Industry Consolidation: Tracking The Tech Shakeout

Sept. 27, 2006
In recent months, a number of big companies have expanded their portfolios.

The old adage that "you can't tell the players without a scorecard" certainly describes the situation within the supply chain marketplace.

In recent months, a number of big companies -- IBM, HP, Oracle, Infor -- have expanded their portfolios through strategic acquisitions of niche providers, while those same niche providers have gained thousands of potential users and customers virtually overnight. To keep it all straight, though, we've developed the following scorecard, which highlights significant corporate moves in the supply chain technology sector since June 2006. We'll update this scorecard as often as necessary.

Company/Product Parent Company Transaction Type Technology
Applied Logistics Inc. Fluensee name change RFID software
BlueCube Software RedPrairie Corp. acquisition retail optimization
Cerebra Inc. webMethods Inc. acquisition semantic metadata management
Demantra Oracle Corp. td> acquisition supply chain planning
eBridge Solutions Order Logistics Inc. acquisition supply chain collaboration
Extensity Infor acquisition performance management
FileNet Corp. IBM Corp. acquisition content management
Intuitive Manufacturing Systems Made2Manage Systems Inc. acquisition ERP
Mercury Interactive Hewlett-Packard Co. acquisition business technology optimization
Mindflow Technologies Emptoris acquisition supply chain planning
MRO Software Inc. IBM Corp. acquisition asset and service management
Onyx Software Corp. M2M Holdings Inc. merger customer relationship management
Pinnacle Distribution Concepts Inc. HighJump Software acquisition transportation management
Systems Union Group Infor acquisition performance management
TransDecisions Inc. Servigistics acquisition fleet management

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