On this episode of Just Clarity, Connie Moore, Alan Pelz-Sharpe, and Jake DiMare talk about the pending OpenText acquisition of Documentum. Jake Dimare (JD): Welcome back to Just Clarity. On this episode, I’m joined by Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Lead Analyst at Digital Clarity Group, and Connie Moore, the head of our Research Department and we’re going… read more >
In this episode of Just Clarity, Digital Clarity Group’s Jill Finger-Gibson and Jake DiMare discuss the Salesforce acquisition of Demandware.
Dell has made a lot of progress raising the cash necessary to acquire storage giant EMC by selling $20B investment grade secured bonds in May, and $3.25B worth of junk bonds earlier this month. This past Monday, the company raised another (estimated) $2.2B more by selling Dell Software to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management. Today… read more >
Earlier this morning, OpenText, the enterprise information management provider based in Ontario, agreed to acquire HP Inc.’s Customer Communications Management software assets for $315 million. This move comes just two months after HP Inc. struck a deal with them to divest its Customer Experience software assets for $170 million. OpenText acquires HP Inc.’s Content Related… read more >
Today Scott Liewehr, co-founder and CEO of Digital Clarity Group, was quoted in a CMS Wire article that shared various theories about Microsoft’s recent, somewhat confusing, $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn. Microsoft: Becoming Service Driven? In a nutshell, perhaps Microsoft wants to take a page from Apple’s playbook and move into services. “Everyone will say… read more >
