synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced that it has acquired Hamburg, Germany-based Solonde AG, a privately held provider of powerful next-generation solutions for data integration and interface management needs, in an all cash transaction. The transaction closed on June 12, 2006.

synopsis: Informatica Corporation a leading provider of data integration software, has completed the acquisition of Itemfield, an innovative provider of data transformation technology that enables near-universal access to unstructured and semi-structured data.

synopsis: Procuri, the global leader in On Demand Supply Management solutions, has acquired TrueSource, Inc., a leading provider of spend intelligence and spend management solutions. The acquisition follows a year-long partnership in which the two companies have worked closely on sales and product alignment.

synopsis: Optimum Solutions, one of the industry's preeminent implementers of Oracle E-Business and PeopleSoft Enterprise solutions, has acquired Core Ops Inc., one of the central U.S.'s leading Oracle E-Business implementation firms. This strategic acquisition marks the most substantial expansion yet of Optimum's distinguished Oracle Center of Excellence.

synopsis: Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology to strengthen client innovation, has entered into an agreement to acquire controlling interest in Hicare Srl, a privately held business intelligence software company headquartered in Torino, Italy. Specific financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.

synopsis: TRX, Inc., a leading, independent provider of transaction processing and data integration solutions to the global travel industry, has completed the acquisition of Hi-Mark Software, an Atlanta-based data acquisition and business intelligence company.

synopsis: Axway has acquired Cyclone Commerce. This merger is in line with Axway's and Cyclone's global development strategy. The complementary geographic positioning of the two companies creates a global leader in the B2B, SOA and collaborative services domains, capable of serving the needs of the largest multinational corporations.

synopsis: Project Leadership Associates, Inc. (PLA), a leading provider in technology consulting services, announced today its recent acquisition of Nexus Consulting Group (Nexus), an information technology services firm that provides business intelligence (BI) solutions to companies throughout the Midwest.

synopsis: Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, has acquired the Weka open source data mining project developed by the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

synopsis: Pentaho Corp. announced the acquisition of the Kettle project. Kettle is the leading open source data integration project, and this combination adds powerful Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities and Enterprise Information Integration (EII) capabilities to Pentaho's comprehensive, open source BI suite.

synopsis: Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of data integration software, announced it has acquired Dublin, Ireland-based Similarity Systems, the leading provider of business-focused data quality solutions.

synopsis: Conversion Services International, Inc., a premier professional services firm focused on delivering the value in business intelligence, data warehousing and data management solutions, announced its acquisition of McKnight Associates, Inc., a highly regarded business intelligence and data warehouse consultancy.

synopsis: Satyam Computer Services Ltd., a leading global consulting and IT services provider, today announced that it has acquired Singapore-based Knowledge Dynamics Pte. Ltd., a high-end consulting solutions provider in Business Intelligence.

synopsis: Rocket Software, a Boston-based developer of Enterprise Infrastructure products, today announced that it has bought employee-owned ASTRAC, a leading developer of Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Mining software solutions that combine the power of IBM enterprise systems with popular Microsoft applications.

synopsis: Rocket Software, a Boston-based developer of Enterprise Infrastructure products, has purchased all of the intellectual property assets of the former Gentia Software from Open Ratings, Inc.

synopsis: Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions. Endeca provides powerful and highly intuitive products that help companies analyze unstructured data, and gain better business intelligence.

synopsis: Saama Technologies, Inc., a pure-play IP enabled Business Intelligence and Data Management solution provider, acquired InfoSTEP Inc. an emerging player in business intelligence services.

synopsis: IBM and Cognos announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Cognos, a publicly-held company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $5 billion USD or $58 USD per share, with a net transaction value of $4.9 billion USD.

synopsis: On January 15, 2008, SAP announced the successful all-cash tender offers for Business Objects S.A. securities.

synopsis: Reuters the global information company, has acquired all of the outstanding shares of ClearForest Ltd., a privately held provider of Text Analytics solutions, whose tagging platform and analytical products allow clients to derive precise business information from huge amounts of textual content.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced that it has acquired Hamburg, Germany-based Solonde AG, a privately held provider of powerful next-generation solutions for data integration and interface management needs, in an all cash transaction. The transaction closed on June 12, 2006.

synopsis: SAP AG announced that it has completed the acquisition of Sybase, Inc. As a result of this transaction, customers will be able to better harness today's explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers wherever they work so they can make faster, more informed decisions.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., an industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, announced that it has finalized an Asset Purchase Agreement with Aleri Inc. Aleri is a leading provider of enterprise-class complex event processing (CEP) technology and CEP-based solutions.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, announced that it has acquired paybox solutions AG, a global leader in mobile payment solutions.

synopsis: Sybase iAnywhere today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Coboplan, a market-leading Japanese provider of Geographic Information System software solutions.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, has acquired certain assets from Singapore-based iFoundry Systems, a privately held engineering services company focused on designing, developing and building wireless mobility solutions, in an all-cash transaction.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, completed the acquisition of Mobile 365, Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at $417 million. Net of acquired cash, the transaction is valued at $397 million. Mobile 365 will now operate as Sybase 365, a wholly-owned subsidiary.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced that it has acquired Hamburg, Germany-based Solonde AG, a privately held provider of powerful next-generation solutions for data integration and interface management needs, in an all cash transaction. The transaction closed on June 12, 2006.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Extended Systems Incorporated, a leading provider of mobile software solutions, in a cash merger with a total diluted equity value of approximately $71.3 million, or $4.460847 per share.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced continued investment in its information management technology portfolio with the acquisition of the technology and assets of Avaki Corporation, a market-leading, privately held provider of enterprise information integration (EII) software.

synopsis: Sybase, Inc. SY, a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today announced the completion of its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Dejima, Inc., a leading provider of mobile access solutions using natural language interface technology.

synopsis: HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trustgenix, Inc., a leading provider of federated identity management solutions. Upon the closing of the acquisition, HP plans to integrate Trustgenix and its software solutions into the HP OpenView management software portfolio.

synopsis: Oracle announced additions to its best-in-class identity management suite designed to meet the diverse needs of organizations across all industries. With the acquisition of OctetString, a leading provider of virtual directory software, Oracle has significantly strengthened its portfolio of industry-leading identity and access management products.

synopsis: BakBone Software a global provider of data protection software, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately-held Constant Data, Inc. of Hopkins, Minnesota. The acquisition marks BakBone's entry into the data replication and high availability software market.

synopsis: IBM Corp. said Wednesday that it has acquired Collation, a privately-held manufacturer of information technology software, for an undisclosed amount. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM said that the deal will strengthen its systems-management software portfolio and increase its ability to simplify the way companies manage their infrastructures.

synopsis: CA announced that it has completed its acquisition of Wily Technology, a leading provider of enterprise application management solutions, for $375 million in an all-cash transaction.

synopsis: Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced the successful completion of its tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of NEON Systems, Inc., by a subsidiary of Progress.

synopsis: Shah Capital Partners, a technology private equity firm, announced today that it has acquired Ingenient Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of embedded multimedia software solutions for delivering video, audio and data on a range of platforms.

synopsis: Iron Mountain Incorporated today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Marlborough, Mass.-based LiveVault Corporation. LiveVault is a leading provider of disk-based online server backup and recovery solutions for small and mid-size businesses and for corporations with remote offices.

synopsis: Aperture, the leading global provider of software for managing the physical infrastructure of data centers, has announced the completion of its acquisition by Emerson, effective March 25, 2008. This follows shareholder approval of the acquisition proposal first announced on February 25, 2008.

synopsis: Oracle Corporation announced that it had received approval of the European Commission and subsequently completed its acquisition of BEA Systems, Inc.

synopsis: Enea a world leading provider of telecom software and services, has acquired Swedish QiValue Technologies, a leading provider of Linux solutions. The acquisition will bolster Enea’s Linux expertise, strengthen its software offering, and increase Enea’s ability to offer Embedded Linux solutions.

synopsis: Wind River Systems, Inc., the global leader in Device Software Optimization has acquired the intellectual property including patents, copyrights, trademarks and associated product rights for RTLinux, the software industry’s only commercially-available, patented, hard real-time Linux technology developed by Finite State Machine Labs, Inc.

synopsis: Cisco Systems Inc., maker of networking and communications products, is buying approximately an 80 percent stake in Nuova Systems for $50 million. Nuova, based in Santa Clara, Calif. and founded by former Cisco executives, develops next-generation data systems.

synopsis: Clerity Solutions, Inc. has acquired Sun Microsystems' mainframe rehosting business. On June 30, 2006, Clerity acquired the intellectual property assets and hired Sun employees directly involved in the mainframe rehosting solution business.

synopsis: DCSD is the business unit of Diebold, Incorporated dedicated to campus card and housing management systems for colleges and universities.

synopsis: SAP AG announced that it has completed the acquisition of Sybase, Inc. As a result of this transaction, customers will be able to better harness today's explosion of data and deliver information and insight in real time to business consumers wherever they work so they can make faster, more informed decisions.

synopsis: VMware, Inc. and EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for VMware to acquire certain software products and expertise from EMC's Ionix IT management business.

synopsis: UnXis, Inc. announced that the purchase of The SCO Group, Inc. operating assets and intellectual property rights has been successfully completed. The SCO Group is a leading provider of software technology for distributed, embedded, network-based systems.

synopsis: Harman International Industries Incorporated, the global audio and infotainment group, announced the sale of its software operating systems unit, QNX Software Systems. Harman has sold the business to Research In Motion Limited of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, for US$200M.

synopsis: Fixstars Corporation, a pioneering company in Cell Broadband Engine™ based solutions, announced the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Terra Soft Solutions, the world renowned developer of Yellow Dog Linux.