Industry Computer software Website www.sap.com Founded 1990 Number of employees 4,977 Parent organization SAP SE | Fate Acquired by SAP (2007) Founder Bernard Liautaud Acquisition date January 22, 2008 | |
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Key people John Schwarz, CEOBernard Liautaud, Chairman and Founder Products Crystal ReportsBusinessObjects XIXcelsiusData ServicesData IntegratorBusinessObjects Edge BI Revenue $1.077 billion USD (2005) | ||
Demo sap businessobjects business intelligence bi solutions 4 1
SAP BusinessObjects (a.k.a. BO, BOBJ) is an enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence (BI). BusinessObjects was acquired in 2007 by German company SAP AG. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers worldwide in its final earnings release prior to being acquired by SAP. Its flagship product is BusinessObjects XI, with components that provide performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects also offers consulting and education services to help customers deploy its business intelligence projects. Other toolsets enable universes (the BusinessObjects name for a semantic layer between the physical data store and the front-end reporting tool) and ready-written reports to be stored centrally and made selectively available to communities of the users.
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- Demo sap businessobjects business intelligence bi solutions 4 1
- Sap businessobjects bi 4 1 installation part 1
- History
- Legal
- Timeline
- References
Sap businessobjects bi 4 1 installation part 1
History
Bernard Liautaud co-founded in 1990 together with Denis Payre, and was chief until September 2005, when he became chairman and chief until January 2008. The concept of and its initial implementation came from Jean-Michel Cambot. According to Bernard Liautaud, Jean-Michel is an extraordinarily creative developer, someone who authored the initial concept of BusinessObjects.
In 1990, the first customer, Coface, was signed. The company went public on NASDAQ in September 1994, making it the first European software company listed in the United States. In 2002, the company made Time Magazine Europe's Digital Top 25 of 2002 and were BusinessWeek Europe Stars of Europe.
On 7 October 2007, SAP AG announced that it would acquire BusinessObjects for $6.8B. As of 22 January 2008, the corporation is fully operated by SAP; this is seen as part of a growing consolidation trend in the business software industry, with Oracle acquiring Hyperion in 2007 and IBM acquiring Cognos in 2008.
BusinessObjects had two headquarters in San Jose, California, and Paris, France, but their biggest office was in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The company's stock was traded on both the Nasdaq and Euronext Paris (BOB) stock exchanges.
Legal
On April 2, 2007, a lawsuit from Informatica (inherited by BusinessObjects from the purchase of Acta Technologies in 2002) resulted in an award of $25 million in damages to Informatica for patent infringement. The lawsuit related to embedded data flows with one input and one output. Informatica asserted that the ActaWorks product (now sold by BusinessObjects as part of Data Integrator), infringed several Informatica patents including US Patent Nos. 6,014,670 and 6,339,775, both titled "Apparatus and Method for Performing Data Transformations in Data Warehousing." BusinessObjects subsequently released a new version of Data Integrator (11.7.2) which removed the infringing product capability.