India's Aztec acquires software testing company for 12.1 mln dlrs
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Indian information technology firm Aztec announced it would acquire software testing company Disha Technologies for 12.1 million dollars.
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Linux desktop and server vendor Xandros on Wednesday acquired Scalix, which develops an open-source e-mail, calendar, and groupware platform.
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The software giant makes a small acquisition to bolster its moves for unified communications.
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Corporate licences make for happy software vendors
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InfoWorld - EMC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Valyd Software, a Hyderabad, India, vendor of software for securing enterprise data. EMC did not disclose the sum it will pay for Valyd, a privately held company.
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Symantec Corp. has agreed to acquire @Stake Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of IT security consulting services.
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Activision Inc.  said it agreed to  acquire Dublin-based DemonWare, a provider of network  middleware technologies for games, to strengthen its online  multiplayer development capabilities.
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The business intelligence software company joins the M&A spree.
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Mindreef is bolstering security verification in its server-based SOA testing software Tuesday and adding three new client products for SOA quality.The company's SOAPscope Server 6.1 enables teams to test the quality of SOA, Mindreef CTO Frank Grossman said. The product is focused on the XML layer."[XML is] pretty much what is communicated across the wire between all the pieces of [an] SOA so it's very important," said Grossman.Version 6.1 makes it easier to test for WS-Security adherence in an SOA. "Now, we have security profiles, which means you can have an architect set up all the pieces they need," Grossman said. Testers can verify security components, such as X.509 certificates.The three client products being added to the SOAPscope line include:* Architect 6.1, offering design-time governance and an SOA quality and testing platform for policy rules authoring, design-time support, prototyping, change-time, and run-time support. * Tester 6.1, for load testing and test automation. Quality problems and potential performance bottlenecks can be spotted. * Developer 6.1, featuring tools for problem diagnosis and resolution, unit testing, and support of service consumers. Developers and engineers can build and test Web services and SOA and automate XML-oriented tasks.Functionality of the three client products is included in SOAPscope Server 6.1.The products are available Monday. SOAPscope Server 6.1 costs $1,499 per year per seat while Developer, Tester, and Architect are available for annual subscriptions of $299, $799, and $999 respectively.
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A Waltham maker of security software is being acquired by software behemoth Computer Associates in a cash deal worth almost a half-billion dollars, the companies announced yesterday.
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EMC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Valyd Software, a Hyderabad, India, vendor of software for securing enterprise data. EMC did not disclose the sum it will pay for Valyd, a privately held company.
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Borland Software has acquired TeraQuest Metrics, a consulting firm in Austin, Texas, that specializes in helping companies improve processes for application development, workforce management, and operations, Borland announced Tuesday.
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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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By Mike Freeman, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Sep. 23--DivX, a San Diego maker of video compression software, got a  good start on its first day as a publicly traded company yesterday as its  shares jumped nearly 17 percent.
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(InfoWorld) - Capgemini has agreed to acquire the software services company Software Architects to expand its presence in key U.S. cities, the French IT services provider said Thursday. The purchase of Software Architects, which focuses on project management, architecture and business technology services, will provide a gateway for new business in cities such as Tampa, Florida, and Phoenix, Arizona, according to Gapgemini. The software services company, which is located in Chicago, has a strong focus on MicrosoftÂ and IBMÂ technologies. Software Architects, a 500-employee company with revenues of $68 million in 2006, will be folded into Sogeti USA, a subsidiary of Capgemini. Sogeti will then have 2,000 employees in 24 U.S. cities, Capgemini said. The deal is subject to the approval Software Architects shareholders, antitrust clearance and customary closing conditions, Capgemini said. No financial details were disclosed. Capgemini has lowered costs for customers by delivering a mix of offshore services with on-site expertise, the company said. It has pushed into India and plans to have about 10,000 staff there by the end of this year. In October 2006,Â Capgemini bought Kanbay InternationalÂ for $1.25 billion to increase its ability to deliver services from India and gain access to Kanbay's large financial institution clients. A month prior, Capgemini acquired aÂ 51 percent stake in Unilever India Shared Services, a finance and accounting business process outsourcing operation in India belonging to European consumer goods maker Unilever Group.
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Software AG has bought the application modernization activities of Jacada, adding to its portfolio of tools for prolonging the life of mainframe applications by giving them a Web interface.
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Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has acquired GIANT Company Software Inc., a provider of top-rated anti-spyware and Internet security products.