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News Analysis: The Implications Of Oracle’s Acquisition Of Taleo

News Analysis: The Implications Of Oracle’s Acquisition Of Taleo

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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News Analysis: SAP Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4B Signals SAP’s Commitment To Cloud, HCM, and Social

News Analysis: SAP Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4B Signals SAP’s Commitment To Cloud, HCM, and Social

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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News Analysis: Oracle Buys RightNow For $1.43B

News Analysis: Oracle Buys RightNow For $1.43B

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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Will Adobe wreck EchoSign?

Will Adobe wreck EchoSign?

By Phil Wainewright on July 18, 2011

Congratulations to the team at EchoSign on the company’s acquisition by Adobe (see also Techmeme coverage). I’m sorry to say, though, that if Adobe’s previous SaaS acquisitions are anything to go by, today’s news is likely to be less of a cause for celebration than commiseration with EchoSign’s users and fans over the next few [...]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisitions, Acrobat.com, Adobe Systems, echosign, M&A, SaaS, WebEx | 1 Response

Consolidation in the Social Business Market Continues: Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6

Consolidation in the Social Business Market Continues: Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6

By Michael Fauscette on March 30, 2011

Earlier today Salesforce.com announced its agreement to acquire socialytics software vendor Radian6 for a total of $326M in cash and stock. This acquisition continues the expansion of Salesforce.com’s goal of gaining share in the social business market. This acquisition comes…

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News Analysis: Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6 For $316M

News Analysis: Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6 For $316M

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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News Analysis: Infor Extends $1.84B Unsolicited Offer For Lawson

News Analysis: Infor Extends $1.84B Unsolicited Offer For Lawson

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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News Analysis: Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212M – Shows Commitment To Next Gen Apps

News Analysis: Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212M – Shows Commitment To Next Gen Apps

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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Oracle to Buy ATG

Oracle to Buy ATG

By Denis Pombriant on November 2, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Analysis The news is that Oracle is buying independent ecommerce software provider, ATG (Art Technology Group) of Cambridge, MA for $1 billion.  I think it’s a good move for both companies. ATG is known as a premium provider of ecommerce solutions at a relatively affordable price with more pre-built solutions that its [...]

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News Analysis: Deltek Pays $60M For INPUT, Solidifies GovCon Ecosystem

News Analysis: Deltek Pays $60M For INPUT, Solidifies GovCon Ecosystem

By R "Ray" Wang on September 30, 2010

Deltek Expands Core Vertical While Diversifying Profit Streams Project Based Solutions (PBS) vendor Deltek plans to close its $60 million acquisition of INPUT, a government contracting market research and business development firm, on October 1st, 2010.  The transaction will add $26.2M in annual revenue, 160 employees, and a rich government contracting ecosystem.  Analysis of the [...]

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