SAP and Business Objects have announced the first joint products from their merger, although the planned tight integration of the companies’ software will take longer to achieve. SAP agreed to pay ...

Business Objects CEO John Schwartz delivered the keynote at Tuesday's SAP TechEd session and the presentation carried the usual theme. Using business intelligence to tie data together across the ...

SAP has unveiled a new version of its Business Objects BI (business intelligence) software suite that features support for more than 140 data sources and the promise of more stable deployments.

The local division of business intelligence vendor Business Objects has outlined ambitious goals for the Australian market as it settles into its new relationship with parent SAP. "Anything less than ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...