Business intelligence is an acronym for all IT solutions that work together to extract, transform, and load data, as well as to analyze and report data. As well, Business Objects (BO) is an industry ...

The local division of business intelligence vendor Business Objects has outlined ambitious goals for the Australian market as it settles into its new relationship with parent SAP. "Anything less than ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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.

Oracle bought Hyperion, and now SAP has made this bold BI move. Here's what analysts say CIOs should be asking themselves and their vendor reps. No one is ever going to mistake SAP for Oracle.

update The Australian user groups for SAP and Business Objects will merge following the pair's marriage earlier this year, it was announced today. This article was updated to note that the SAP ...

German applications giant SAP has announced that it is to acquire Paris-headquartered business intelligence provider Business Objects for 4.8 billion ($6.8 billion). Rumours of the deal were leaked by ...

SAP, the company known for building rather than acquiring technology, did an about-face this week, announcing its intention to acquire Business Objects, one of the largest point-solution ISVs in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Germany’s SAP on Sunday night launched a €4.8bn (£3.3bn) bid for Franco-US software maker Business Objects in ...

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 ...