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 ...

Business intelligence software maker Business Objects has signalled its intention to join the Eclipse Foundation and move several products onto the open source platform. "You'll see us as a member of ...

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 ...

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 JOSE, Calif. & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2003--Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) ...

(1) A broad category of business processes that are modeled as objects. A business object can be as large as an entire order processing system or a small process within an information system. See ...

Shares in German computer software maker SAP fell more than 5 percent on Monday on market skepticism about the merit of SAP's plans to buy Franco-American peer Business Objects, analysts said. Dealers ...

The move comes less than a week after Oracle completed its $3.3 billion acquisition of Hyperion Solutions and its line of performance management software. It's also the latest in a string of ...

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 ...

Business Objects has agreed to acquire data integration specialist Acta Technology as part of an effort to evolve from a business intelligence (BI) tools provider to an enterprise analytic platform ...

"It's a great product and it's doing great things for people," said Michael Ward, founder and principal of Creative TechnologyTraining Solutions in Shelby Township, Mich. "But they're hurting partners ...

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 ...