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 ...

Marking perhaps the most significant BI acquisitions to date, SAP plans to buy Business Objects, the largest supplier of BI software, for $6.7 billion. The companies announced the deal Sunday night in ...

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, ...

There’s been a lot of back and forth about this deal, covered admirably by Dennis Howlett, Dan Farber, and other bloggers, but precious little on what it means to blend a premier applications company ...

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.

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 ...

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, 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 ...

Shares of SAP, the world's leading business software maker, tumbled Monday on the news that it would buy Franco-American company Business Objects, as investors feared the price of the transaction was ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. SAP has changed its mind. The German software maker has spent the last few years talking up its organic growth ...

SAP got into business intelligence in a big way with the 2007 acquisition of Business Objects. “For every use case in BI, they’ve got a good tool,” says Forrester Research analyst Boris Evelson.