"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 ...

Business Objects is offering small businesses access to a bundle of its portal, reporting, and business intelligence software for €1.99 ($2.33) a day under a new leasing program. The company will sell ...

Business intelligence software developer Business Objects is expanding its push into the midmarket, and the vendor's counting on its channel partners for help. The company has unveiled Crystal ...

Business Objects has agreed to acquire fellow business-reports software company Crystal Decisions in a deal valued at $820 million, the latest in a series of buyouts reshaping the business software ...

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 ...

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 ...