by Chris Kanaracus

SAP’S Business Objects (K4)

News
Dec 01, 20111 min
Data Center

Latest version of BI suite tries to fix the disjointed feeling of the user experience.

The company

SAP

Headquarters: Walldorf, Germany, and Palo Alto, Calif.

Employees: 53,500

2010 Revenue: $17.25 billion

Co-CEOs: Jim Hagemann Snabe and Bill McDermott

What They Do: SAP acquired Business Objects in 1997 to establish itself in the hot market for business intelligence software. Business Objects has a robust suite of BI software (now up to version 4.0) and a new BI app for the iPad.