IBM to buy audit, compliance firm
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IBM plans to acquire Consul Risk Management to deepen the auditing and compliance functionality of IBM's Tivoli systems management software.
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On Monday, IBM announced its intent to acquire all of the outstanding shares of DataMirror for $161 million. The deal, which is subject to approvals and other closing conditions, is expected to close in the third quarter.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM liked Watchfire's Web application security software so much it plans to buy the company for an undisclosed sum, it said Wednesday. Watchfire develops software for identifying vulnerabilities in Web applications and for auditing sites for compliance with regulations on corporate governance, data privacy, or accessibility. IBM plans to fold the Waltham, Massachusetts, company into its Rational division, adding Watchfire's security compliance and quality testing functions to Rational's software delivery tools. The two companies are no strangers: Watchfire's 800 customers include IBM, Dell, Sun Microsystems, and a host of others in the financial, pharmaceutical and entertainment industries. IBM's Global Services division is also a partner and reseller, according to Watchfire. Other developers of application security testing tools include CenzicÂ and SPI Dynamics. Cenzic, in Santa Clara, California, has worked with application development tool specialist Borland SoftwareÂ in the past, and its current partners include IBM and Mercury Interactive, now a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard. Watchfire developed its WebXM auditing tool in house, but obtained its flagship AppScan product through theÂ acquisition of SanctumÂ in July 2004. IBM expects to close the deal in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approval. Â
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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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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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IBM yesterday announced plans to buy Consul Risk Management, a compliance and security software company with the bulk of its developers in Herndon -- the third local software firm bought in IBM's recent buying binge.
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IBM&#39;s $5 billion acquisition of business intelligence software vendor Cognos took a step forward on Thursday as European regulators gave their approval to the deal.After examining the acquisition, the European Commission said in a statement that it &quot;would not give rise to competition concerns, since the parties&#39; combined market share would be moderate.&quot;IBM announced its intention to buy Cognos, based in Ottawa, in November, saying it hoped to combine the Cognos software with IBM&#39;s back-end database products. They hope to close the deal by the end of March, but there are still a few regulatory requirements to be met, including the approval of Canada&#39;s minister of industry.Business intelligence software is used to analyze data from different sources within a company and help management get a better picture of the business. Several business intelligence software vendors have been acquired recently, including&#160;Hyperion, purchased by Oracle, and&#160;Business Objects, purchased by SAP.IBM to date has partnered with business intelligence software vendors, providing the back-end infrastructure components. But changing customer demands sparked its interest in Cognos, according to Ambuj Goyal, general manager of information management in IBM&#39;s software group and a key player in the Cognos deal.&quot;Now, more and more clients are saying, &#39;We are not an integration technology business, we are in a business-outcome business. You do the integration,&#39;&quot; he said in a recent interview. &quot;More and more clients are not doing best-of-breed purchases.&quot;(Chris Kanaracus in Boston contributed to this story.)&#160;
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India's Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a US$45 million, 5-year services agreement to modernize CBDT's IT Infrastructure.
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IBM going Chrismas shopping The year may be coming to a close, but IBM keeps the acquisitions coming with this week's purchase of risk management specialist Consul.â¦
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IBM  and Lehman Brothers  have agreed to buy a small slice of software company Kingdee , kicking off an alliance intended to help the U.S. firm expand its footprint in a $10 billion domestic market and further the Chinese company's global ambitions.
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IBM's Solution for Compliance in a Regulated Environment is a suite of middleware tools that includes document and data management, application integration, business process management and collaboration features.
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Intuit Inc.  said on Thursday  it will buy Digital Insight Corp.  for $1.35 billion, a  move that expands the maker of the popular TurboTax and Quicken  financial software into online banking services.
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Business software maker BEA Systems Inc  has agreed to be acquired by Oracle Corp  for $8.5 billion, the companies said on Wednesday.
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IBM to acquire NovusCG, a storage technology provider.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has fully acquired Global Value Solutions SA, a Brazilian IT services provider serving the small and medium business market.  Since 2001, GVS has been a joint venture by IBM and Fiat, with each company holding a 50-percent stake.
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Xmas shopping for in-memory database software IBM announced this morning that it will buy privately-held database software developer Solid Information Technology for an undisclosed sum.â¦
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International Business Machines   Corp said on Friday it has agreed to buy in-memory  database software provider Solid Information Technology from  private owners for an undisclosed sum.