France-based Business Objects, a maker of software that finds patterns and trends about companies by pulling information from its databases, and Crystal Decisions announced the deal Friday. Crystal ...

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 ...

Early this morning, enterprise software titan SAP announced it had reached an agreement with Business Objects to acquire the business intelligence (BI) and analytics powerhouse in a friendly takeover.

The business intelligence software market took a turn toward consolidation late last week with Business Objects SA’s announced acquisition of rival Crystal Decisions Inc. Business Objects announced ...

Declaring its $6.8 billion acquisition of business intelligence software vendor Business Objects to be complete, SAP Wednesday wasted no time in leveraging its expanded software portfolio by debuting ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Business Objects SA has agreed to acquire Crystal Decisions in a US$820 million cash and stock deal that will create a one-stop shop for business intelligence software products, the ...