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Workday and Peakon. My take.

Workday and Peakon. My take.

By Thomas Otter on February 1, 2021

Workday agreed to acquire Peakon. There is an obvious logic to this deal. Engagement tools are an important part of HRTECH today, and the cycle of larger vendor absorbing edge innovators continues. Cue Disney circle of life music. Engagement tools have done well under COVID-19, with the move to more remote work etc. Whereas 2 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, GDPR, HRTech, M&A, Peakon, Start Up, workday

Verint Acquires KANA Software: The Analysis

Verint Acquires KANA Software: The Analysis

By Esteban Kolsky on January 7, 2014

EVENT On January 6th, 2014 Verint announced their intentions to purchase KANA Software for a reported $514 million mix of cash and loan obligations.  The expected close date is first quarter of 2014. ANALYSIS I cannot say I am surprised that Verint finally got into the multi-channel customer service market. I have been expecting this […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged $KANA, acquisition, M&A, Verint

One More Time, with Feeling!

One More Time, with Feeling!

By Denis Pombriant on December 23, 2013

One More Time, with Feeling! Oracle announced another software company purchase.  Its acquisition of Responsys makes a few founders, VC’s, and assorted vested employees very happy for the holidays.  Good for them.  Really, I mean it.  Good for anyone who has a liquidity event like this, regardless of time of year.  Now what? Over the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, M&A, oracle, Responsys

PwC-Booz: The seven year itch

PwC-Booz: The seven year itch

By Vinnie Mirchandani on November 4, 2013

The recent PwC decision to acquire Booz took me back to younger days when I was an reluctant accountant at PW (the C came later after it merged with Coopers). I had little desire to do time in auditing or get a CPA certificate, but that was a requirement back them to qualify for its […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Accenture, Booz Allen & Hamilton, deloitte, ibm, M&A, mergers, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, PWC, Sarbanes–Oxley Act

Enterprise May Be Sexy, But….

Enterprise May Be Sexy, But….

By Zoli Erdos on June 4, 2013

Snapshot from today’s TechMeme.  Crazy gamers (OMGPOP) dropped by even crazier gamers (Zynga) as they fall out of favor by even crazier gamers (the whole World). So what. On the very same day Salesforce.com acquires Exact Target in their largest ever transaction valued at $2.5B and it does not even make TechMeme.  Heck, even ActiveState’s acquisition […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged acquisitions, ActiveState, Appsecute, M&A, OMGPOP, salesforce.com, TechMeme, zynga

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-22

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-22

By Dennis Moore on July 22, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Two IPOs come out strongly after Facebook IPO disappointment – Kayak and Palo Alto Networks. Google Nexus 7, with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, is becoming the first general purpose worthy competitor to the Apple iPad. Workday files for IPO, using JOBS Act to avoid […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, android, apple, BI, Big Data, BigData, Cloud, Concur, Dennis Moore, Ensw, google, hp, Infor, Informatica, IPO, Kayak, Linux, M&A, mergers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mergers And Acquisitions, microsoft, MSNBC, netsuite, news, oracle, Palo Alto Networks, SaaS, salesforce.com, samsung, sap, Skire, SQL Server, SQLServer, Tripit, VMware, workday, Yahoo, yammer

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

Cloud-y Days Ahead

Cloud-y Days Ahead

By Brian Sommer on October 26, 2011

Good to be a Cloud Software Shareholder (but not a customer!) Any doubts anyone had about the legitimacy of cloud application software should have been laid to rest the last few weeks. When Oracle weighs in to buy RightNow as part of a larger acquisition strategy to acquire cloud software products, then the landscape of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud Computing, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, netsuite, oracle, RightNow, RightNow Technologies, SaaS, salesforce.com, software as a service, SuccessFactor | 1 Response

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

Citrix buys Cloud.com – Brief Note

Citrix buys Cloud.com – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on July 12, 2011

Citrix announced the acquisition of Cloud.com this morning hoping to flesh out its long-running cloud road-map. This Brief Note covers what this means for Citrix and provides some background. Summary There’s some clear motivations for Citrix: Filling whitespace – Citrix has long spoken about cloud computing, but they’ve yet to make a big splash on […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud, cloud.com Citrix, Companies, enterprise software, M&A, Open source, OpenStack, Private Cloud, Systems Management

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