M&A Deal Summary

Business Objects S.A Acquires Crystal Decisions

On July 18, 2003, Business Objects S.A acquired software company Crystal Decisions for 820M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Business Objects S.A’s 2nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Business Objects S.A’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Business Objects S.A’s 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Business Objects S.A’s 2nd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2003-07-18
Target Crystal Decisions
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Business Objects S.A
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 820M USD

Target

Crystal Decisions

Palo Alto, California, United States
Crystal Decisions is a provider of business intelligence software and solutions.

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Buyer

Business Objects S.A

Levallois-perret, France
Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Software
DESCRIPTION

Business Objects SA provides business intelligence software and services worldwide.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 7
Sector (Software) 2 of 6
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 2 of 7
State (California) 2 of 4
Country (United States) 2 of 6
Year (2003) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2002-08-01 Acta Technology

Mountain View, California, United States

Acta's software solutions allow corporations to extract data smoothly from various in-house systems and make it available to other enterprise systems (such as ERP or MIS systems) or to front-end applications (such as e-Commerce or CRM systems). Acta is the first company that has pioneered a real-time data transfer solution without disrupting the performance quality of the underlying systems.

Buy $65M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-07-21 SRC Software

Portland, Oregon, United States

SRC Software, Inc. is a developer of financial-planning and performance-management software.

Buy $100M
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