Editing BusinessObjects (section)

{{Short description|Enterprise software company}}
{{Other uses|business object}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Business Objects SA
| logo = 
| slogan = 
| fate = Acquired by [[SAP AG|SAP]] ({{end date and age|2007}})
| foundation = {{start date and age|1990}}
| location = [[San Jose, California]] and [[Paris]], France
| key_people = [[John G. Schwarz]], CEO<br />[[Bernard Liautaud]], Chairman and Founder
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| industry = [[Software]]
| products = {{nowrap|[[Business intelligence]] tools<br>[[Data visualization]] tools<br>[[Analytics]] tools<br>[[Data warehousing]] tools<br>[[Extract, transform, load|ETL]] tools}}
| homepage = {{URL|https://www.sap.com/}}
}}
'''Business Objects''' (BO, BOBJ, or BObjects) was an [[enterprise software]] company, specializing in [[business intelligence]] (BI). Business Objects was acquired in 2007 by German company [[SAP AG]]. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers in its final earnings release prior to being acquired by SAP.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sap.com/about/newsroom/businessobjects/20080129_006682.epx |title=Press and News &#124; About SAP AG |publisher=SAP |access-date=2014-04-09 |archive-date=2010-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818041607/http://www.sap.com/about/newsroom/businessobjects/20080129_006682.epx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Its flagship product was BusinessObjects XI (or BOXI<ref>{{cite web | url=https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/it/services/boxi/access.aspx | title=How do I gain access to BOXI | publisher=[[University of Birmingham]] | access-date=2019-03-07}}</ref>), with components that provide [[performance management]], [[planning]], reporting, query and analysis, as well as enterprise information management. Business Objects also offered consulting and education services to help customers deploy its business intelligence projects. Other toolsets enabled universes (the Business Objects name for a [[semantic layer]] between the physical data store and the front-end reporting tool) and ready-written reports to be stored centrally and made selectively available to communities of the users.