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Where is the HR software market disappearing?
Image credit: Chilmark research Today’s announcement, SumTotal is buying Softscape, is just one of a cascade of announcements in recent weeks involving M&A activity in the Human Resources (HR),...
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Deltek to Acquire INPUT, Extends Its Reach in the Government Contracting...
Today Deltek announced its intent to acquire market research firm INPUT. INPUT, originally founded in 1974 as an IT market research firm has, since 2000, focused on delivering market and opportunity...
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Friday Rant: Is Private Equity a Better Buyer of Software Companies Than...
Madison Dearborn’s recent Fieldglass buyout (here, here) provides further proof that today’s private equity firms might be better strategic — that’s right, strategic and not financial — buyers of...
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Foxmarks, Xmarks, LastPass, Xpass, LastX, X%^&% Quick Rant
Warning: I think I’m becoming a curmudgeon – except that title has until now been reserved for somebody else . But I still have doubts about the recent transaction: LastPass acquired Xmarks. I really...
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The Narrow Bubble
There’s been a great deal of reaction recently to the New York Times story on the new ‘bubble’ – and given the discussions of $4, $5 and $6+ billion valuations for companies like Twitter, Zynga and...
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Keeping Score: Exit Activity for Venture Backed Companies in 2010
Not surprisingly in 2008 and 2009 exit activity for venture backed tech companies was very slow. Last year that activity seemed to have picked up, mirroring the overall improved business environment....
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Emptoris Acquires Rivermine — Telecom Expense Management Meets Procurement
Today, Emptoris announced it has acquired Rivermine, one of the leading telecom expense management (TEM) vendors, further expanding its solution set into an additional complex category which has...
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HRM #EnSW Vendor Consolidation Fairy Tales
“Fairy Tales May Come True, It Could Happen To You” There was a ton of consolidation in the HRM software and services market during 2010, and 2011 is off to a roaring start with SumTotal’s acquisition...
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Dim Dim: The Risk of Being a Salesforce Customer
My title is a bit of a play on ReadWriteWeb’s title about the Risk of a Free Service, but I raise the issue in all seriousness because I think we should be looking not at the seller (hey, at this...
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iGate acquires Patni
iGate announced its acquisition of a majority stake in Patni. iGate with Apax Partners, will acquire 63% of the company for the final price of Rs. 503.50 effectively valuing Patni, the company at $1.5...
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Today, Material Change of Control Clauses Really Matter
Remember? Whenever you buy anything big â really big â you need to consider what happens should the vendor/manufacturer be sold or fail outright. Itâs just good business sense to plan for these things...
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Predicting a Software M&A Frenzy: Are You Ready Contractually? Change of...
Given the fact that we often get involved in M&A strategy and the occasional transaction in the sector here with one of our affiliates companies at Spend Matters, we have a bit of a privileged...
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Potential Lawson acquisition â How it could affect you
A colleague once remarked to me âSoftware companies come and go but software products last foreverâ. Essentially, heâs right. The products often live on and on. Whether the acquirer does anything with...
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Dear Big Companies: Please Stop Wrecking My Stuff.
Big company buys small social company. Several unremarkable years pass. Big company suddenly announces that they are sunsetting/shuttering/selling small company, now much diminished from lack of care...
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Citrix buys Cloud.com – Brief Note
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...
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Will Adobe wreck EchoSign?
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,...
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Cloud-y Days Ahead
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...
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Social Market Consolidation – It’s Here
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...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-22
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: The Triumph of Hope Over Experience Two IPOs come out strongly after Facebook IPO disappointment – Kayak and Palo Alto Networks....
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Enterprise May Be Sexy, But….
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...
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