Premium Company Profile: Business Objects S.A.

Introduction

Business Objects was acquired by SAP in January 2008 and operates as an individual business unit of SAP. The companies have given a hint about their plans to integrate their operations by announcing nine joint products as of January 2008.

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Highlights

Business Objects offers business intelligence related software and services to enterprises. It offers solutions for all major industries including financial services retail consumer-packaged goods and healthcare and public sector. The company offers these solutions under the brands BusinessObjects and Crystal Reports. For the fiscal year 2007 the company garnered about 51% of its revenues from Americas 41.9% from EMEA and 7.2% from the Asia-Pacific regions. SAP acquired a majority ownership in Business Objects through a friendly takeover bid which was completed in January 2008. SAP acquired about 87.2% of the share capital along with the total voting rights of Business Objects. Currently Business Objects operates as a majority owned subsidiary of SAP.

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