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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Business intelligence software platforms are necessary for organizations to gain valuable insights from their data. These products can be used for generating data visualizations, business intelligence ...

(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 ...

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 ...