Business Objects in NSite

Business intelligence solutions provider Business Objects (great name, really) today announced its acquisition of Nsite Software, Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based software-as-a-service provider. The acquisition gives Business Objects access to Nsite’s on-demand application platform, employees, and approximately 27,000 Nsite subscribers. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Said Steven Lucas, vice president of strategic markets at Business Objects: “SaaS is changing the software market and the acquisition of Nsite is a big step forward for Business Objects in opening up this important new market to business intelligence.”

Nsite’s application platform enables users to build, customize, and deploy on-demand solutions to serve as enterprise applications through a browser. Nsite provides drag-and-drop functionality and uses asynchronous Java and XML technology. The platform is integrated with salesforce.com customer relationship management solutions. The Business Objects plan involves using the platform to build and offer customizable on-demand BI applications that integrate multiple data sources, such as information from ERP and CRM systems.

With the acquisition, Business Objects announced a few more numbers. Business Objects, says company PR, launched its first on-demand solution, crystalreports.com, in April 2006, and already has more than 7,000 subscribers. Following the Nsite acquisition, Business Objects has now increased its on-demand subscriber base to over 34,000.

Business Objects expects to introduce additional on-demand BI solutions in 2007. Business Objects will continue to offer and support current Nsite applications and will extend on-demand business intelligence to Nsite users.

Business Objects is currently the world’s leading business intelligence software company; the firm boasts over 30,000 customers worldwide, including over eighty percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects XI is platform for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, and data integration.