Business Objects

Business Objects SA provides business intelligence software and services worldwide. The company develops, markets, distributes, and provides solutions that enable organizations to track, understand, and manage enterprise performance within and beyond the enterprise. It offers enterprise information management tools and technologies that enable customers to extract and cleanse data from disparate sources, transform it, and load it into data marts and warehouses. The company also offers information discovery and delivery solutions that includes its business intelligence platform, which provides customers with the technology to enable them to support users inside and outside the organization, and includes the ability to deploy, control, and manage their deployments; reporting tools that facilitate accessing data, formatting it, and delivering it as information to users inside and outside the organization; and query and analysis products that allow end users to interact with business information and answer ad-hoc questions themselves without advanced knowledge of the underlying data sources and structures. In addition, it offers enterprise performance management tools that enable customers to perform ‘what if’ analysis; create capital plans and strategic forecasts; develop general budgeting, payroll planning, and sales planning; and manage financial consolidations and employee productivity. Business Objects SA serves the consumer packaged goods, communications, financial services, government, healthcare, and retail sectors. The company has strategic relationships with Accenture; International Business Machines Corporation; Microsoft Corporation; Oracle Corporation; Capgemini; Deloitte; Teradata; and Bearing Point. The company was incorporated in 1990 and is based in Levallois-Perret, France. As of January 29, 2008, Business Objects SA is a subsidiary of SAP AG.

6 past transactions

Inxight Software

Acquisition in 2007
Inxight Software, Inc. provides enterprise software solutions for information discovery in various languages. It offers software solutions for unstructured information discovery, including text analytics, federated search, extraction, and data cleansing and visualization solutions. Inxight Software, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Washington, D.C.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Boston; New York; London; Munich; Reston, Virginia; and Antwerp, Belgium. As of July 3, 2007, Inxight Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Business Objects SA.

Cartesis

Acquisition in 2007
Cartesis is a global software vendor that provides trusted solutions for driving your company's financial and business performance. Cartesis equips its customers with the control and insight they need to assess and react in today's rapidly changing marketplace. One in five Fortune Global 100 companies rely on Cartesis' powerful technology to unify complex information, people and processes in a single data model that can be applied easily and consistently across multiple geographies and business segments. Cartesis' customers success depends on having meaningful insight to act upon, because great performances start with confidence. Headquartered in Paris, Cartesis has offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Norwalk (CT), Tokyo and Utrecht. The company has more than 1,300 corporate customers and partners worldwide in 25 countries around the globe. Cartesis is privately owned by Apax Partners, Advent Venture Partners, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Partech International.

Nsite LLC

Acquisition in 2006
nSite Software specializes in the integration of manual business process with enterprise automated workflow. The reality of business is constant change, resulting in inevitable variances in any standard operating procedure. Variances give rise to manual process, leaving enterprise workflow systems on-hold. nSite™ Process Server was specifically designed to bring efficiency, order, and consistency to the management of everyday variance processes, returning process outcomes promptly to enterprise workflow systems and restarting standard operating processes. nSite Process Server is the only platform explicitly designed to fill this crucial need, and is a critical component of any BPM strategy. Paul Tabet, a veteran of the enterprise software industry, founded nSite Software in 1998. The company's vision is based on Mr. Tabet's experience as a CIO, managing corporate information systems and applications for large corporations. Frustrated daily by the inefficiencies inherent in the complex, manual nature of decision-making processes, Mr.Tabet created a platform to assist management teams to efficiently manage daily variance processes. That platform, nSite Process Server, has proved to be an invaluable complement to traditional workflow systems. According to Gartner, $360B will be spent in US alone on manual process in 2002 - nSite Software is uniquely positioned as the leader in this critical BPM category.

SRC Software

Acquisition in 2005
SRC Software (www.srcsoftware.com) is the leader in providing flexibility and sophistication for enterprise financial planning and corporate performance management. With more than 2,400 installations in mid- to high-end enterprises, SRC Software's highly-personalized budgeting, payroll planning, and multi-source consolidation and reporting solutions are used by companies such as New Balance, Union Bank of California, C-SPAN, Lands' End, and Caterpillar Logistics Services. SRC Software offers a full complement of financial planning and analysis tools through its unique integration of spreadsheets and industry-leading databases complete with full-scale web deployment. SRC Software is privately held and majority owned by San Francisco-based Vista Equity Partners, a $1.3B private equity fund focused on high technology growth investments. SRC Software is privately held and based in Portland, Oregon with regional offices in New York City and Chicago, and international offices in Brussels, London, Stockholm, and Singapore.

Crystal Decisions

Acquisition in 2003
Crystal Decisions is a Business Intelligence company.

Acta technology

Acquisition in 2002
Acta technology offers enterprises with a real-time data integration platform that enables them to communicate with their customers, suppliers, employees, and partners. Acta technology is acquired by Business Objects. Acta technology was founded in 1997 and is based in Mountain View, California.
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