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 ...

This morning, after digesting Oracle's acquisition of BEA and Sun's consumption of MySQL, I headed down SAP's Palo Alto offices to hear how the enterprise software giant will digest its latest ...

SAP has made its biggest purchase ever with the approximately $6.8 billion acquisition of business intelligence firm Business Objects. In a dramatic departure from its previous strategy of relying on ...

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 ...

Price details on SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence pricing starts at $14,000. The annual fee is $800. There is no free version of the software. Is SAP ...

Business Objects delivers the most complete BI suite for reporting and analytics across SAP R/3, SAP BW, and SAP NetWeaver. More than 1,400 SAP customers worldwide use Business Objects solutions with ...

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.

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 AG (NYSE: SAP) and Business Objects S.A. (Nasdaq:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB) today announced that the companies have reached an agreement that will bring together two of ...

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 ...

So SAP swoops on Business Objects, and yet another segment of the market sees independent competition disappear, leaving just one independent, in the form of Cognos, and a handful of niche players ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. SAP has changed its mind. The German software maker has spent the last few years talking up its organic growth ...