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, ...

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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 ...

SAPs announcement on Sunday [Oct. 7] that it plans to acquire business intelligence software vendor Business Objects for $6.8 billion has left the software industry in turmoil with conflicting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 and Business Objects yesterday announced the first joint products from their merger, although plans to tightly integrate the product lines of the two firms will take longer to achieve. SAP AG in ...