Lang verwacht en uitgekomen: de overname van Cognos en wel door IBM. Een half jaar geleden (maart) verkondigde Cognos na de overname van Hyperion nog vol trots dat ze vanaf dat moment de grootste onafhankelijke BI leverancier waren. De overname van IBM kan aan de lijst worden toegevoegd.
Een lijst van de overnames tot nu toe
Bron: Colin White @ B-Eye network
- SAP acquired Business Objects, OutlookSoft, Pilot Software, Callixa, A2i
- Business Objects acquired Crystal Decisions, Infommersion, Cartesis, Nsite Software, SRC Software, OLAP@Work, ISoft, Acta, Medience, Firstlogic, Inxight Software,
FUZZY! Informatik
- Oracle
acquired Hyperion Solutions, IRI Express, Thinking Machines, Sunopsis,
One Meaning, TimesTen, Stellent, InnoDB, Siebel, PeopleSoft, J.D.
Edwards
- Hyperion acquired UpStream Software, Brio, Razza Solutions, Decisioneering
- Microsoft acquired ProClarity, Stratature
- IBM
acquired Cognos, Informix (including Metacube and Cloudscape), Ascential,
AlphaBlox, DWL, FileNet, DataMirror, Venetica, Trigo, Green Pasture, SRD
- Cognos acquired Celequest, Applix, Adaytum, DecisionStream, Frango
- Informatica acquired ItemField, Similarity, Striva, Influence
Persbericht IBM
On November 12, 2007 IBM announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Cognos.
Cognos is a recognized industry leader and one of the largest providers
of business intelligence and performance management solutions, with
more than 25,000 customers and over 3,000 partners. Together, IBM and
Cognos will become the industry's leading provider of technology and
services for Business Intelligence and Performance Management.
Business Intelligence is the top priority for CIOs and Performance Management
is a top priority for CFOs, driving a requirement for a common platform
to improve overall enterprise performance. Companies demand solutions
that provide a single, trusted view of their business to drive
real-time strategic and operational intelligence to a wide range of
internal and external users.
Cognos provides the only complete BI and performance management
platform, fully integrated on an open-standards-based service oriented
architecture (SOA), and has a strong history of supporting
heterogeneous application environments, consistent with IBM's approach.
The acquisition of Cognos extends IBM's Information On Demand
value proposition, providing the industry's leading and most complete
solutions for unlocking the business value of information, which will
extend IBM's ability to capitalize on emerging business growth
opportunities, while IBM's hardware, software and services capabilities
and extensive global reach will accelerate delivery of Cognos
solutions, enabling our customers to:
Bron: www.ibm.com
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