Business Objects S.A has acquired 7 companies of its own. A total of 3 acquisitions came from private equity firms.
Business Objects S.A’s largest acquisition to date was in 2003, when it acquired Crystal Decisions for $820M. Business Objects S.A has acquired in 3 different US states, and 2 countries. The Company’s most targeted sectors include software (86%) and business services (15%).
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157-159 Rue Anatole ,
Levallois-perret,
92300
France,
+33 1 41 25 21 21
Business Objects SA provides business intelligence software and services worldwide.
| Year | ≤ '02 | '03 | '04 | '05 | '06 | '07 | T | |
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| Buy (1.2/yr) | # | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| vol | $65M | $820M | $100M | $56M | $1.0B | |||
| Sell (0.0/yr) | # | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| 7 | ||||||||
| Financial | Deals |
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| Legal | Deals |
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| Buy | # | TOTAL |
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| $100M to $1B | Sign-up to View | |
| < $100M | Sign-up to View | |
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| Largest |
Crystal Decisions $820M (2003-07-18) |
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| Sell | # | Total |
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| > $1B | Sign-up to View | |
| $100M to $1B | Sign-up to View | |
| < $100M | Sign-up to View | |
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Business Objects S.A was acquired by SAP AG on January 29, 2008.
When analyzing the software sector as a whole, according to Mergr, in the last 3 years, there are 748 software companies that have made at least 1 acquisition, 55 have acquired at least 5 companies, and 15 have acquired more than 10 companies.
The most prolific strategic software acquirer over the past 3 years is WiseTech Global, with 14 acquisitions. The most prolific private equity acquirer in the software sector over the past 3 years is Accel-KKR with 12 platform acquisitions.
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