IBM grabs content management company
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IBM plans to acquire content-management software maker Venetica, the 18th acquisition that Big Blue&#39;s Software Group has made since 2001.
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Leveraging its acquisition of Trego, an ISV with a product information management system, IBM unveiled additional middleware components to work with the Trego technology to ensure product data synchronization between retailers and suppliers.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. is introducing a range of new products and services, many based on technologies coming from recently acquired companies, aimed at helping businesses better manage and take advantage of their various software and hardware systems. The new offerings stem from IBM acquisitions including MRO Software Inc., Micromuse Inc., Rembo Technology SARL, Isogon Corp., Collation Inc. and CIMS Lab Inc. and aim to offer businesses simple and central ways to manage their technology assets. IBM plans to release this month a new version of Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database software that will include technology from application resource mapping software developer Collation, a company IBM acquired late last year. The new software integrates IT information spread across the enterprise, including information about servers, storage devices, networks, middleware and applications. The software could help businesses notice, for example, that an IT problem stems from a change in an application such as a security update, rather than from hardware or software failure, and help pinpoint and fix the problem quickly. Another new release, IBM Tivoli Capacity Process Manager, which will become available in the fourth quarter, predicts computing capacity and performance, thus helping users reduce network slowdowns and outages. The software is part of IBM's process manager family of products that automate workflows. Two additional new products are available immediately. One is the IBM Service Management Self-Assessment Toolkit, a free online service that helps users focus on priorities when designing a service management strategy by rating the importance of internal processes. The IBM Tivoli Unified Process Composer, also available now, aims to help new customers begin employing service management. In addition to the new products, IBM also launched the IBM Service Management Partner Ecosystem with a dozen other companies including Avnet Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Nortel Networks Corp. The companies say they'll work together to build and promote products based on IBM's platforms and industry standards.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Kyriba Corporation has selected IBM as its managed hosting provider for North America.
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Iron Mountain plans to acquire Connected Corp. to enhance its online backup and recovery portfolio.
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Continuing its effort to build its business consulting unit, IBM will acquire Equitant, a provider of business transformation outsourcing services, the companies announced Wednesday.
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Snapbridge Software brings content management to the little guys.
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IBM&#39;s planned purchase of Venetica provides Big Blue with one more piece in its on-demand computing strategy. The challenge will be to seamlessly meld Venetica&#39;s unstructured-data expertise with structured-data management.
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IBM Corp.'s plan to acquire data mobility specialist Softek Storage Solutions Corp. marks another step along the way in transforming IBM's services business, according to company executives.
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IBM has acquired a Web conferencing service provider WebDialogs, will add it to software-as-a-service offerings.
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Backed up and integrated IBM plans on purchasing Ontario-based data protection firm DataMirror for approximately $161m. IBM will pay cash for the company, acquiring all outstanding stock for $25.88 per share.â¦
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IBMÂ is looking to add real-time capabilities to its data integration software by buying Canadian firm DataMirrorÂ for about C$170 million(US$162.3 million).
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IBM acquires software developer Venetica to pump up the content-handling capabilities of its DB2 platform. By Paul McDougall and Rick Whiting.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced a series of quick start software bundles for the DB2 9 data server designed to help clients adapt their information management environments to meet new standards for handling XML data.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle is making content and records management tools available to users of its database in a bid to gain share in the base-level content management software market. Released Wednesday, Content Database (Content DB) and Records Database (Records DB) are optional add-ons to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition. The tools are designed to help Oracle customers and partners securely manage unstructured content such as Microsoft Office documents, PDF (portable document format) files, document images and graphics. Oracle firstÂ announced the two offeringsÂ in June, positioning them as part of the company's plan to bring content management to the masses. Using the tools, users can capture, classify, retain and then get rid of content based on internal corporate policies. Content DB allows organizations to consolidate their unstructured content into an Oracle Database repository, while Records DB manages the storage and disposal of content. On a Tuesday conference call to discuss Oracle'sÂ first-quarter fiscal 2007 financial results, Charles Phillips, company co-president, singled out Content DB and Records DB as future revenue generators for Oracle. Oracle doesn't view Content DB and Records DB as replacements for enterprise content management (ECM) software from the likes of EMC's Documentum, FileNet, IBM, Interwoven, and Open Text. Instead, Oracle has positioned its tools asÂ providing more basic functionality, while the traditional ECM companies focus on offering more sophisticated capabilities. However, moves by Oracle and Microsoft to enter the lower levels of the content management market are one of the factors leading toÂ consolidation in the ECM market. Last month, IBM announced a bid toÂ acquire FileNet for $1.6 billion, while Open Text moved in on ECM rival Hummingbird making aÂ $489 million offerÂ for the company. With Open Text publicly supporting the June unveiling of Content DB and Records DB and increasing its closeness to Oracle, some analysts are predicting the database and applications vendor may end up acquiring Open Text for its ECM expertise. Users can download Content DB and Records DB from Oracle's Web site. Both tools are priced at $50,000 per processor. The two products run on most Oracle Database platforms including Linux, Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX, Sun Microsystems' Solaris, and IBM's AIX5L. There's also a client version of Content DB which runs on Microsoft's Windows.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software and business consulting services to accelerate the company's global Information on Demand initiative, which is aimed at helping clients better compete and pursue new business opportunities by using information as a strategic asset.
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CHARLOTTE - In a move it says will strengthen its bid to dominate information integration markets, IBM announced Thursday that it was acquiring Venetica, a Charlotte-based developer of database integration tools.