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On July 28th, 2010, Adobe announced it’s intention to acquire Switzerland-based Day Software for approximately $240 Million USD. (see press release from Adobe)
The Past, Present and Future of Adobe
With the acquisition of Day Software (highly scalable, standards and open source-oriented [not as deployment/sales model, but as underpinnings]), along with the [...]
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Invention Machine (headquartered in Boston) announced yesterday the availability of Invention Machine Goldfire 6.0 with integrated collaboration and expert identification technologies to further accelerate product innovation. (see press release from Invention Machine)
Beyond Individual Innovators
Historically, Invention Machine’s Goldfire has been oriented towards providing an individually focused innovation “workbench” for the lone [...]
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Iron Mountain announced yesterday that it had acquired Mimosa Systems, Inc., an enterprise-class content archiving solutions provider, for approximately $112 million in cash. (see press release via Iron Mountain or coverage on TechCrunch)
Colliding the Cloud and Premise
Iron Mountain is a curious company with a very large installed base from it’s [...]
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Intridea announced today a new open source, free Web Part (an add-on for SharePoint) to embed Present.ly (Intridea’s enterprise microblogging offering) within SharePoint. (see press release and Intridea site)
Enter Microblogging
With the rise of Twitter in the consumer-facing world, has come the enterprise-facing versions of microblogging, with solutions such as dedicated [...]
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PBWorks (formerly PBWiki) has announced a “Real-time Collaboration Update” – bringing integrated Instant Messaging collaboration, Live Notifications (activity streams), Live Editing (rather than standard wiki asynchronous editing) and announced (shipping Q1 2010) integrated Voice Collaboration (on-demand voice conferencing). (See PBworks and PR for more details)
Wiki Acceleration
The Wiki World has transformed [...]
IAM Alert: Amazon.com has announced a “definitive agreement” to purchase the ecommerce, “powered by service” Zappos.com for 10 million shares of Amazon stock (current market value of $807 million). (see the Letter from the CEO – Tony Hsieh – to Zappos employees, describing the drivers and benefits behind the acquisition)
Amazon has long been held up [...]
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Google has been resting on it’s laurels (simple/streamlined search) and primary revenue stream (AdWords) for far too long, it would seem.
Introduced last week at the Google I/O developer’s conference is their latest entree the “Google Wave” offering (see preview announcement of Google Wave at Google). (Note: This offering is currently [...]
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Today OpenText announced plans to acquire Vignette. (See press release.)
On one hand this move makes sense. OpenText has clearly been on a growth through acquisition strategy, and this move is aligned with that. As I blogged about last January, Tom Jenkins, OpenText Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chairman, [...]
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Crawford Technologies announced the availability of a service to provide transactional documents for visually impaired customers in alternate formats. Crawford Technologies uses existing customer communications data to produce the requisite alternative formats for its clients’ visually impaired customers.
This is a clear example of how intelligent content delivery technology can be [...]
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The field of “independent” ECM vendors just shrank again, as Autonomy announced that it plans on acquiring ECM vendor Interwoven for US$775 million. In a word – WOW.
This announcement is loaded with sub-plots and interesting twists and turns.
It underscores the financial strength of Autonomy, who also just posted their best [...]
