M&A Deal Summary

SAP Acquires Business Objects S.A

On January 29, 2008, SAP acquired software company Business Objects S.A for 6.8B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is SAP’s 12th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is SAP’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is SAP’s 1st transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2008-01-29
Target Business Objects S.A
Sector Software
Buyer(s) SAP
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 6.8B USD

Target

Business Objects S.A

Levallois-perret, France
Business Objects SA provides business intelligence software and services worldwide.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

SAP

Walldorf, Germany

Category Company
Founded 1972
Sector Software
Employees108,929
Revenue 34.2B EUR (2024)
DESCRIPTION
SAP office in Downers Grove, Illinois.
SAP office in Downers Grove, Illinois.

SAP is a multinational software company that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. SAP was founded in 1972 and is based in Walldorf, Germany.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 17 of 62
Sector: Software M&A 12 of 36
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 17 of 60
Country: France M&A 1 of 5
Year: 2008 M&A 1 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 10
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-10-17 YASU Technologies Pvt.

Hyderabad, India

YASU Technologies provides business rules management systems to customers across diverse industry sectors including insurance, banking, mortgage, telecommunication and manufacturing.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-07-22 Visiprise

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Visiprise, Inc. provides software solutions to support for manufacturers.

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