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, the world’s largest provider of business software, has agreed to buy Business Objects for €4.8 billion euros ($6.8 billion). Business Objects is a business intelligence software company with some ...

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, ...

This blog initially misstated what day SAP announced it would acquire Business Objects. It is Sunday. If you're an enterprise looking for a choice of vendors, your choices just got constrained even ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- SAP AG has agreed to acquire software maker Business Objects SA in an all-cash deal valued at more than $6.8 billion, the two companies announced Sunday. Under the terms ...

"Overall, we see it as a positive. As a Business Objects channel partner we should have a bigger customer base to sell into now," said Paul Grill, principal with Infosol, a Phoenix-based business ...

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.

Shares of SAP, the world's leading business software maker, tumbled Monday on the news that it would buy Franco-American company Business Objects, as investors feared the price of the transaction was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...