BlueCielo acquires PONTODOC

 

BlueCielo ECM Solutions, a software company offering Engineering Content Management solutions, has acquired 49% of PONTODOC Soluções de Gerenciamento Ltda, a successful company specializing in the implementation of ECM solutions based in Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil. PONTODOC will be renamed BlueCielo do Brasil Soluçöes de Gerenciamento Ltda. The partial acquisition of PONTODOC is BlueCielo's first step to forming a strong, operational infrastructure in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. PONTODOC has had a total focus on the sale and support of BlueCielo's product portfolio since 1997 and holds Brazil's second-largest market share for the resale of the InnoCielo software suite.

 

Announcement Date: December 11, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed

 

Atypon Systems acquires Macrovision Solutions’ eMeta

 

Atypon Systems, Inc., a provider of e-publishing solutions, acquired the eMeta operation, a provider of access control, subscription management and commerce software, from Macrovision Solutions Corporation. The acquisition of this operation from Macrovision supplements Atypon's existing technologies and services and creates a broader proposition focused exclusively on the licensing and online delivery of publisher content. It creates a single entity dedicated to providing innovative content production, marketing, ecommerce and e-rights management tools to the publishing industry. Through the acquisition of the eMeta operation, Atypon has expanded its highly experienced technical team and added a publishing services consulting team to the company's existing proposition.

 

Announcement Date: November 17, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed

 

enChoice acquires CYA Technologies

 

enChoice acquired CYA Technologies, a software developer and services provider with a full range of product, implementation, and support capabilities across Automation & Security, eBusiness and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. CYA has provided innovative granular recovery and replication solutions to ECM customers since 1998. The combination of the two organizations will create a company leveraging over 30 years of combined expertise to deliver best-of-breed solutions within the ECM market. Moreover, the acquisition further empowers enChoice to continue leading the way as a premier software developer and services provider, delivering holistic software solutions and services across a wide range of ECM customers, and specifically enhances enChoice’s ability to service and protect all aspects of customer data.

 

Announcement Date: November 5, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed

 

Oracle buys assets of Tacit Software
 

Oracle announced that it has acquired the intellectual property assets of Tacit Software. Tacit Software's unique automated profiling technology is an expertise location solution that helps organizations uncover new opportunities for collaboration. Oracle plans to integrate Tacit Software into Oracle Beehive, a secure, integrated, standards-based enterprise collaboration platform. The combined solution is expected to enable enterprises to make effective and immediate use of the knowledge present in their people, messaging and content. According to Oracle, the addition of Tacit Software's technology to Oracle Beehive underscores its commitment to a strong, differentiated presence in the collaboration software industry. This capability enables coordination and collaboration to occur between the right people at the right time based on the information present in the documents, conversations and messages within the enterprise.

 

Announcement Date: November 3, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed

 

 

 

National Interest Security acquires Multi-Threaded

 

National Interest Security Company, LLC, a company controlled by DC Capital Partners, has acquired Multi-Threaded, Inc., a rapidly growing provider of mission critical technology services and solutions to the Intelligence Community and the U.S. Department of Defense. MTI is a highly-specialized company that provides systems engineering and software development solutions in support of document and media exploitation, multi-lingual data exploitation, and cyber security initiatives. MTI’s services and solutions address the significant challenges faced by its customers to effectively manage and analyze the massive repositories of disparate data collected from intelligence operations around the world. MTI provides multi-terabyte unstructured data management solutions, including analytical and data exploitation solutions allowing its customers to rapidly process, translate, retrieve, and analyze information that is pertinent to its mission. All of MTI’s employees have high–level security clearances.

 

Announcement Date: October 17, 2008
Deal Value: Undisclosed

 

Kofax acquires OptiInvoice Digital Technology AB

 

Kofax, provider of Intelligent Capture & Exchange solutions, has acquired OptiInvoice Digital Technology AB (Sweden), a company that develops and markets electronic invoice and other document processing software. OptiInvoice provides software that allows electronic invoices and other documents to be digitally encrypted and transmitted or submitted via e-mail and other data streams in standard text, image and extensible markup language (XML) file formats. It then allows the recipient to accept and process those same files. The software eliminates the need to print, mail, receive and process paper-based invoices and other documents, thereby significantly reducing otherwise manual labor processes and costs, improving the accuracy of the related data and accelerating processing times. This acquisition is a natural extension of Kofax’s intention to grow both organically as well as through the acquisition of synergistic software companies and products.

 

Announcement Date: October 6, 2008
Deal Value: $2.67 Million (Cash plus potential earnout up to $13 million over 4 years)