Versata Enterprises acquires Ecora Software
Versata Enterprises, Inc., a provider of enterprise software solutions, acquired Ecora Software Corp., a provider of automated configuration auditing and compliance reporting solutions. Ecora's software provides customers a proactive view of IT infrastructure to measure and validate critical business services and comply with external regulations and internal standards. Ecora Software provides configuration audit and compliance reporting solutions to customers worldwide, ensuring their IT infrastructures remain operationally effective, secure and compliant. As a crucial element integrated into an overall Business Service Management (BSM) strategy, Ecora transforms enterprise-wide configuration data into clear, actionable reports providing systemic evidence for regulatory compliance audits and enabling IT best practices. With the increasingly complex and distributed nature of computing infrastructure, Versata sees significant opportunity to provide more value to existing customers and to capture market share.
Announcement Date: September 11, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
Quest Software acquires NetPro Computing
Quest Software, Inc., an enterprise systems management vendor, has acquired NetPro Computing, Inc., a provider of Microsoft infrastructure optimization solutions. The acquisition of NetPro allows Quest to further extend its product portfolio to deliver a comprehensive set of products to manage complex Microsoft infrastructures. The combined product offering is expected to provide robust solutions to better migrate, manage and secure Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server environments.
Announcement Date: September 11, 2008
Deal Value: $78.7 Million
visionapp acquires iQurious
visionapp AG (Germany), the provider of application delivery management, offers products, professional consulting, technologies and services that enable the smooth and efficient delivery of applications. visionapp customers use proven technologies and a high level of automation to implement an efficient, centralized operation of their IT infrastructure. The company acquired iQurious and made it visionapp AG's subsidiary organization in the United States. In the last 90 days, visionapp has gained more than 400 customers in the United States and Canada. This rapid growth convinced visionapp AG's Board of Directors to expand its presence in North America. The acquisition of iQurious Corporation, the exclusive distributor of visionapp in the United States since 2006, gives visionapp a stronger focus in North America and additional expertise in the industry.
Announcement Date: July 22, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
Microsoft acquires Zoomix
Microsoft has acquired Zoomix, an Israeli start-up focused on data quality software. Zoomix has developed a unique approach to data quality software. The Zoomix system uses guided self-learning technology to easily build a knowledge of how to parse, match, classify and clean data, and applies what it has learned to every new piece of information fed into the system, even if it has not encountered similar data before. With the Zoomix acquisition, Microsoft will provide customers with a manageable and scalable enterprise-class data quality solution which further enhances Microsoft's vision of making SQL Server a complete data platform for all data management needs. The purchase price was not disclosed but was rumored to be in the $20 million - $30 million range. Zoomix had raised $8 million in venture capital from Jerusalem Venture Partners and Safra Group.
Announcement Date: July 14, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
IBM acquires Platform Solutions
IBM announced it has acquired Platform Solutions, Inc., a privately-held technology company. PSI's technologies and skills, along with its intellectual capital, will become part of IBM's long-term mainframe product engineering cycles and part of IBM's future product plans. These companies have been embroiled in a legal battle. IBM may have corked the wails of antitrust outrage coming from regulators over the diminutive mainframe vendor Platform Solutions by purchasing it. The rival firm's legal fight in both the U.S. and Europe over IBM's mainframe monopoly came to an abrupt close yesterday when it accepted an undisclosed sum of money to sell out to its massive adversary. As part of the acquisition, PSI dropped all antitrust complaints. IBM was equally obliged to toss away a copyright infringement lawsuit against PSI for doing business selling servers that run IBM mainframe software on non-IBM hardware. PSI's technologies and skills, along with its intellectual capital, will now become part of IBM's long-term mainframe product engineering cycles and part of IBM's future product plans.
Announcement Date: July 2, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
SemanticSpace Technologies acquires Prolifics and Arsin Corporation
SemanticSpace, a software solutions company, acquired Prolifics, a systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies. Prolifics is a Premier IBM Business Partner distinguished with several top awards for its SOA and Portal customer solutions and its level of technical excellence, breadth and depth across the entire IBM software portfolio. Prolifics complements SemanticSpaces offering with its high-value services focused around the IBM brand making the combined entity a truly global organization with a strong and balanced presence across the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific. Together Prolifics, SemanticSpace Technologies, and Arsin Corporation will operate as SemanticSpace Group, creating a new overall organization of 1,500 employees with more than $100 million in revenue. According to SemanticSpaces CEO, the merger of these companies also represents the first chapter in a new industrial revolution in application delivery. Arsin Corporation provides innovative enterprise readiness testing and test automation solutions to Global 2000 companies. Arsin experts assist firms with the development of software and infrastructure reliability and testing strategies with a heavy emphasis on formal methodologies and automated processes.
Announcement Date: July 2, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed
Avocent acquires Touchpaper
Avocent Corporation has acquired Touchpaper Group Limited, a privately-held provider of IT business management solutions based in Woking, U.K. With the acquisition, Avocent continues to expand the IT Operations Management solutions that reach from the desktop to the data center. The Touchpaper technology has been integrated into the Avocent LANDesk Service Desk product for nearly two years. This acquisition will broaden its desktop management solutions as well as fully integrate with existing data center solutions. Avocent plans to integrate Touchpaper technology with its management software and platforms to bring service desk functionality to data centers, enabling a tighter coupling of service management into IT Operations Management.
Announcement Date: July 1, 2008
Deal Value: $45 Million (Cash)
Seller Revenue: $34 Million (2007)
Phoenix Technologies acquires TouchStone Software
Phoenix Technologies has acquired TouchStone Software Corporation, a global leader in online PC diagnostics and software update technology. The deal will enable Phoenix to develop a strong online presence and infrastructure for web-based automated service delivery.
Announcement Date: July 1, 2008
Deal Value: $17 million