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By Sandy Kemsley on January 26, 2010
That was fast! Proving my predictions to be ever so inaccurate when I said that it could be months before this closed, the IBM acquisition of Lombardi has closed less than six weeks after it was announced. Good news for IBM, Lombardi, and Lombardi customers.
Not surprisingly, IBM has toned down the “departmental” rhetoric that they [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged BPM, Business process, ibm, Lombardi, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions
By Brad Feld on January 21, 2010
My friends at NewsGator had a great 2009 – enterprise social computing came into its own and they were at the front of the pack. If an organization uses SharePoint and is interested in social computing, NewsGator Social Sites is a must have product.
Yesterday, NewsGator acquired Tomoye. The two companies are highly complimentary – Tomoye [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged acquisition, Mergers & Acquisitions, NewsGator, startups, Tomoye
By Jason Busch on January 21, 2010
Following the announcement of Versata’s acquisition of PurchasingNet
last week, I had the chance to catch up with Mike Williams, a general
manager at Versata responsible for its Nextance (contract
management) and newly acquired PurchasingNet…
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Ariba, Bellwether, Commerce One, Coupa, Enporion, ePlus, eprocurement, Global eProcure, Ivalua, Ketera, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mergers And Acquisitions, Metiom, Nextance, Perfect, Proactis, PurchasingNet, roll-up strategy, Spend Management, Verian, Versata
By Chris Selland on January 12, 2010
Looks like there’s a good chance my predictions that Salesforce.com ($CRM) will get more aggressive on the M&A front in 2010 are coming true. Fellow Enterprise Irregular Larry Dignan has more details on the $500 million convertible bond issue.
Of course, $500M likely does not a ‘game changer’ acquisition buy, but it can certainly help fund [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged crm, EPAY, Mergers & Acquisitions, salesforce.com, SLRY, Uncategorized, Venture Capital, VOCS
By Bob Warfield on January 12, 2010
This just in: Salesforce to raise $500M in debt.
It’s about time the SaaS world did some acquiring, and Salesforce.com is the logical playa to start. That $500M may be just to war chest to get started down the path. Larry Dignan concurs.
Who would they acquire? Would they acquire someone not SaaS?
Wouldn’t make much sense to [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, consolidation, dark horse, Eloqua, Marketo, Mergers & Acquisitions, netsuite, RightNow, SaaS, salesforce.com, shopping spree
By Brian Sommer on January 6, 2010
It’s been one year after the Oracle acquisition of Primavera. Has anything changed? What will Oracle do next with this product line? Should PPM competitors care or worry?
Posted in Software | Tagged Current Affairs, deal, erp, Mergers & Acquisitions, oracle, PPM - Project Portfolio Management, Professional Services, PSA - Professional Services Automation, The Applications Market
By Brian Sommer on November 27, 2009
Wow – The Financial Force.com product line may have the rosiest future of all the products showcased at the recent Dreamforce.com show in SFO. Read why here.
Posted in Software | Tagged CEO Interview, Current Affairs, erp, Financial Software, Future of Application Software, Mergers & Acquisitions, Selling & Marketing Software, Software Marketing, Software Vendors, software. applications, The Applications Market
By Chris Selland on November 12, 2009
Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of interest and speculation in what happens next after the $HPQ acquisition of $COMS.
First of all, yes of course $HPQ is going after $CSCO (who isn’t these days?) – but as usually happens when the leader gets attacked, I expect the damage, at least in the near-term, to be minimal. [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged 3com, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, hp, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Networking, Uncategorized
By Jason Busch on November 5, 2009
Earlier this morning, JDA announced it was, once again, buying supply chain rival i2 (the previous deal between the two ended up falling through). This around time, the terms of the deal are slightly richer, at least as The Wall Street Journal is rep…
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, i2, I2 Technologies, itwo, JDA Software, manugistics, Mergers & Acquisitions, oracle, supply chain, supply chain management, xelus
By Chris Selland on November 5, 2009
Lively debate going on this morning regarding whether it’s time for $RIMM to find a buyer, as Dan Frommer argues that they have become an enterprise dinosaur in an increasingly consumer-driven market. So should they sell?
As I argued here recently, $GOOG is rapidly ascending and $AAPL has quickly become the leader in attention if not [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged $CSCO, $GOOG, $NOK, apple, google, Handhelds, iPhone, Mergers & Acquisitions, MSFT, Nokia, rimm, Smartphone, Uncategorized
