The Acquisition of Business Objects

On one business news channel, I saw a half hour program on Business Intelligence.  An officer identified as being from Business Objects was present.  This is proof of the growing importance of Business Intelligence, and a good way for SAP to market BI.
On the negative side, I read an article that most mergers and acquisitions end up reducing shareholder value.  We will have to look up the new market capitalization of SAP, and compare it to the market capitalization of SAP and Business Objects before the acquisition.
What is your opinion of the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP?
Al Lal
www.olap.wetpaint.com

Casual investigation into the use of Crystal Reports with MII yielded a major advantage and a couple of disadvantages:
ADVANTAGE: Nice(r?)-looking reports can be generated in a fraction of the time from traditional MII reports
DISADVANTAGES:
1. Deploying similar reports to multiple sites could be a significant headache, since the "XML and Web Services" connection definition is a string and not a set of parameters that allows the server name (for instance) to be modified easily.
2. A schema is required for any report, so this must be created manually or dynamically via XSL
Chip:  Would love to hear what you end up doing or determining.
Edited by: David McKnight on Jun 18, 2008 2:04 AM

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