Deals

ATG is building out its personalization feature set with the $10 million acquisition of best-of-breed vendor CleverSet. It is the first acquisition the company has made since its $48.3 million eStara deal in 2006. CleverSet is an automated personalization engine delivered in Software as a Service mo...

Three months after BEA Systems rejected its first unsolicited offer of $6.7 billion, Oracle announced that it will be acquiring the middleware and business process management vendor after all -- for $8.5 billion, or $19.38 per share. That's a 14 percent premium over its first bid and a 24 percent pr...

Genesys is expanding its feature set with the cash acquisition of Informiam, a customer service performance management software provider. The new addition will enhance the company's reporting and analytic capabilities. Financial terms of the acquisition of the privately held company were not release...

SAP may be putting on the block its third-party support and maintenance subsidiary, TomorrowNow, the company reported. SAP acquired the company, which services Oracle subsidiaries PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, a few years ago as part of a larger drive to build out an independent stream of support and ...

Another best-of-breed business intelligence vendor has been snapped up: This time, it is Cognos, which IBM has agreed to acquire for $5 billion in cash, or roughly $58 per share. The move was widely anticipated, given the recent acquisitions made by IBM's rivals in this space. Earlier this year, SAP...

Hoping to turn up the heat on BEA's board of directors, Oracle on Tuesday set a deadline for the company to accept its $6.7 billion buyout offer. In a letter to BEA's board, Oracle said its current offer of $17 per share in cash would expire at 5 p.m. on Oct. 28. Oracle said the board has rejected i...

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...

What a week. It's amazing how much news you can make by throwing around a few billion dollars. We found that out by observing the sound (though maybe not the fury) of SAP and Oracle placing billion dollar bets on the future outlines of the enterprise software industry. In the last week or so, Oracl...

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...