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By R "Ray" Wang on February 9, 2012
Catch my colleague Yvette Cameron’s point of view here when published. She covers Future of Work for Constellation Research, Inc. Oracle Plays Catch Up With Public Cloud Ambitions On February 9th, Oracle announced its intention to acquire Dublin, CA based Taleo for $1.9B. Taleo is a cloud based talent management software provider with 5000 customers [...]
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By Michael Fauscette on December 15, 2011
It seems, based on the last few acquisitions in enterprise software by three of the largest software vendors, that cloud computing has moved past its tipping point. The acquisitions, RightNow by Oracle, SuccessFactors by SAP and DemandTec by IBM, also…
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 3, 2011
SuccessFactors Acquisition Puts SAP In Direct Competition With Workday And Taleo SAP (NYSE:SAP) announced its $3.4B acquisition of SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF) as it seeks to bolster its position in the Cloud and more importantly in the rapidly growing strategic HCM market. Based in San Mateo, CA, USA, SuccessFactors brings over 15 million subscription users [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on October 25, 2011
The Acquisition Machine Heads To The Public Cloud Users gathered at the Customer Summit 2011 at the Broadmoor Hotel woke up to the shocking announcement that Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced a $1.43B acquisition of leading SMB CRM vendor RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ: RNOW) today. According to Thomas Kurian, “Oracle is moving aggressively to offer customers a [...]
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By Michael Fauscette on October 24, 2011
This morning Oracle announced its intent to acquire RightNow Technologies, a SaaS customer service / CRM application vendor for ~$1.5B. The acquisition is positioned to expand Oracle’s recently announced Public Cloud offering and signals a shift in focus for Oracle’s acquisition strategy. Oracle’s Public Cloud offering, up to this announcement, was presumed to be composed [...]
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By Zoli Erdos on April 26, 2011
Quick initial reaction: scratching head. Vmware recently shook up the Cloud Computing world with the launch of Cloud Foundry and I think most of us would have pegged them as an infrastructure company. Then all of a sudden they buy Sliderocket, the great collaborative presentations company. Why is this a big deal? Probably not for [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 30, 2011
Salesforce.com Bets Big On Social Media Monitoring And Socialytics Radian6, a social media monitoring and customer engagement platform, provides tools for companies seeking to harness the power of social media and related social networks. Most customers utilize Radian6 for brand management and monitoring, sales and lead generation, Social CRM, customer service, competitive intelligence, trend analysis, [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 14, 2011
Unsolicited Offer Marks Chuck Phillips’ First Acquisition Attempt At Infor On March 11th, St.Paul, MN, based Lawson announced that Infor and Golden Gate Capital made a $1.84B unsolicited offer. This comes after the March 8th news that Lawson retained Barclays Bank to evaluate options. An acquisition by Infor (the 3rd largest ERP vendor) and Lawson [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on December 8, 2010
Acquisition of Heroku In Line With Platform Future of Salesforce.com At Marc Benioff’s keynote, the CEO reiterated his commitment to 6 clouds: Sales, Service, Data (Jigsaw), Collaboration (Chatter), Cloud Platform (Force.com), and Database (database.com). As Salesforce.com continues to diversify its portfolio into adjacent markets, the platform as a service (PaaS) component remains a key area [...]
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By Jevon MacDonald on November 15, 2010
Another great exit for the Toronto startup community and some great news in advance of CIX in a few weeks. Toronto based Cognovision has reportedly been acquired by intel. According to DailyDOOH, which covers the digital out of home market, the pricetag was $17m. Cognovision was the winner of the CIX pitch competition last year. [...]
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