Headline figures for Q4 include total revenues of $444m, up 20% , licence revenues of $199m up 11% and maintenance revenues of $177m, up 29%. However, the company posted a fall in profit in Q4 due to higher tax reserves, resulting $14m in net profit from $35.5m a year earlier.

This will be the final set of results as a seperate entity: on January 21, 2008, Business Objects became a majority-owned subsidiary of SAP AG.

More information can be found on the Business Objects site (http://www.businessobjects.com/news/press_release.asp?id=20080129_006682) and comments on Ovum (http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=6595). Links open in new windows.