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 ...

Business Objects announced that it is ready to merge its business-reports software with that of Crystal Decision, the rival it purchased last year. The France-based maker of data analysis software for ...

Paris-based Business Objects said it will issue approximately 26.5 million shares of common stock along with $300 million in cash, making its acquisition of the privately-held Crystal Decisions valued ...

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 ...

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 SA last week announced a business intelligence software upgrade that provides initial ties between its products and the reporting tools the company acquired when it bought Crystal ...

MINNEAPOLIS, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Woodburn Group is proud to announce that they have received the Americas 2006 Authorized Education Partner of the Year Award from Business Objects. They were ...

Broadening its portfolio of business intelligence software offerings, Business Objects has agreed to buy technology for analyzing unstructured data, added enhancements to its financial performance ...

MIAMI BEACH—Business intelligence software vendor Business Objects Americas Inc. last week unveiled long-term plans to enhance the collaborative nature of its software and to enable users to more ...

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