I’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-DuttonTeradata finished 2010 with an acquisition by snapping up privately owned Aprimo, a provider of marketing management software, for $525 million in cash. The acquisition demonstrates Teradata’s desire to broaden its analytic application capabilities, whilst also being able to complement and enhance its market leading (and mature) enterprise data warehousing (EDW) platform. Teradata snags a [...]
Posted on Friday, January 7, 2011 by Helena SchwenkBack in September I reported briefly on TIBCO’s third quarter results: in that quarter, it saw a strong year-on-year revenue rise of 23%. Today TIBCO announced that its fourth quarter matched its third in terms of year-on-year revenue growth with another 23% rise; overall for its 2010 financial year revenue was up 21%. Earlier in [...]
Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonThis week IBM announced its agreement to acquire Netezza, a leading provider of data warehousing appliances, for $1.7 billion. The deal equates to $27 per share paid for in cash and represents a 9.8% premium over its closing price on Friday. The acquisition is a good move by IBM: by buying one of the pioneers [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 by Helena SchwenkIt’s been a couple of weeks since IBM announced it wanted to buy marketing automation software provider Unica for $480 million. Coincidentally it just so happens that it’s been a little over two weeks since I joined MWD and so has come the perfect opportunity to put some of my thoughts down on paper and [...]
Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Helena SchwenkLast week I flew to Vegas to attend IBM’s IMPACT customer conference. As James points out IMPACT used to be the conference for WebSphere customers; however a couple of years ago Sandy Carter (then head of marketing for WebSphere) put paid to that by shifting the focus to IBM’s big unifying story of the day [...]
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonUncategorized
I’ve seen a lot of online conversation which has a surprised tone regarding the intended acquisition of web analytics firm Omniture by Adobe. I don’t understand the surprise. For me it’s simple, a no-brainer. Why? Look at Adobe’s mission statement, here from CEO Shantanu Narayen (italics mine): Adobe’s mission is to revolutionize how the world [...]
Posted on Friday, September 25, 2009 by admin
