Oracle looks around for acquisitions
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Oracle Corp has reiterated that its stalled merger with PeopleSoft Inc is not the only acquisition opportunity it is considering, and said that talks with other potential targets are already in progress.
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A great deal of speculation has surrounded Oracle's (Nasdaq: ORCL) 18-month attempt to acquire PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT).
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LONDON -- Enterprise software giant Oracle may be known for big plans and bold moves, but the Redwood Shores, California, company has realized it also has to think small.
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It's part of Oracle's plan to focus on making enterprise management one of its core product offerings not just for Oracle environments, but across multivendor IT systems.
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On the same day its plans to&#160;buy middleware giant BEA Systems&#160;rocked the technology world, Oracle also revealed Wednesday that its string of niche acquisitions will continue through the purchase of document-capture vendor Captovation.
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A recent acquisition should help with its overall product offering, but more challenges lie ahead.
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As Oracle Corp. pushes forward with its hostile bid to acquire rival enterprise software maker PeopleSoft Inc. for $7.7 billion, it is also sizing up further acquisition
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Oracle Corp. , the world's top database software maker, is near an agreement to buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. , which makes software that lets companies analyze and track their performance, for about $3 billion, The New York Times said Wednesday in its online edition.
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Oracle&#39;s agreement to buy PeopleSoft for $26.50 per share, or approximately $10.3 billion, means a new era for users of PeopleSoft&#39;s enterprise applications.
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Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison&#39;s $8.8 billion hostile bid to buy PeopleSoft Inc. may benefit from arbitragers who have loaded up on the stock and are likely to tender their shares.
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JPMorgan Chase may be looking to open up its wallet and make an acquisition.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle is positioning itself to try and attract more SMBs as well as customers that have specific industry requirements and those with particular governance or compliance needs. The highly fragmented SMB market presents opportunities for large and small applications vendors to increase revenue if they can attract customers to adopt their ERP and CRM software. Both Oracle and its main rival, SAP, regularly come out with new initiatives designed to win more SMB hearts and minds. Oracle already believes it has done a lot of work to make it easier for SMBs to install its applications, according to President Charles Phillips. "Our next investment will be around distribution," he said Wednesday atÂ Oracle's launch of new versions of its E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel applications. Within the next few weeks, Oracle executives will begin a "world tour for SMBs," stopping in 20 cities and looking to sign up additional partners, Phillips added. Industry-specific applications is "a wide-open area," Phillips said, where many customers have previously used customized software they built themselves. On the industries side, Oracle has established four key business units to meet the needs of retail, communications, financial services, and utilities customers. "It's a new concept for Oracle," Phillips said. Each unit has its own general manager and is responsible for its own profits and losses. Establishing the business units was vital to retaining the key management executives with industry-specific expertiseÂ Oracle gained throughÂ the acquisitions of companies, he added. These include retail software vendor Retek, communications software firm Portal, and most recently, utilities applications provider SPL WorldGroupÂ in November, as well as the 82 percent stake Oracle holds in Indian financial software vendor i-flex Solutions. "It was something of a lessons learned story," John Wookey, senior vice president of applications at Oracle, said in an interview Wednesday. He referred back to the company's experience in 1997 when it acquired Treasury Services, a profitability and risk analysis software provider. When Oracle completed that deal, it moved the Treasury developer team over to Oracle's development operation and mapped all the other Treasury staff including sales and marketing over to the equivalent organizations within Oracle. Over time, while Oracle was able to retain most of the Treasury developers, very few of the skilled sales organization who were educated on the Treasury software remained with the company. "When we did the Retek acquisition, we didnât want to lose that expertise, so we created the retail unit and, most recently, the utilities unit for SPL World," Wookey said. Oracle may look to set up additional industry business units, he added. The vendor already has a public sector group that is separately organized from the general applications sales operations. Another business unit Oracle has recently put in place is a GRC (governance, risk and compliance) organization, Wookey said, which was formed after the vendor acquired enterprise content management vendor Stellent in December. Along with content management, Stellent also provides compliance and records management software and expertise to help customers manage enterprise risk across their entire organizations. The GRC unit will be home to that part of Stellent as well as internal controls software that's featured in E-Business Suite and in PeopleSoft, respectively, Wookey said. In May, Oracle's arch-rivalÂ SAP announced its plans to establish a GRC business unit after acquiring compliance software vendor Virsa Systems. Â
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NEW YORK -- Oracle Corp. , the world's top database software maker, is near an agreement to buy Hyperion Solutions Corp. , which makes software that lets companies analyze and track their performance, for about $3 billion, The New York Times said yesterday in its online edition.
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Got to circle around those SAP wagons Oracle loves buying companies and it simply can't break/won't break the habit. It's got ambitious growth targets to meet and rivals' market share to take.â¦
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NEW YORK, October 8  - Oracle Corporation (ORCL.NAS) is considering altering its takeover bid for the rival business software company, PeopleSoft, with discussions leaning towards a potential decline in the current offer of $7.
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Oracle is now OracleSoft, and that means SAP will soon have some real competition on its hands. Oracle&#39;s recent monster user conference, the first that united its technology, database and
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Continuing its buying spree, Oracle has acquired a maker of employee role-mapping software.