Business Objects

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Business Objects is a software company headquartered in San Jose and Paris and a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions.

Business Objects has more than 39,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company is listed on the NASDAQ and the Euro Euronext Paris. In the German speaking Business Objects with offices in Munich, Frankfurt / Main, Dusseldorf, Zurich, Nyon (Switzerland) and Vienna is represented (A).

Its business areas include the establishment of corporate information infrastructures and the development of business intelligence (BI) solutions for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, enterprise information management, financial planning and budgeting, visualization and for use industry-and function-specific analysis and management solutions.

SAP announced on October 7, 2007, to want to take over Business Objects for a total of more than EUR 4.8 billion. The European Commission has cleared the proposed company takeover under the EU Merger Regulation on 27 November 2007. Since 1 July 2008, the Business Objects Germany GmbH is legally incorporated & Co. KG in Germany, SAP AG.

Products and Solutions

With BusinessObjects XI Release 4 Business Objects offers a business intelligence platform. The solution includes products for data integration, reporting, query and analysis, financial planning, budgeting and consolidation, enterprise information management, visualization, and performance management and provides users with an enterprise-wide information platform.

It is planned to integrate the Business Objects tools as a front end for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence. This is already implemented in the current version of Xcelsius 2008.

According to a study SAP BusinessObjects occupied in 2009, 1st place at business intelligence software sales in Germany with 110 million euros in sales.