While Informatica just out of the stock market by being redeemed by pension and investment funds, Symantec Veritas sells its subsidiary to a group of investors led by Carlyle Group. Infor acquires GT Nexus.
Specialized in data integration and halfway in the evolution to the cloud, Informatica decided to discard the tyranny of the stock market and to redeem a company controlled by the Permira investment fund and the investment board of the Canada Pension Plan (CPPIB). Microsoft and Salesforce have joined this operation, the amount is estimated at $ 5.3 billion, shareholders receiving 48.75 dollars or about the value of the latter therefore no premium quotation.
The new roadmap Editor includes four major areas integration in the cloud, integration of big data , master data management and data security. Informatica shows continue its evolution already begun about the software in SaaS mode and charging for use. This is accompanied by a change of rather conventional direction. Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and former CEO, only hold the position of Chairman of Informatica. Anil Chakravarthy, Product Director, is appointed deputy CEO of Informatica. Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe previously, joined Informatica as a member of the Board and Special Advisor.
Many IT companies have come out of the stock market in recent years, the spectacular operation being that of Dell in 2013 (The Revenge of Michael Dell). It will take some time to judge the relevance of this initiative. Informatica reported nearly 6,000 customers worldwide.
Symantec, the security specialist has decided to turn to part with its Veritas subsidiary, it in software backup / restore, management storage, archiving and disaster recovery plan. Symantec bought Veritas in 2005 to $ 13.5 billion and just sell it for a value of $ 8 billion. It is a failure.
Last year, Symantec had expressed its willingness to split into two companies – including HP – a company taking over the historical activities of Symantec and Veritas from side renamed Veritas technologies other. She finally opted for a more traditional solution resale to a group of investors. The transaction is expected to close the 1 st January. Carlyle appointed Bill Coleman – B of the BEA was acquired by Oracle – and previously CEO of publisher Cassatt Corp. Symantec said the Veritas disposal would allow it to focus on its traditional business: security. The action of the company lost 10.7% this year. The publisher knows virtually no growth for 6 years but reported a profitability that many companies would like to achieve. However, the editor like many others has some difficulties to pass license sales model to the subscription model. The reasons for this transfer are completely opposite to those displayed for redemption: this sale will allow each company to focus on its own operations, it will reduce the complexity and improve flexibility (see below what was indicated in the press redemption).
The reasons given for the merger in 2005
“The leader in storage software and the leader in security software will Provide enterprise customers with a more effective way to secure and manage Their Most Valuable Asset, Their information. The combined company will be uniquely Positioned to deliver information security and availability solutions across all platforms, from the desktop to the data center, from Consumers and small businesses and providers to organisms off service.
The combination will create significant benefits for the customers and partners of Both companies, Including:
– Breadth – A broad ranks of leading security and storage solutions at every tier of the enterprise – end point gateway , and implementation – across all platforms from a single vendor;
– Depth – Leading-edge technology combined with expertise to architect, design, and manage security, storage, and IT infrastructures; and
– Global Reach – Worldwide sales, service, and channel partner organisms Supporting millions of Consumers, and small, medium, wide and enterprise customers. “
On redemption, only three companies had a turnover of greater than + Symantec Veritas: Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. Last January, in an interview at the San Jose Mercury, the former CEO of Veritas, Mark Leslie, had issued a negative opinion on the merger (Veritas founding CEO Leslie is what Symantec About did wrong – and why cash is oxygen): ( …) “It was a poorly conceived merger. I do not think that my successor has organized this merger for the best reasons and the two companies were not going and does not go together. These are ten years of lost (Veritas was acquired in 2005). Veritas When I left, we had ambitious plans: buy VMWare and Red Hat to organize the company into three main activities: storage management, virtualization, and Linux (…) “. He continued rapid technological change: “VMWare was created the revolution of virtualization Docker and now we have an even greater and more rapid revolution. “
Infor acquires commercial cloud platform GT Nexus
Infor makes GT Nexus, the leading cloud business platform, for a total of $ 675 million (US). The transaction is expected to close within 45 days, depending on regulatory approvals.
About 25 000 companies are customers of GT Nexus, including 6 of the top 10 logistics companies and 30 financial institutions world, generating a total of over $ 100 billion (US) in goods each year and relying on the cloud network GT Nexus. Among the GT Nexus customers include Adidas Group, Caterpillar, Columbia Sportswear, DHL, Home Depot, Levi Strauss & amp; Co., Maersk, Pfizer, Procter & amp; Gamble and UPS.
GT Nexus offers a comprehensive order management system that coordinates business operations through various partners. Companies in sectors of retail, fashion, luxury goods and textiles and manufacturing can work with their suppliers to best manage shipments of goods to their customers, distribution centers and sales points, according to their requirements. The cloud has been specially designed to allow collaboration.
The GT Nexus network is integrated directly into the sales order management system suppliers. Buyers transmit control information via GT Nexus to their suppliers, financial institutions, freight carriers and logistics providers. GT Nexus becomes the order management system for the entire network and memory of the control information for all the partners.
Industrial Infor CloudSuite suites, including Infor CloudSuite Fashion, are Multi-tenant applications that are tailored by industry and are available through Amazon Web Services. Infor has more than 3,200 customers in the sectors of fashion, luxury and textiles and in the retail sector, many of them use GT Nexus. The addition of Infor technology CloudSuite GT Nexus network will enable companies to better integrate their data merchandising, marketing, and order instead of having to carry out extrapolated forecasts, which will maximize sales, operations and production planning.
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