Business Objects

Business Objects (frequently shortened in B.O. or BOBJ ) is a company French Informatique . It is world leader in his sphere of activity. It is directed by Bernard Liautaud. October 7th, 2007, the world number 1 of the software packages, German SAP, announces the acquisition of Business Objects with an offer with 42 Euros per action developing the purchase to approximately 4,8 billion euros.

History

  • 1990 : Creation of the company by Bernard Liautaud and Denis Payre
  • 1991: First version called Skipper SQL (and turning under DOS)
  • 1992: Skipper SQL becomes Business Object
  • 1994: Business Object is the first European editor with being with dimensions in Nasdaq
  • 2003: Repurchase of Hook Decisions
  • 2005: Repurchase of SRC Software (tool for financial planning) for 100 million $US
  • 2007: Repurchase of Cartesis in June
  • 2007: SAP Makes a friendly tender offer on Business Objects with 42 Euros.

Trades

English name Business Objects refers to the objects trade (or given trade ) which are in the middle of the decisional Informatique.

Business Objects is an editor of Logiciel S or Progiciel S offering of the solutions in the field of the economic Intelligence, like the Benchmarking, the Reporting, the Datawarehouse S, LTE and the dated mining.

It is an international editor of software of decisional Informatique (or business intelligence ) mainly known for its tool for construction of Requête S and reports/ratios of analysis or instrument panels which uses universe , seen trade on the data of the warehouses.

One of the main competitors of Business Objects is Cognos.

In 2005, Oracle positioned on the market of the decisional one, whereas before she collaborated with Business Objects on this market. Also, since Business Objects it turns to the editor MySQL AB and the world of the Free software for its solutions databases.

Financial data

Stock exchange data

  • Shares quoted with the Paris Bourse
  • Member of the index CAC Next 20
  • Code Value ISIN = FR0004026250
  • Face value = euro
  • Principal shareholders:
(2005): Floating 75.4%, shareholders of Hook Decision 16.7%, Fidelity 6.6%, leaders 1.3%.

See too

Other articles

  • decisional List of decision-making tools
  • Data-processing

External bonds

  • Official site
  • the forum of mutual aid Business Objects

Sources

  • Le Monde * Progilibre.com

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