesses outcomes Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, and SAP SE, a ...