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Social Market Consolidation - It's Here

Social Market Consolidation – It’s Here

By Chris Selland on May 29, 2012

In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Social Media/Marketing marketspace is starting to consolidate – rapidly. What’s driving this consolidation is M&A activity by the large cap market leaders, most notably Salesforce.com who is apparently about to purchase Buddy Media for more than $800M. This follows Oracle’s just-announced $300M acquisition of Vitrue. Salesforce started […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Buddy Media, consolidation, M&A, oracle, Radian6, salesforce.com, Social Media, Vitrue

Consolidation in the Outsourcing and Consulting spaces

Consolidation in the Outsourcing and Consulting spaces

By Brian Sommer on July 13, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Last week, I discussed the Booz & Co./A.T. Kearney merger that didn’t go through and why deals like that are sometimes problematic. This week, we learn that Hewitt is being acquired for $4.9 billion by AON. The Wall Street Journal reports that: – Deloitte LLP is looking for acquisitions – PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP […]

Posted in Business | Tagged A. T. Kearney, consolidation, Consulting, deloitte, Mergers & Acquisitions, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Wall Street Journal

Hewitt into AON:  a sad, bad day for HR Outsourcing

Hewitt into AON: a sad, bad day for HR Outsourcing

By Phil Fersht on July 12, 2010

Waking up this morning to hear the news of Hewitt’s acquisition by AON signalled a sad, bad day for HR Outsourcing. The HRO industry is now consolidating faster than any of us imagined… forget ADP/Workscape, this is BIG – and leaves the global HRO market with three major global HRO enterprise-level providers – IBM, NGA and […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Accenture, AON, BPO, consolidation, Current Affairs, Hewitt, Hewitt Associates, HR Outsourcing, Human resources, ibm, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions | 3 Responses

Marketing Automation Consolidation?

Marketing Automation Consolidation?

By Bob Warfield on July 8, 2010

Many VC’s and other practitioners of the Art of Startup view consolidation as a normal part of the evolution of a market.  At first there are lots of companies founded in a space and lots of hype.  Over time, a handful emerge as leaders.  Once the handful is obviously head and shoulders above the rest, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisitions, cmr, consolidation, Eloqua, genius.com, InfusionSoft, M&A, marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Marketo, musical chairs, salesforce.com, Silverpop | 7 Responses

Will SAP be acquired?

Will SAP be acquired?

By Dennis Moore on February 14, 2010

Will SAP be acquired? Reader poll says yes by a 2 to 1 margin, but a thoughtful analysis casts doubt on this notion.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, consolidation, enterprise software, erp, Hasso Plattner, M&A, sap, SAP AG, speculation | 2 Responses

SFDC Acquisiton Spree?

SFDC Acquisiton Spree?

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 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, consolidation, dark horse, Eloqua, Marketo, Mergers & Acquisitions, netsuite, RightNow, SaaS, salesforce.com, shopping spree | 1 Response

Gartner buys Burton and the Analyst Consolidation Question

Gartner buys Burton and the Analyst Consolidation Question

By Michael Coté on January 5, 2010

With the news that Gartner is buying The Burton Group today, the topic of IT analyst consolidations is popping up again. While I’ve only been in the analyst world for 4 years now (come Feb 2010), working at a small firm has given me, I wager, more of a view into the machinations of the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amr, analyst, Burton, consolidation, Forrester Research, gartner, Industry Analysts, M&A, Open source | 2 Responses

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