On Monday, Dallas-based online communities vendor Telligent announced its acquisition of Leverage Software in a move designed to bolster Telligent’s opportunity in this fiercely competitive market. The acquisition, which brings together two companies which both provide online communities solutions, follows quick on the heels of competitor Jive Software’s highly anticipated IPO last week, and highlights [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 by Angela AshendenToday document capture specialist Kofax announced its acquisition of UK-based BPM and case management technology vendor Singularity. This comes on the heels of Lexmark’s acquisition of Dutch BPM technology vendor Pallas Athena – another vendor focused on imaging and document management applications moving ‘sideways’ to capture potential customer interest in broader process improvement projects. In [...]
Posted on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonProgress Software announced today its acquisition of Corticon, the last remaining pure-play business rules management (BRM) technology provider of any size. Terms were not disclosed, but the company had recently been on a strong growth path – so it’s likely Progress paid a significant premium [we'll probably never know, of course]. Progress is pitching Corticon [...]
Posted on Monday, December 5, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonEarlier this week I had an interesting call with VMware’s CTO of SaaS and Application Services, Javier Soltero, to find out the thinking behind its acquisition of microblogging vendor, Socialcast, in May this year. As a collaboration analyst, I have not had any real contact with VMware up until now – at least, apart from [...]
Posted on Friday, October 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenThe week after Progress’ Revolution customer event in Boston, I spent a few days in Vegas courtesy of TIBCO at its annual TUCON customer shindig. At one level, there are some interesting parallels to draw between Progress and TIBCO*: both vendors are ‘independent’ infrastructure software providers; both are currently pitching visions of responsiveness to their [...]
Posted on Monday, October 3, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonIt might not be on the same scale as HP buying Autonomy, but today’s purchase of UK-based software vendor Nimbus Partners by TIBCO is still pretty important news in the BPM space. Nimbus, a UK-based provider of what might be described as a “process knowledge management” platform (my words, not Nimbus’) called Control is pretty [...]
Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonI’m hardly hot of the press with this one, for which – apologies. (My initial reaction on Twitter came down to this). My excuse is that vendors never consult me on the timings of their acquisition announcements, and so sometimes it turns out I’m busy with other things ;-) So, having set out to purchase [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonI’ve just returned from another lightning trip to the US – this time to take in PegaWorld, Pegasystems’ annual user conference. The company is currently publishing full-year revenue guidance of around $430m for 2011 – up from $330m or so last year – which means it’s grown 30% in each of the last three years. [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 9, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonWith its recent focus on Business Process Excellence following its acquisition of IDS Scheer, it’s perhaps easy to forget that Software AG still has a healthy business as an integration middleware provider. The purchase of Terracotta, announced May 23, doesn’t immediately stand out as a great fit for a company that pitches itself as helping [...]
Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonLast week ECM specialist OpenText completed its purchase of BPM and Enterprise Architecture tools vendor Metastorm for $182m. The deal was originally announced on Feb 2 and was expected to close by the end of March; OpenText has obviously received approval from Metastorm shareholders much more quickly than expected, likely because of the purchase price. [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 by Neil Ward-Dutton
