Business Objects has agreed to acquire fellow business-reports software company Crystal Decisions in a deal valued at $820 million, the latest in a series of buyouts reshaping the business software ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Business Objects SA has agreed to acquire Crystal Decisions in a US$820 million cash and stock deal that will create a one-stop shop for business intelligence software products, the ...

On Wednesday French business intelligence (BI) vendor Business Objects released the latest version of its software platform, which it claims finally integrates much of the functionality it gained from ...

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The business intelligence software company comes in at the high end of the range it preannounced a few weeks ago. reported second-quarter results Thursday, beating analysts' estimates by a penny and ...

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 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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