This morning, after digesting Oracle's acquisition of BEA and Sun's consumption of MySQL, I headed down SAP's Palo Alto offices to hear how the enterprise software giant will digest its latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- SAP AG has agreed to acquire software maker Business Objects SA in an all-cash deal valued at more than $6.8 billion, the two companies announced Sunday. Under the terms ...

Business Objects' reseller agreement with SAP fell apart just a few months after the companies fired off a press release last November heralding the deal's renewal. Still, both sides cast the alliance ...

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.