SAP and Business Objects have announced the first joint products from their merger, although the planned tight integration of the companies’ software will take longer to achieve. SAP agreed to ...

Business Objects said it is buying Inxight Software, a vendor of tools for analyzing text and other unstructured data, as part of an ongoing effort to broaden its business intelligence product line.

Some users fear that SAP's acquisition of Business Objects SA will lead to dwindling support and a decrease in product upgrades.

Business Objects completed its $1.2 billion purchase of Crystal Decisions, based in Palo Alto, Calif., in December. Each specializes in software that finds patterns and trends in data culled from ...