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 ...

The move comes less than a week after Oracle completed its $3.3 billion acquisition of Hyperion Solutions and its line of performance management software. It's also the latest in a string of ...

Business Objects today announced an upgraded version of its business intelligence software that lets mobile users, with a BlackBerry or other handheld device, view reports and initiate business ...

Business Objects is in the midst of an overhaul aimed at shoring up its position as the leading vendor in the BI field, a market bigger vendors like Microsoft and Oracle are looking to carve off ...

Business Objects will acquire Nsite Software, which develops a software-as-a-service delivery platform, in a move to offer more of its own products over the Internet, the companies announced. Business ...

Despite evidence that Business Objects was once a takeover target of Oracle, the business intelligence specialist has clung to its independence through a period of consolidation in the software ...

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 ...

IBM Corp. is increasing the scope of its existing relationship with business intelligence (BI) software vendor Business Objects SA with a particular focus on midmarket customers. The two companies ...

Business Objects SA is turning an eye toward the midmarket with a newly formed business unit and a new business-intelligence product line tailored for companies with annual revenue under $1billion.