My Irregular colleagues were initially surprised, perhaps best expressed by Zoli Erdos: So much for knowing SAP's DNA and "they don't do big acquisitions" :-) Indeed. But the reality is the large ...

SAP AG has agreed to acquire software maker Business Objects SA in a tender offer valued at more than 4.8 billion euros ($6.8 billion), the companies said Sunday. Under the terms of the agreement, SAP ...

With SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence, you can report, visualise, and share data from any source. In its role as an on-premise BI layer for SAP’s Business Technology Platform, it transforms ...

When it comes to enterprise software, SAP and Oracle are two of the biggest players, and their BI offerings are the go-to tools for many companies. See how SAP BusinessObjects and Oracle BI stack up.

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, which acquired Business Objects in early 2008, already offers hosted versions of its business intelligence tools. But the new software is SAP's first real multi-tenant, Software-as-a-Service ...

SAP added to its cloud BusinessObjects analytics lineup with support for machine learning and big data sources such as Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and SparkSQL as well as interfaces such as the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...