Acquisitions News & Articles

An attractive acquisition target for the bigger players in the enterprise content management space because of their success in both the healthcare and banking industries, the purveyors of the OnBase document management solution have gone in a different direction and agreed to be acquired by a private equity firm.

There’s nothing like buying your way into an industry to get a foot through the door.

Intel Capital just made a US$ 218.5 million buy-in on virtualization company VMware, pocketing 9.5 million Class A shares (that’s US$ 23 per share) in the process.

Autonomy, an enterprise infrastructure software purveyor, has just announced its purchase of ZANTAZ, which specializes in content archiving and e-discovery solutions software.

The pairing is expected to “redefine” information risk management by combining e-discovery, analytics, real-time policy management and consolidated archiving into one system.

Though the company was originally formed with the coupling of IBM’s Printing Systems Division with Ricoh’s hardware solutions has been servicing customers since January, the union is now official with the launch of InfoPrint Solutions Company.

Proximity Group, one of the leading Video asset management firms with offices in London, New York and Sydney, has been acquired by Apple, according to their website.

California-based database and applications giant Oracle has finally made an Enterprise CMS acquisition. The company has announced that it will buy Stellent for $13.50 per share, or $440 million, in cash. The agreed amount is more than 25% above Stellent’s closing price on Thursday, a boon for Stellent stock holders. However, for Stellent’s customer base, the future may not be quite as rosy looking.

Following close on the heels of recent Google applications developments. The company has acquired JotSpot, a “pioneering” publishing and collaboration company started in 2004 by Excite.com co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer.

The JotSpot apps includes a group directory, file cabinet, blog, forum, group calendar, photo gallery, poll and to-do list.

According to a statement released by JotSpot, JotSpot’s team and technology are a strong fit with existing Google products like Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Apps for Your Domain and Google Groups.

New registrations are temporarily disabled and the service will soon be free for existing users. There will of course be a migration period while the applications are integrated into Google’s infrastructure, but stay tuned as new versions of Google online apps suite takes shape, blending the JotSpot capabilities with GOOG’s latest releases.