DALLAS — Executives from Business Objects SA this week talked up dashboard technology features at the company’s International Users Conference while rallying support for standardization on its new ...

The move comes less than a week after arch-rival Cognos, now owned by IBM, debuted a major upgrade of its own BI platform, Cognos 8 v4, that emphasizes expanded mobile and "self-service" dashboard and ...

In a deal worth about $100 million, Business Objects purchases SRC Software to strengthen its corporate performance-management products. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

SAP Business Objects is a global business intelligence (BI) software company with more than 35,000 customers – including over 80 per cent of the Fortune 500 – and a network of more than 3000 partners ...

On Tuesday Cognos will formally unveil ReportNet, a query and reporting engine that has been written to support Web services, Java, and XML. At the same time, Business Objects will unveil Version 6.1 ...

SAP got into business intelligence in a big way with the 2007 acquisition of Business Objects. “For every use case in BI, they’ve got a good tool,” says Forrester Research analyst Boris Evelson.