SAP BusinessObjects (BO or BOBJ) is a software company company, specializing in business intelligence (BI). BusinessObjects was obtained in 2007 by German company SAP AG. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers in its final revenue release before it was acquired by SAP. Its flagship product is BusinessObjects XI, with components that provide performance management, planning, reporting, request and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects also offers consulting and education services to help customers use their business intelligence projects. Another toolset allows the universe (BusinessObjects name for semantic layers between physical data storage and front-end reporting tools) and write-up reports to be centrally stored and made selectively available to the user community.
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Histori
Bernard Liautaud co-founded in 1990 along with Denis Payre, and became chief until September 2005, when he became chairman and chief until January 2008. The BusinessObjects concept and its initial implementation came from Jean-Michel Cambot.
In 1990, the first customer, Coface, was signed. The company became a public company in NASDAQ in September 1994, making it the first registered European software company in the United States. In 2002, the company made Time Magazine Digital Top 25 Europe 2002 and was BusinessWeek Europe Stars of Europe.
On October 7, 2007, SAP AG announced that it would acquire BusinessObjects for $ 6.8B. On January 22, 2008, the company is fully operated by SAP; this is seen as part of the growing consolidation trend in the business software industry, with Oracle acquiring Hyperion in 2007 and IBM acquiring Cognos in 2008.
BusinessObjects has two headquarters in San Jose, California, and Paris, France, but their largest office is in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The shares of the company are traded on the Nasdaq and Euronext Paris (BOB) stock exchanges.
Legal
On April 2, 2007, a lawsuit from Informatica (inherited by BusinessObjects of Acta Technologies purchase in 2002) resulted in an award of $ 25 million in damages to Informatica for patent infringement. The claim is related to the embedded data stream with one input and one output. Informatica confirmed that the ActaWorks product (now sold by BusinessObjects as part of Data Integrator), violated several Informatica patents including US Pat. 6,014,670 and 6,339,775, both titled "Apparatus and Methods for Transforming Data in Data Warehousing." BusinessObjects then released a new version of Data Integrator (11.7.2) that removes infringing product abilities.
Timeline
- 1990: BusinessObjects launches Skipper SQL 2.0.x. 1994: Launched BusinessObjects v3.0 and became public on NASDAQ in September - the first French software company registered in the United States.
- 1996: Enter the OLAP market and launch BusinessObjects v4.0. Bernard Liautaud named one of "BusinessWeek's Greatest Businesses of the Year".
- 1997: Introducing thin WebI client, which allows sharing of information across extranets.
- 1999: General Electric (GE) starts working with the company. BusinessObjects go public in France on the Premier MarchÃÆ'Â ©. Acquired Next Action Technologies.
- 2000: Acquired OLAP @ Worked out about $ 15 million and announced MDX Connect from this acquisition.
- 2001: SAP signs OEM and reseller agreements to bundle Crystal Reports. Acquired Blue Edge Software.
- 2001: Signed the largest global software licensing transaction with Three, formerly known as Hutchison 3G. The transaction was led by Edwin Moore Momife and Jon Stubbington of the British Company.
- 2002: Acquires Acta Technologies. Bernard Liautaud named it the "European Star" of the Company, and the company was named one of the "100 Fastest Growing Technology Companies" by Business 2.0. Informatica filed a lawsuit against Acta, claiming patent infringement.
- 2003: Acquired Crystal Decision of $ 820 million. BusinessObjects released Dashboard Manager, BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, and BusinessObjects Performance Manager.
- 2004: Starts a new joint company with the slogan, "Our Clear Future, Crystal Clear." Launches Crystal v10 and BusinessObjects v6.5.
- 2005: Launches BusinessObjects XI. Acquired Software, Infommersion, and SRC Mediation. Launched BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Release 2.
- 2006: BusinessObjects acquired Firstlogic, Inc. and Nsite Software, Inc.
- 2006: Acquired ALG Software (formerly Armstrong Laing Group). Launch Crystal Xcelsius, which lets users convert Microsoft Excel spreadsheet data into interactive Flash media files.
- 2007: Continuing the series of acquisitions, BusinessObjects acquires Cartesis and Inxight.
- 2007: In October, SAP AG Chief Executive Henning Kagermann announced a $ 6.8 billion deal to acquire BusinessObjects.
- 2008: In January, SAP absorbs all BusinessObjects offices, and renames entities "BusinessObjects, a SAP company". After the acquisition of BusinessObjects by SAP, BusinessObjects founder and CEO, Bernard Liautaud, announced his resignation.
- 2009: BusinessObjects becomes part of SAP and not a separate company. The portfolio brand "SAP BusinessObjects" has been created. Some of the former employees of BusinessObjects are now officially working for SAP.
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References
External links
- SAP BusinessObjects portfolio
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