NCR is spinning off its enterprise data warehousing (EDW) product line Teradata. The transition is expected to complete sometime in the next six to 12 months. Teradata revenues totaled nearly $1.5 billion in 2005 with an operating margin of 21% and considered a strong market player in data warehousing and analytic infrastructure for retailers, consumer products manufacturers and financial services firms.
BEZ Systems, a player in the emerging market for Proactive Performance Management (PPM) solutions has raised $7.5 Million in preferred financing from proven and successful software industry investors.
At the core of the PPM platform is a profiling and prediction engine that gathers performance data from the environment and continuously builds and calibrates individual service delivery profiles by user-defined lines-of-business. These comprehensive profiles measure current vs. planned service delivery and can be analyzed in real time to provide near term forward-looking views of possible service breaches that help IT management understand and manage change by anticipating performance problems before they become major performance crises.
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Denodo Technologies is a specialist in real-time information integration based on EII (Enterprise Information Integration) and Web Automation technologies. Its technology stands out because it is the only one that enables integration of data from any source on the Internet: everything from dynamic Web sites to Web services, including RSS feeds, all independent of the data format and structure.
The company offers solutions for Web Automation, Unified Client View, real-time Control Panels, Virtual Data Repositories, Mobile Services or voice portals on real-time data, Comparative Buying or standardization of catalogs and Information Integration Solutions for different vertical industries.
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Embarcadero Technologies, whose software manages data for big corporations, said on Thursday it had agreed to be acquired for about $234 million by a private equity group. The all cash offer from Thoma Cressey Equity Partners represents a 29% premium over Embarcadero closing stock price on Wednesday.
The company will replace Chief Executive Stephen R. Wong with Raj Sabhlok after the deal is complete and will go private. Sabhlok currently serves as senior vice president of operations. The company revenue during the first six months of this year was $29.5 million. Net income was $2.3 million during that time, according to the company financial statements.
Embarcadero key product line includes ER/Studio, DT/Studio, DBArtisan, Rapid SQL and Performance Center.
Gartner positions the NCR Teradata Warehouse Server in the leaders quadrant in its first-ever "Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management System Servers, 2006". This report evaluates database management system servers for data warehousing.
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IBM has been on a buying spree lately. It has just agreed to buy Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISS) for about $1.3 billion. In August alone the computer giant is spending more than $3.6 billion (MRO Software Inc., for $740 million; FileNet Corp., for $1.6 billion; and Webify Solutions, for an undisclosed amount) in an attempt to add new products and provide the much needed boost to its own sagging growth. IBM also is in danger of loosing the No#1 IT giant (by revenue) status to HP this year.
As Business Intelligence has become a top pririoty at most oragnizations and a high growth area in enterprise software (business intelligence software is a $22-billion market), there are rumors that IBM wants to buy a BI vendor like Cognos and perhaps even a "no software" customer relationship management (CRM) vendor like Salesforce.com.