OpenText signs definitive agreement to acquire Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division, including Documentum for $1.62 billion 

Waterloo, ON - 2016-9-12 – Opentext, a specialist Enterprise Information Management (EIM) organisation, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division (ECD), including Documentum. ECD offers a suite of leading Enterprise Content Management solutions with deep industry focus, including the Documentum ™, InfoArchive™, and LEAP™ product families. Under the terms of the agreement, the software, associated services, and employees of ECD will be integrated into OpenText. The acquisition is expected to deepen OpenText’s EIM offering with a substantial portfolio focused on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Information Life Cycle Management. With strong industry offerings, expertise and footprints in healthcare, life sciences, and public sector, plus additional capacity in financial services, energy, and engineering, OpenText will further strengthen its vertical offerings, customer base, managed services, and geographical coverage. OpenText and Dell EMC also announced today their intention to negotiate and enter into a strategic commercial partnership to expand customer offerings and to better serve customer needs. http://www.opentext.com/who-we-are/press-releases?id=51B5E97A2C384D1DBCD...

SAP SE and NTT extend their partnership

Tokyo and Walldorf - SAP SE and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation have announced a partnership enhancement in co-innovation, global partnership and global reference. SAP and NTT are collaborating to develop a solution combining a connected transportation safety solution from SAP that collects and analyzes vehicle-related data with NTT’s hitoe, a sensing fabric jointly developed with Toray Industries, and the NTT Internet of Things (IoT) analytics platform, which transmits drivers’ biological data including heart rate and mental fatigue estimates. The project aims to provide more accurate and real-time information about vehicles and drivers’ conditions. “We are honored to partner with NTT Group, which runs the world’s biggest data centers,” said Robert Enslin, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE and president of Global Customer Operations, SAP. “This partnership gives SAP a significant ability to broaden customers’ choices for facilitating digital transformation. The integration of NTT’s cutting-edge technologies and SAP’s revolutionary solutions will generate momentum to elevate the overall market to the next level.” http://news.sap.com/sap-and-ntt-enhance-global-partnership/
 

Software AG partners with Detego to offer retailers item-level merchandize location, visibility and analytics in real-time

Darmstadt, Germany, 13/09/2016 - Software AG has announced that the company is partnering with Detego, a provider of business intelligence for the highly-competitive, fashion industry, to provide retailers with the ability to seamlessly incorporate real-time analytics and merchandise visibility at the item-level, enable retailers to interact with their customers and bring them on innovative ‘digital’ journeys, and transform their businesses without the need to replace their existing technology infrastructure. Software AG’s Digital Business Platform provides the “Integration glue’ to easily incorporate the Detego suite with their ERP and CRM systems, as well as their overall IT infrastructure. http://www.softwareag.com/UK/Press/pressreleases/20160913_Detego_partner...

Nuxeo Lands $20M From Goldman Sachs in Latest Funding Round

Open source enterprise content management (ECM) developer Nuxeo, has announced it has closed a $20 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing. This is in addition to the $10 million investment from Kennet Partners announced in June, which brings the total raised this year to $30 million. Since its founding in 2000, New York City-based Nuxeo has raised just under $40 million in six rounds from three named investors. “Today’s enterprises face increasing content and digital asset management challenges, especially when it comes to the increasing complexity, volume and diversity of digital content and its delivery channels,” said CEO Eric Barroca. “With this additional investment from Goldman Sachs we will further accelerate our technical leadership while fortifying our global sales, support and marketing operations to capitalize on this significant market opportunity." Christian Resch at Goldman Sachs Private Capital, will be joining the Nuxeo Board. https://www.nuxeo.com/media-center/

Apigee enters definitive agreement to be acquired by Google for $625 million

San Jose, California - September 8, 2016 -  Apigee®, the API company, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Apigee for $17.40 per share in cash, for a total value of approximately $625 million. The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including Apigee stockholder approval and applicable regulatory approvals. The companies expect the transaction to close by the end of 2016. “We’re excited about adding Apigee to Google,” said Diane Greene, SVP of Google’s cloud businesses. “Companies are moving beyond the traditional ways of communicating like phone calls and visits and instead are communicating programmatically through APIs. APIs allow the company’s backend services to talk to the mobile and web-based apps used by their customers and partners. Instead of the doctor phoning a prescription into the pharmacy, they can use an app that talks to the pharmacy through an API.” http://apigee.com/about/press-release/apigee-enters-definitive-agreement...

Laserfiche announces ECM partnership with Ricoh USA, Inc.

Laserfiche has announced it has entered into a partnership to provide enterprise content management (ECM) solutions to Ricoh USA customers. As a part of the new relationship, Ricoh USA has joined the Laserfiche Value Added Reseller (VAR) Program. “At Ricoh, we are focused on helping organizations capture, transform and manage information from anywhere and at any time,” said Jason Dizzine, Director of Product Marketing for Software and Services,  Ricoh USA, Inc. “Laserfiche’s ECM solution is one of the many best-of-breed tools we use to help our customers address their information mobility challenges.” https://www.laserfiche.com/presscenter/laserfiche-announces-ecm-partners...

Acquisitions boost first-half profits at Restore plc

Restore Plc announced that its acquisitions of both PHS and Wincanton Records Management helped increase half-year revenue, profits and dividends. Revenue increased by 26% to £55.4million and net debt dropped to £29.3mln from £30.4mln a year ago. Chief executive, Charles Skinner, commented, "We continued to make good operational and financial progress in the first half, in particular in integrating the Wincanton Records Management business acquired at the end of 2015 and in delivering an improved performance in document scanning.” He added, “Together, the addition of the Wincanton and PHS businesses have significantly enhanced our platform for growth.” http://www.restoreplc.com/press_releases.aspx

Iron Mountain Incorporated announces Canadian debt offering

September 12, 2016 09:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time – Boston - Iron Mountain Incorporated, the storage and information management company, announced an offering by way of private placement of C$250 million in aggregate principal amount of CAD Senior Notes due 2023 by its wholly owned subsidiary Iron Mountain Canada Operations ULC. The Notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Company and its subsidiaries that guarantee each series of its existing notes. Proceeds from the offering of the Notes are expected to be used to repay outstanding borrowings under the Company’s revolving credit facility. The exact terms and timing of the offering will depend upon market conditions and other factors. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160912005850/en/Iron-Mountain-In...

Software AG and Cumulocity announce strategic IoT partnership

Darmstadt, Germany, 06/09/2016 - Software AG has expanded its Digital Business Platform with a strategic OEM partnership with Cumulocity, an Internet of Things (IoT) application enablement platform vendor, to offer a powerful IoT foundation for easily and securely connecting devices and extracting value across numerous industrial environments to produce operational efficiencies and create new revenue streams. Wolfram Jost, CTO at Software AG, noted: “This strategic OEM partnership combines Software AG’s strength in streaming analytics and integration along with Cumulocity’s device integration. It is now possible to bring together operational technology and integrate it with an enterprise’s IT systems (i.e., CRM, ERP, BI, etc) translating the streaming IoT data into meaningful, actionable information.” http://www.softwareag.com/UK/Press/pressreleases/20160906_SAG_Partners_w...

Capgemini and SAP to address jointly the Digital Transformation needs of discrete manufacturing industries through their partnership

Paris, Walldorf – Capgemini, a consulting, technology and outsourcing services organisation, and SAP SE have announced the broadening of their strategic partnership with the launch of “Fast Digital 4 Discrete Industries by SAP and Capgemini,” a joint initiative to help clients in the discrete manufacturing industries to manage their digital transformation as they seek to maximize the potential of Industry 4.0, the Internet-of-Things and innovative manufacturing techniques. The initiative aims to address these challenges by combining SAP’s market-leading suite of digital solutions with Capgemini’s global expertise in consulting, insights and data, cloud and digital manufacturing. Capgemini will also utilize an agile model for business transformation based on its renowned Digital Transformation Framework specifically tailored for the manufacturing industry and spanning the exploration, design and development of specific solutions to enable new business models and scenarios. https://www.capgemini.com/news/capgemini-and-sap-to-address-jointly-the-...

Virtustream and Iron Mountain join Forces to build cloud platform for Enterprise Data Management

Washington D.C. - August 24, 2016 – Virtustream, the enterprise-class cloud services and software provider and an EMC Federation Company, has announced that Iron Mountain Incorporated, a  storage and information management services, has selected Virtustream® xStream® and Virtustream Viewtrust® software to orchestrate, automate and secure cloud storage services for Iron Mountain’s cloud-based service offerings. “Changes in technology and business processes are challenging the most progressive companies to adopt new strategies to handle the resulting explosion of high value data,” said Eileen Sweeney, senior vice president and general manager for Data Management at Iron Mountain. “To enable our customers to adapt their data management processes to these challenges, we are embracing technology and offering clients a hybrid approach to manage all types of data, through various stages of the data lifecycle. http://www.ironmountain.com/About-Us/Company-News/News-Categories/Press-...

Iron Mountain reaches Agreement in Principle to acquire Information Management operations of Santa Fe Group A/S in ten Regions, expanding European and Asian footprint

Boston - August 2, 2016 - Iron Mountain Incorporated®, a storage and information management services organisation, has announced it has reached an agreement in principle to acquire the information management operations of Santa Fe Group A/S, the global leader in international mobility and relocation, in 10 regions in both Europe and Asia for approximately €27 million (approximately $30.2M). Pursuant to a non-binding memorandum of understanding between the parties, Iron Mountain will acquire Santa Fe’s information management operations in Spain, India, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Taiwan. http://www.ironmountain.com/About-Us/Company-News/News-Categories/Press-...