synopsis: IBM announced that it has completed the acquisition of Green Hat, a privately held company jointly headquartered in London, England and Wilmington, Delaware. Green Hat helps customers improve the quality of software applications by enabling developers to leverage cloud computing technologies.

synopsis: Candescent Partners announced it has acquired SoftBase, a provider of DB2 z/OS coding, testing and deployment tools that accelerate application development. SoftBase is recognized as a leading provider of application testing and tuning solutions for IBM's DB2® database utilizing the OS/390® and z/OS® operating systems.

synopsis: SmartBear Software, AutomatedQA and Pragmatic Software merge. The combined company, SmartBear® Software, was created to make enterprise-class software development and testing tools easily accessible to small and large development teams at a fraction of the cost of other software solutions.

synopsis: Micro Focus International plc announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Application Testing / Automated Software Quality business of Compuware Corporation.

synopsis: SmartBear Software has acquired Eviware Software, creators of soapUI and loadUI, the world’s leading testing software for Web Services. After tripling SmartBear’s business in one year, this acquisition further accelerates SmartBear’s momentum and significantly expands its global user community.

synopsis: Coverity, Inc., the leader in automatically improving the quality and security of C, C++, C# and Java source code, announced the acquisition of Solidware Technologies, a Colorado-based software readiness management vendor.

synopsis: Exceptional announced that it has acquired Airbrake, the world's largest error tracking application, from thoughtbot, a Boston based web design and development company. Airbrake will continue to empower companies like Groupon, Square and AT&T.

synopsis: Novint Technologies, Inc., the pioneer of 3D touch for consumer computing, announces the acquisition of Tournabout Incorporated, which develops and markets video game contest and community infrastructure software. The acquisition will add significant new features to Novint’s products and website.

synopsis: TestFlight, a platform that lets developers distribute test builds of their apps to a beta audience, has been acquired by Burstly, a platform that helps developers track and monetize their apps. Together the duo has created a platform that'll let developers distribute their apps and track both their usage and performance.

synopsis: Futuremark® announced that it has sold its Mobile and Embedded business unit to Rightware™, a new spin off company set up to accelerate the development and marketing of Futuremark’s benchmarks for the mobile and embedded industries. Rightware will be run by former Futuremark CEO Tero Sarkkinen.

synopsis: Terracotta, a recognized leader in infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability, announced the acquisition of open source job scheduling software Quartz. Quartz is the most widely used Java scheduler in the world, with tens of thousands of enterprise production deployments at companies such as Vodafone, Level 3, Cisco and Adobe.

synopsis: Wmode, a leading managed-services provider of mobile Internet services to operators, announced the acquisition of Widality, an industry-leading B2B mobile app development and services company. Wmode and Widality, two privately held companies, are joining to capitalize on the rapidly growing smartphone application opportunity.

synopsis: Ipswitch's Network Management Division, developers of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management software, announced that it has acquired iOpus Software, a leading provider of Web application performance testing and monitoring solutions from the cloud.

synopsis: Spirent Communications plc has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held The Fanfare Group, Inc., a leading provider of test automation solutions that help equipment manufacturers and service providers accelerate time to market and improve product quality in the face of rapidly growing complexity.

synopsis: Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced that it has acquired Exor Corporation. Exor information modeling software provides for the management and operations of linear networks for infrastructure, including roads and railways.

synopsis: FrontRange Solutions, a leader in IT software solutions, has acquired Centennial Software. Centennial, a recognized market leader in dynamic infrastructure management products, including auto-discovery, inventory management and license management solutions, serves more than 3,200 supported customers worldwide.

synopsis: ARM® announced that it has acquired Obsidian Software, a market leader in verification and validation used in the design of increasingly complex processors. Obsidian Software is a privately-owned company, with offices in Austin, Texas.

synopsis: BackOffice Associates, LLC, the leader in ERP Data Migration, Data Governance and Master Data Management solutions for SAP, Oracle and other ERP vendors, announced the acquisition of HiT Software®. HiT Software®, Inc., is a provider of heterogeneous Data Integration and Change Data Capture (CDC) software products for global organizations.

synopsis: SpringSoft Incorporated, the largest EDA company in Asia and the first to be publicly traded announced the completion of its merger with Novas Software, Inc., the acquisition of four additional EDA companies, and several key management appointments.

synopsis: Worksoft, announced the acquisition of TestFactory, a premier provider of performance and life cycle management solutions that optimize application quality and lower the total cost of ownership for new ERP implementations, ongoing application upgrades, and new business application extensions including analytics and web-based services.

synopsis: IBM announced that it has completed the acquisition of Green Hat, a privately held company jointly headquartered in London, England and Wilmington, Delaware. Green Hat helps customers improve the quality of software applications by enabling developers to leverage cloud computing technologies.

synopsis: IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Tealeaf Technology, Inc., a leading provider of customer experience analytics software that helps organizations to gain intelligence and react more swiftly to consumer trends in today's digitally transformed marketplace.

synopsis: IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vivisimo, a leading provider of federated discovery and navigation software that helps organizations access and analyze big data across the enterprise. Vivisimo provides enterprises with information optimization solutions that help maximize the business value of information.

synopsis: IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Varicent Software Incorporated, a leading provider of analytics software for compensation and sales performance management. Varicent software automates and analyzes the collection and reporting of sales data across finance, sales, human resources and IT departments.

synopsis: IBM announced it has completed the acquisition of Worklight, a privately held Israeli-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets. Worklight will become an important piece of IBM's mobility strategy, helping clients dramatically reduce mobile application time to market, cost and complexity.

synopsis: IBM announced that it has completed the acquisition of Green Hat, a privately held company jointly headquartered in London, England and Wilmington, Delaware. Green Hat helps customers improve the quality of software applications by enabling developers to leverage cloud computing technologies.

synopsis: Rocket Software, Inc., a global software development firm that builds enterprise products and delivers enterprise solutions, announced that it has closed the acquisition of the iCluster business from IBM. iCluster offers software for High Availability/Disaster Recovery.

synopsis: IBM has completed its acquisition of Emptoris Inc. Emptoris solutions bring more intelligence to procurement and supply chain operations with spend, supplier and contract management for Smarter Commerce. Emptoris' solutions complement multiple IBM offerings.

synopsis: IBM has completed its acquisition of DemandTec. DemandTec delivers cloud-based analytics software that enables businesses to examine different customer buying scenarios, both online and in-store. It allows companies to spot trends and shopping insights to make better price, promotion, and assortment decisions.

synopsis: IBM announced that it has completed its acquisition of Curam Software Ltd. The company expands IBM's ability to help cities and governments serve citizens better by adopting more intelligent and efficient ways to assess needs, execute social programs, and maximize program results.

synopsis: IBM, the world's largest information technology company, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Platform Computing, a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Platform Computing is a leader in cluster and grid management software.

synopsis: IBM, the world's largest information technology company, has completed the acquisition of Q1 Labs Inc., a provider of security intelligence software. Q1 Labs' advanced analytics and correlation capabilities can automatically detect and flag actions across an enterprise that deviate from prescribed policies and typical behavior.

synopsis: IBM announced the closing of its acquisition of Algorithmics. The acquisition expands IBM's business analytics capabilities in the area of financial risk. Algorithmics provides software and services for improved business insights at banks and investment and insurance organizations to assess risk and address regulatory challenges.

synopsis: IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of i2. i2 expands IBM's big data analytics software for smarter cities by helping both public and private entities in government, law enforcement, retail, insurance and other industries access and analyze information they need to combat crime, fraud and other security threats.

synopsis: IBM has announced that it has completed the acquisition of TRIRIGA, Inc., a provider of facility and real estate management software solutions. The acquisition of TRIRIGA will help accelerate IBM's efforts to bring intelligence in the smarter buildings market.

synopsis: IBM announced it has closed the acquisition of BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE), a privately held company based in Santa Clara, CA. BLADE specializes in software and devices that route data and transactions to and from servers.

synopsis: IBM acquired Clarity Systems. Clarity Systems delivers financial governance software that enables organizations to automate the process of collecting, preparing, certifying and controlling financial statements for electronic filing, in support of mandates by the SEC and other financial regulatory agencies.

synopsis: IBM announced that it has acquired PSS Systems, a privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif. PSS Systems' software helps organizations analyze, automate and implement information governance policies across massive amounts of electronic business information and dispose of that information in an automated way.

synopsis: IBM announced the closing of its acquisition of Netezza Corporation. Netezza will expand IBM's business analytics initiatives to help clients gain faster insights into their business information, with increased performance at a lower cost of ownership.

synopsis: IBM announced that it has completed its acquisition of OpenPages, a leading provider of software that helps companies more easily identify and manage risk and compliance activities across the enterprise through a single management system.

synopsis: IBM announced the closing of its acquisition of Unica Corporation. Through Unica, IBM is acquiring enterprise and cloud-based marketing software solutions that help businesses streamline and automate marketing processes, and understand and predict customer preferences.

synopsis: Hoping to pave a new path to its popular Web site, Yahoo Inc. has acquired Konfabulator, a tiny software maker that provides a computer platform for monitoring the weather, stock prices and a wealth of other customized information without opening a Web browser.

synopsis: Cosmi has announced the acquisition of Chaska, Minnesota-based ValuSoft, the PC value line of THQ Inc. The combination will make the new ValuSoft+Cosmi venture the second largest U.S. Retail Publisher of PC Games in units sold and the #1 Retail Publisher in the Value Software Category by units sold.