Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said Monday it acquired closely held ActiveViews Inc., whose products work with Microsoft's to find and display information stored on corporate computer systems.
Terms weren't disclosed.
Provo-based ActiveViews, which had five employees, makes products that work with Microsoft's Net corporate and Internet tools and SQL Server Reporting Services program for mining databases to create reports, Microsoft said in a statement.
Microsoft, which released the reporting-services program in January, is adding the products to try to sell more copies of its SQL database server and compete with companies such as Cognos Inc. and Business Objects SA. Oracle Corp., Microsoft's main database-software rival, also sells such programs, often called business-intelligence software.
Shares of Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash., fell 30 cents to close at $27.24 Monday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.