Deals

SAP has had a wealth of good news to share this week, as it announced a planned acquisition, reported rosy earnings and scored a significant coup. First, with an eye toward ramping up its capabilities in business rules management, SAP announced Wednesday that it plans to acquire Yasu Technologies. S...

Oracle announced it wants to acquire BEA Systems, a provider of Web-based business productivity and integration software, for $6.7 billion, or $17 per share in cash. BEA has already rejected the offer, according to news accounts, saying that Oracle's bid seriously undervalues the company's overall w...

Once the software industry absorbed this week's news that SAP would be acquiring the French business intelligence vendor Business Objects for close to $7 billion, speculation immediately shifted to what would happen to Cognos. With Oracle's digestion of Hyperion complete and the Business Objects sal...

SAP has announced it will acquire Business Objects for about $6.78 billion. The French business intelligence vendor is one of the few assets on the market able to go head to head with Hyperion, which Oracle bought earlier this year for $3.3 billion. The acquisition will allow SAP to move into the BI...

Oracle plans to acquire Netsure Telecom, a Dublin, Ireland-based company that provides networking intelligence, analytics and network data integrity software. The company's typical clients include tier one operators of next generation network and service providers such as Vodafone, Cable & Wirel...

Nuance Communications, the lead vendor in the growing speech-recognition software category, plans to acquire Time Warner's Tegic Communications for $265 million. The acquisition will add $45 million to $48 million in net revenue in fiscal 2008, the company reported. The addition of Tegic, which dev...

Ending weeks of speculation, Salesforce.com has unveiled an expanded partnership with Google that will start by combining the on-demand software firm's Web-based CRM product with Google AdWords. The two companies, which have been linked in rumors for weeks, launched the product Tuesday in 43 countri...

If the reports of Avaya's acquisition are accurate, Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners are near to closing the largest leveraged buyout of a computer networking company. Avaya, TPG and Silver Lake are declining to comment, but reports say the two private equity firms will pay about $8 bill...

ValueAct Capital and Silver Lake, which focuses on large-scale investments in technology-driven growth industries, will purchase 100 percent of the outstanding equity interests in Acxiom in an all-cash transaction valued at $3 billion, which includes the assumption of approximately $756 million of d...

Private equity heavyweight the Blackstone Group is taking another publicly traded software company private. It has announced it will purchase Alliance Data Systems for $7.8 billion, including the assumption of certain debt, or $81.75 per share in cash. That is a premium of 30 percent over the $62.96...

Oracle has entered the product lifecycle management niche with a flourish through its acquisition of best-of-breed vendor Agile Software. While there are other active PLM vendors, Agile offers a difficult-to-replicate line of products and functionality that address product innovation and the introdu...

How do SOA and Web 2.0 services come together? Are we entering an era where a variety of business services from a spectrum of sources contribute to and perhaps dominate new business process aggregation? If so, won't that require a level of governance to protect enterprises from flighty Web-based ser...

Aiming squarely at the SOA/BPM market niche, Germany's Software AG has announced it is buying WebMethods for approximately $546 million, or $9.15 per share. The announcement was hardly unexpected, as it was clear that WebMethods needed to do something to address its scale issue, as well as other com...

FrontRange has acquired Enteo, a privately held Germany-based company, at undisclosed terms. The firm's product offerings include applications for patch management, distribution of operating systems and applications, license management and compliance, and configuration management. It has 1,200 custo...

Oracle has agreed to buy BI heavyweight Hyperion Solutions for $3.3 billion in cash. The move follows SAP's acquisition of BI vendor Pilot Software last month, illustrating the trend among ERP providers to enhance their operational backbone products with performance management, a subsector in the bu...