Industry Consolidation: Tracking The Tech Shakeout
Sept. 27, 2006
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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