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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 and Business Objects have announced the first joint products from their merger, although the planned tight integration of the companies’ software will take longer to achieve. SAP agreed to pay ...

SAP and Business Objects yesterday announced the first joint products from their merger, although plans to tightly integrate the product lines of the two firms will take longer to achieve. SAP AG in ...

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 ...

SAP's acquisition of Business Objects makes some business sense, and it could also bring business intelligence tools down to the regular office worker, analysts say. Earlier this week, German ...

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 ...

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 ...