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BusinessObjects

Business Objects (BO, BOBJ, or BObjects) was an enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence (BI). Business Objects was acquired in 2007 by German company SAP. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers in its final earnings release prior to being acquired by SAP. Its flagship product was BusinessObjects XI (or BOXI), with…

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Founded
1990; 36 years ago (1990)
Industry
Software
Headquarters
San Jose, California and Paris, France
Fate
Acquired by SAP (2007; 19 years ago (2007))
Key people
John G. Schwarz, CEO Bernard Liautaud, Chairman and Founder
Products
Business intelligence tools Data visualization tools Analytics tools Data warehousing tools ETL tools

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Edges30
Triples83
Avg. degree1.94
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related to Timeline · 72
BusinessObjects → Acquires Acta Technologies, Acquires ALG Software, Acquires Blue Edge Software, Acquires Crystal Decisions, Acquires Next Action Technologies, Acquires OLAP, Acquires SRC Software, Acta, Armstrong Laing Group, Bernard Liautaud, Business, Business Objects, Business Week's, BusinessObjects Enterprise, BusinessObjects Performance Manager, BusinessWeek's, Cartesis, CEO, Clear, Continuing
related to External links · 4
BusinessObjects → Business Objects, Historical, SAP BusinessObjects, SEC
Fate · 1
BusinessObjects → Acquired by SAP (2007; 19 years ago (2007))
Founded · 1
BusinessObjects → 1990; 36 years ago (1990)
Headquarters · 1
BusinessObjects → San Jose, California and Paris, France
Industry · 1
BusinessObjects → Software
Key people · 1
BusinessObjects → John G. Schwarz, CEO Bernard Liautaud, Chairman and Founder
Products · 1
BusinessObjects → Business intelligence tools Data visualization tools Analytics tools Data warehousing tools ETL tools
Website · 1
BusinessObjects → www.sap.com

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business objects sap company software acquires 2007 data launches bernard liautaud enterprise intelligence acquired citation needed crystal product xi customers

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BusinessObjectsFateAcquired by SAP (2007; 19 years ago (2007))1.00infobox
BusinessObjectsFounded1990; 36 years ago (1990)1.00infobox
BusinessObjectsHeadquartersSan Jose, California and Paris, France1.00infobox
BusinessObjectsIndustrySoftware1.00infobox
BusinessObjectsKey peopleJohn G. Schwarz, CEO Bernard Liautaud, Chairman and Founder1.00infobox
BusinessObjectsProductsBusiness intelligence tools Data visualization tools Analytics tools Data warehousing tools ETL tools1.00infobox
BusinessObjectsWebsitewww.sap.com1.00infobox
BusinessObjectsrelated to External linksSAP BusinessObjects0.60section
BusinessObjectsrelated to External linksHistorical0.60section
BusinessObjectsrelated to External linksBusiness Objects0.60section
BusinessObjectsrelated to External linksSEC0.60section
BusinessObjectsrelated to TimelineBusiness Objects0.60section

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