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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAP AGs agreement last week to buy Business Objects SA for $6.8 billion left some of the latter companys users fearing a decline in support and a decrease in emphasis on product development. Analysts ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAP Business Objects is a global business intelligence (BI) software company with more than 35,000 customers – including over 80 per cent of the Fortune 500 – and a network of more than 3000 partners ...

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FRANKFURT, Oct 24 (Reuters) - German software group SAP expects to generate around 300 million euros ($426.4 million) in synergies from its planned acquisition of French data mining group Business ...