Business Objects' reseller agreement with SAP fell apart just a few months after the companies fired off a press release last November heralding the deal's renewal. Still, both sides cast the alliance ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

BusinessObjects XI 3.0 offers updates to many of the individual applications that make up the BusinessObjects XI portfolio, including the Crystal Reports 2008 reporting software and Xcelsius 2008 data ...

FRANKFURT, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank has guaranteed the debt portion of SAP's financing for its 4.8 billion-euro ($6.8 billion) acquisition of Franco-American software group Business Objects .

PARIS (Reuters) - German software maker SAP on Monday defended the 20 percent premium it was prepared to fork out to snap up Franco-American software group Business Objects. "The valuation of Business ...