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 ...

SAP and Business Objects yesterday announced the first joint products from their merger, although plans to tightly integrate the product lines of the two firms will take longer to achieve. SAP AG in ...

"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' reseller agreement with SAP fell apart just a few months after the companies fired off a press release last November heralding the deal's renewal. Still, both sides cast the alliance ...