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 ...

The move comes less than a week after arch-rival Cognos, now owned by IBM, debuted a major upgrade of its own BI platform, Cognos 8 v4, that emphasizes expanded mobile and "self-service" dashboard and ...

SAP, which acquired Business Objects in early 2008, already offers hosted versions of its business intelligence tools. But the new software is SAP's first real multi-tenant, Software-as-a-Service ...

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 ...