sa industry computer software fate acquired by sap 2007 founded 1990 headquarters san jose california and paris france key people john schwarz ceo bernard liautaud chairman and founder products crystal reports businessobjects xi xcelsius data services data integrator businessobjects edge bi revenue 1.077 billion usd 2005 number of employees 4 977 as of q2 2006 website www.sap.com sap businessobjects a.k.a. bo bobj is an enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence bi . businessobjects was acquired in 2007 by german company sap ag . the company claimed more than 46 000 customers worldwide in its final earnings release prior to being acquired by sap . 1 its flagship product is businessobjects xi with components that provide performance management planning reporting query and analysis and enterprise information management . businessobjects also offers consulting and education services to help customers deploy its business intelligence projects . other toolsets enable universes the businessobjects name for a semantic layer between the physical data store and the front end reporting tool and ready written reports to be stored centrally and made selectively available to communities of the users . contents 1 history 1.1 legal 1.2 timeline 2 references 3 external links history edit bernard liautaud fr co founded in 1990 together with denis payre fr and was chief until september 2005 when he became chairman and chief until january 2008 . the concept of and its initial implementation came from jean michel cambot . according to bernard liautaud jean michel is an extraordinarily creative developer someone who authored the initial concept of businessobjects . 2 unreliable source 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 3 that it would acquire businessobjects for 6.8 b. 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 . businessobjects had two headquarters in san jose california and paris france but their biggest office was in vancouver canada . the company s stock was traded on both the nasdaq and euronext paris bob stock exchanges . legal edit on april 2 2007 a lawsuit from informatica inherited by businessobjects 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 businessobjects as part of data integrator infringed several informatica patents including us patent nos. 6 014 670 and 6 339 775 both titled apparatus and method for performing data transformations in data warehousing . businessobjects subsequently released a new version of data integrator 11.7.2 which removed the infringing product capability . 4 5 timeline edit 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 . 6 1996 enters the olap market and launches businessobjects v4 .0 . bernard liautaud named one of businessweek s hottest entrepreneurs of the year . 1997 introduces webi thin client which enables shared information across an extranet . 7 1999 general electric ge begins working with the company . citation needed businessobjects goes public in france on the premier march . acquires next action technologies . 2000 acquires olap work for approximately 15 million 8 and announces mdx connect from this acquisition . 9 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 . transaction was led by edwin moore momife and jon stubbington of the uk company . 2002 acquires acta technologies . 10 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 . 11 informatica files a lawsuit against acta claiming patent rights infringement . 7 2003 acquires crystal decisions for 820 million . 12 businessobjects 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 businessobjects acquires firstlogic inc and nsite software inc. 13 14 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 businessobjects acquires cartesis 15 and inxight . 2007 in october sap ag s chief executive henning kagermann announced a 6.8 billion deal to acquire businessobjects . 2008 in january sap absorbs all of businessobjects offices and renames the entity businessobjects an sap company . following the acquisition of businessobjects by sap the founder and ceo of businessobjects bernard liautaud announces his resignation . 16 2009 businessobjects becomes a division of sap instead of a separate company . the portfolio brand sap businessobjects was created . some former businessobjects employees now officially work for sap . references edit press and news about sap ag . sap . retrieved 2014 04 09 . liautaud bernard 2008 11 20 . bernard liautaud credits jean michel cambot for business objects concept . linkedin . retrieved 2015 12 11 . sap to buy businessobjects for 6.8 b . associated press . archived from the original on 2007 10 12 . retrieved 2007 10 07 . businessobjects issues statement on informatica lawsuit . businessobjects . archived from the original on 26 july 2012 . retrieved 2007 06 01 . businessobjects vs. informatica . bernard liautaud joins mysql board of directors . mysql . retrieved october 18 2010 . a b howson cindi . businessobjects the complete reference . rr donnelley 2003 . businessobjects acquires olap work . may 9 2000 . businessobjects announces businessobjects mdx connect first product in enhanced olap strategy . information management online . june 27 2000 . whiting rick july 15 2002 . businessobjects to buy acta in analysis software deal . informationweek . businessobjects named to business 2.0 s 100 fastest growing technology companies list . . evers joris july 18 2003 . businessobjects to acquire crystal decisions . infoworld . kirk jeremy 2006 12 01 . businessobjects acquires saas firm nsite business . infoworld . retrieved 2014 04 09 . press and news about sap ag . sap . retrieved 2014 04 09 . whiting rick apr 23 2007 . businessobjects to acquire cartesis . crn . havenstein heather january 30 2008 . businessobjects founder resigns after sap acquisition . computer world . external links edit sap businessobjects portfolio v t e sap se founders dietmar hopp hans werner hector hasso plattner klaus tschira claus wellenreuther board of directors hasso plattner chairman lars lamad deputy chairman pekka ala pietil thomas bamberger panagiotis bissiritsas wilhelm haarmann peter koop christiane kuntz mayr bernard liautaud gerhard maier hartmut mehdorn hans bernd meier joachim milberg erhard schipporeit stefan schulz klaus wucherer executive board bill mcdermott robert enslin michael kleinemeier bernd leukert gerhard oswald luka mucic michael kleinemeier stefan ries steve singh technologies sap hana sap netweaver service oriented architecture enterprise modeling application lifecycle management enterprise mobility application lifecycle management major locations corporate emea headquarters walldorf germany americas hq newtown square usa asia pacific hq singapore major sap labs locations r & d bangalore india palo alto usa s o leopoldo brazil ra anana israel shanghai china sophia antipolis france montreal canada acquisitions ariba concur technologies sap business objects success factors sybase sponsorships andy roddick cirque du soleil paula creamer ernie els new york yankees sap open san jose sharks sony ericsson open tribeca film festival see also asug opensap sap community network sap press retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title businessobjects & oldid 742518581 categories companies established in 1990software companies of francesap se acquisitionshidden categories interlanguage link template link 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