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Bernard Liautaud co-founded Business Objects in 1990 together with Denis Payre and was chief executive officer until September 2005, then became chairman and chief strategy officer until January 2008. 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.[citation needed] 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[2] that it would acquire Business Objects 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.
Business Objects had two headquarters in San Jose, California, and Paris, France, but their biggest office was in Vancouver, BC. The company's stock was traded on both the Nasdaq and Euronext Paris (BOB) stock exchanges.
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On April 2, 2007 a lawsuit from Informatica (inherited by BOBJ 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 BOBJ as part of Data Integrator), infringed several Informatica patents including U.S. Patent Nos. 6,014,670 and 6,339,775, both titled "Apparatus and Method for Performing Data Transformations in Data Warehousing." BOBJ subsequently released a new version of Data Integrator (11.7.2) removing the infringing product capability.[3][4]
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| Timeline | |
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1990: BusinessObjects launches Skipper SQL 2.0.x.
1994: Launches BusinessObjects v3.0 and goes public on the NASDAQ in September — the first French company listed in the United States.[5]
1996: Enters the OLAP market and launches BusinessObjects v4.0. Bernard Liautaud named one of Business Week's "Hottest Entrepreneurs of the Year."
1997: Introduces WebI thin client, which enables shared information across an extranet.[6]
1999: General Electric (GE) begins working with the company.[citation needed] Business Objects goes public in France on the Premier Marché. Acquires Next Action Technologies.
2000: Acquires OLAP@Work for approximately $15 million[7] and announces MDX Connect from this acquisition.[8]
2001: SAP signs an OEM and reseller agreement to bundle Crystal Reports. Acquires Blue Edge Software.
2001: Signs up its single largest global software licensing transaction with Three formerly known as Hutchison 3G.
2002: Acquires Acta Technologies.[9] Bernard Liautaud named to Business Week's "Stars of Europe," and the company is named one of the "100 Fastest Growing Tech Companies" by Business 2.0.[10] Informatica files a lawsuit against Acta, claiming patent rights infringement.[6]
2003: Acquires Crystal Decisions for $820 million.[11] Business Objects releases Dashboard Manager, BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, and BusinessObjects Performance Manager.
2004: Debuts new combined company with the slogan, "Our Future is Clear, Crystal Clear." Launches Crystal v10 and BusinessObjects v6.5.
2005: Launches BusinessObjects XI. Acquires SRC Software, Infommersion, and Medience. Launches BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Release 2.
2006: Business Objects acquires Firstlogic, Inc and Nsite Software, Inc.[12][13]
2006: Acquires ALG Software (formerly Armstrong Laing Group). Launches Crystal Xcelsius, which allows users to transform Microsoft Excel spreadsheet data into interactive Flash media files.
2007: Continuing its string of acquisitions, Business Objects acquires Cartesis[14] and Inxight.
2007: In October, SAP AG's Chief Executive Henning Kagermann announced a $6.8 billion deal to acquire Business Objects.
2008: In January, SAP absorbs all of Business Objects' offices, and renames the entity "Business Objects, an SAP company". Following the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP, the founder and CEO of Business Objects, Bernard Liautaud, announces his resignation.[15]
2009: Business Objects becomes a division of SAP instead of a separate company. The portfolio brand "SAP BusinessObjects" was created. All former BO employees now officially work for SAP.
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Vendors in the business intelligence space are often categorized into:
The consolidated big four "megavendors", which include SAP BusinessObjects as well as IBM Cognos, Oracle Hyperion, and Microsoft BI.[16]
The independent "pure-play" vendors, the largest being MicroStrategy and SAS.[17]
Well-known BI market surveys and analyses include:
Gartner's BI Magic Quadrant
Business Application Research Center (BARC)'s The BI Survey and The BI Verdict (formerly The OLAP Report)[18]
SAP BusinessObjects is ranked in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for BI. However, SAP raised issue with the 2010 ratings because its platform was trailed behind Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, SAS and MicroStrategy on "ability to execute".[19] Gartner determines the positioning of a BI company's ability to execute based on the overall scores on these categories: "product and service competitiveness, vendor viability, sales execution and pricing, market responsiveness, market execution, customer experience and operations." Gartner's response to SAP's contention stated that the decrease in ratings such as customer experience was likely to be a post-acquisition effect.
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| Products | |
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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 is now GA for most countries:
Common services for deployment and management of BI tools
Reporting
Query and analysis tools for self-service reporting, including DeskI (Full Client, which is being retired) and Web Intelligence (for ad-hoc reporting).
Enterprise Reporting (Crystal Reports) access, format, and deliver information to large populations of users.
Data Visualization (Dashboard Design/Xcelsius) supports creation of flash dashboards and dynamic charts and graphics with data from BO XI, databases, or Excel spreadsheets.
Universe Designer: An administrator tool used to construct Universes or abstracted end-user views of the database; allows pre-defining table joins, object descriptions, and measure object behavior during aggregation. This tool is succeeded by "Information Design Tool" (IDT) in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
Enterprise Information Management (EIM) integrates and improves data to create a trusted foundation for business decisions. Creates a basis for querying and analysis through ETL or EII.
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) helps users align with strategy by tracking and analyzing key business metrics and goals via management dashboards, scorecards, analytics, and alerting.
InfoView web portal, which is succeeded by "BI Workspaces" in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
On-demand BI software (Business Intelligence OnDemand), hosted on the web.
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| References | |
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^ http://www.sap.com/about/newsroom/businessobjects/20080129_006682.epx
^ "SAP to buy Business Objects for $6.8B". The Associated Press. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20071012175940/http://businessweek.com/ap_working/financialnews/D8S4K2580.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story. Retrieved 2007-10-07.
^ "Business Objects Issues Statement on Informatica Lawsuit". Business Objects. http://www.businessobjects.com/news/press_release.asp?id=20070402_006417. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
^ "Business Objects Provides Update on Informatica Litigation". Business Objects. http://www.businessobjects.com/news/press_release.asp?id=20070518_di. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
^ "Bernard Liautaud Joins MySQL Board of Directors". MySQL. http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/generate-article.php?id=2004_30. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
^ a b Howson, Cindi. Business Objects: the complete reference. RR Donnelley, 2003.
^ "Business Objects Acquires OLAP@Work". May 09, 2000. http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/database-development/business-objects-acquires-olap-work.aspx.
^ "Business Objects Announces BusinessObjects MDX Connect, First Product in Enhanced OLAP Strategy". Information Management Online. June 27, 2000. http://www.information-management.com/news/2391-1.html.
^ Whiting, Rick (July 15, 2002). "Business Objects To Buy Acta In Analysis Software Deal". InformationWeek. http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6502780.
^ "Business Objects Named to Business 2.0's 100 Fastest-Growing Technology Companies List.". http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-146407379.html.
^ Evers, Joris (JULY 18, 2003). "Business Objects to acquire Crystal Decisions". InfoWorld. http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/business-objects-acquire-crystal-decisions-689.
^ http://www.infoworld.com/t/business/business-objects-acquires-saas-firm-nsite-208
^ http://www.sap.com/about/press/businessobjects/20061130_005913.epx
^ Whiting, Rick (Apr. 23, 2007). "Business Objects To Acquire Cartesis". CRN. http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/199200495/business-objects-to-acquire-cartesis.htm;jsessionid=-XGs2LgE-630uscU42EZkg**.ecappj01.
^ Havenstein, Heather (January 30, 2008). "Business Objects founder resigns after SAP acquisition". Computer World. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9060200/Business_Objects_founder_resigns_after_SAP_acquisition.
^ Weier, Mary Hayes (April 12, 2008). "How To Choose Among The Four Bright Lights Of BI". InformationWeek. http://www.informationweek.com/news/business_intelligence/information_mgt/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207101021.
^ Weier, Mary Hayes (November 12, 2007). "What IBM's Cognos Acquisition Means For The BI Market And Its Customers". http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202805190.
^ "The BI Survey 9". http://www.bi-survey.com/about-us.html. Retrieved October 19, 2010.
^ Henschen, Doug (February 3, 2010). "SAP Questions Gartner BI Magic Quadrant Ranking". http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/systems_management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222600994.
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