Reaffirming its commitment to delivering strongly integrated business process orchestration technologies that help customers close the gap between insight and action, SAP AG today announced the general availability of the latest version of the SAP NetWeaver® Composition Environment offering (SAP NetWeaver CE 7.2).
Business process orchestration technologies - which include composition, integration and real-time business intelligence offerings - help companies better integrate and optimize their business processes across application and business boundaries, and provide real-time business insights to help customers capitalize on business opportunities.
The newest release of the composition environment marks a major milestone in the evolution of process orchestration technology from SAP, enabling customers and partners to easily build on top of existing IT installations, orchestrate new business processes and thus gain greater insight across their entire organization to enable more impactful business decisions...

SAP and Sybase today announced that SAP’s subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Sybase, Inc., in a transaction that will bring the two information technology (IT) leaders together to enable companies to become better-run “unwired enterprises.” As a result of this transaction, customers will be able to better harness today’s explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers wherever they work so they can make faster, more informed decisions. Companies will benefit from greater productivity, speed and agility to help their businesses grow. Under the terms and conditions of the merger agreement, SAP America, Inc., will make an all cash tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Sybase common stock at $65.00 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $5.8 billion.

The per share purchase price represents a 44% premium over the three-month average stock price of Sybase. The transaction will be funded from SAP’s cash on hand and a €2.75 billion loan facility arranged and underwritten by Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank..