Oracle Buys Network Intelligence Company Netsure
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The acquisition will boost Oracle's telecom offerings with Netsure's communications applications suite.
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Oracle has acquired Bridgestream, a maker of software that helps companies map employee responsibilities, Oracle said Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle Corp. intends to acquire another 20 percent of the equity of Indian financial software company I-Flex Solutions Ltd. Oracle informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai on Wednesday of its intention. Oracle has offered to buy 16.63 million equity shares in I-Flex for Indian Rupees 1,475.00 (US$32) per share. The deal will total about $531 million if I-Flex shareholders accept the offer, which opens Nov. 6 and closes Nov. 25. Oracle of Redwood Shores, California, already holds a majority stake in I-Flex, based in Mumbai. The company announced last month that it would invest $125 million in I-Flex to increase its stake from 52.5 percent to 55.1 percent. The investment would help I-Flex fund its $122.6 million cash acquisition of Mantas Inc., a vendor of anti-money laundering and compliance software and services in Herndon, Virginia, I-Flex said. Oracle had said in August that it intended to increase its stake in I-Flex to meet Indian regulations regarding the acquisition of shares and takeovers. A number of multinational companies that have bought stakes in Indian companies, have then bought out joint venture partners or minority shareholders. In 2003, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) bought out the public share holding in Digital GlobalSoft Ltd., a software development and services subsidiary in Bangalore in which it had a majority holding. HP said at the time that it did not want a listed subsidiary in India because then it would be accountable to two sets of shareholders -- HPâs and Digital GlobalSoft's. IBM Corp. also bought out its joint venture partner, the Tata Group, to run its Indian operation as a wholly owned subsidiary. Oracle has, however, stated that it would like to retain the independence of the management and operations of I-Flex.
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Oracle has agreed to buy BEA Systems for about $8.5 billion, or $19.375 per share, the companies announced.
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Computer Associates plans to buy security software firm Netegrity, in a deal valued at $430 million (Â£241m). The acquisition will strengthen the firm&#39;s position in the IT security market and builds on last
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Continuing its buying spree, Oracle has acquired a maker of employee role-mapping software.
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In a deal that could expand its identity and access management (IAM) portfolio, Computer Associates (Quote, Chart) is buying software security developer Netegrity for $430 million in cash.
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Corporate computing software giant Computer Associates International Inc. said yesterday it will pay $430 million in cash to acquire Waltham data security firm Netegrity Inc.
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SAP is buying a small Indian software company to help beef up the business process management capabilities in its NetWeaver applications platform.It is purchasing Yasu Technologies, a maker of business rules management software, which helps ensure that business processes automated through software are in compliance with a company&#39;s rules and regulations.SAP characterized the deal, announced at its Tech Ed conference in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday, as a &quot;fill in&quot; acquisition that would bridge a gap in its technologies. The deal is due to close this month and financial terms were not disclosed.Several vendors, including SAP, are providing software tools that allow companies to automate common business processes, such as issuing a purchase order or checking inventory levels, with the goal of making them more efficient.But SAP does not yet offer tools for managing these processes, and buying Yasu will help it to add such BPM (business process management) capabilities to NetWeaver.SAP will begin pilot tests of its first BPM product, code-named Galaxy, in the first quarter of next year. The technology acquired from Yasu will be integrated with Galaxy around the middle of next year, said Klaus Kreplin, SAP&#39;s head of NetWeaver technology.Yasu&#39;s software helps companies to enforce the rules that their business processes must abide by. If a company automates a project approval process, for example, Yasu will send projects under a certain budget to a midlevel manager for approval, and more costly projects to a senior manager.&quot;The nice thing is, you can define rules and make them available as a service that can be integrated with other applications,&quot; Kreplin said.Yasu was founded in 1999 and has about 120 employees. Customers include the automaker BMW, according to its Web site.BPM is one of several areas SAP is entering to compete better with its main applications rival, Oracle. SAP will also offer software for building composite applications, called the NetWeaver Composition Environment, and developing hosted applications for smaller companies, called SAP Business ByDesign.The Galaxy software will be integrated with NetWeaver Composition Environment next year. Eventually that, in turn, will be offered as a part of Business ByDesign, Kreplin said, although he wouldn&#39;t say when.Last week SAP said it would&#160;buy business intelligence vendor Business Objects&#160;for S$6.8 billion. A few days later&#160;Oracle offered to buy BEA Systems, whose software competes with SAP&#39;s NetWeaver, for $6.7 billion, but BEA called the offer too low.SAP CEO Henning Kagermann told the Financial Times of London over the weekend that SAP won&#39;t enter a bidding war for BEA, and that its strategy is still to grow its two core businesses -- applications and middleware -- organically.But he wouldn&#39;t rule out further big acquisitions in areas where SAP is not already strong. &quot;We are categorically not excluding further big acquisitions,&quot; Kagermann said, according to the Financial Times.The company also continues to snap up smaller companies. SAP has bought more than a dozen vendors in the past three years, according to IDC, including five in 2005, three in 2006, and six so far in 2007, including Yasu and Business Objects. That compares to more than 30 acquisitions for Oracle, a few of which were much larger deals.
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NEW YORK, Dec 13  - Following are key facts about Oracle, which is the number two global software company behind Microsoft, and PeopleSoft, a business software firm that agreed Monday to be bought after an 18-month battle.
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In a move to strengthen its position as a global provider of IT and networking services, BT Group PLC has agreed to buy U.S.-based Infonet Services Corp., the companies announced Monday.
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Oracle Corp , the world's third-largest software maker, won a three-month-long campaign to buy BEA Systems Inc  by raising its bid for the company by 14 percent to $8.5 billion.
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Networking giant buys start-up P-Cube, a maker of software for controlling, monitoring and billing for IP services.
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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 has agreed to buy BEA Systems for around $8.5 billion, the two companies announced today.
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Computer Associates International Inc has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire security software solutions provider Netegrity Inc in an all cash merger valued at approximately $430 million.
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Computer Associates Wednesday announced that it plans to buy identity and access management software maker Netegrity of Waltham, Mass.