Business Objects is offering small businesses access to a bundle of its portal, reporting, and business intelligence software for €1.99 ($2.33) a day under a new leasing program. The company will sell ...

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 ...

"Overall, we see it as a positive. As a Business Objects channel partner we should have a bigger customer base to sell into now," said Paul Grill, principal with Infosol, a Phoenix-based business ...

Business intelligence software developer Business Objects is expanding its push into the midmarket, and the vendor's counting on its channel partners for help. The company has unveiled Crystal ...

Business Objects SA last week said it plans to release a unified set of data analysis and reporting tools next year, combining its business intelligence software with the products developed by Crystal ...

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 ...

IBM Corp. is increasing the scope of its existing relationship with business intelligence (BI) software vendor Business Objects SA with a particular focus on midmarket customers. The two companies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...