| 1995 | June |
Oracle acquires Information Resources Express-software
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| 1996 | October |
Microsoft acquires Panorama OLAP technology, rebranding to Analysis Services
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| November |
Applix acquires TM1 Software (Sinper Corporation)
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| 1998 | May |
Arbor Software (Olap-vendor, Essbase) acquires Hyperion, rebranding of merger to Hyperion
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| December |
SPSS acquires Clementine, datamining technology
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Cognos acquires Relational Matters, ETL Technology which became DecisionStream
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| 1999 | February |
Brio acquires Sqribe, production reporting technology
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| June |
Oracle acquires Darwin, Datamining technology
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| 2000 | February |
Great Plains acquires FRX Software, financial reporting technology
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| March |
Cognos acquires Lex 2000, which became Cognos Finance
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| June |
SAS acquires DataFlux, data quality software
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| August |
Accrue acquires Pilot from Platinum Equity Holdings
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| September |
Gemplus acquires SLP InfoWare, scoring & Analytical CRM technology
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Accrue Software acquires Pilot Software, business intelligence technology
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| December |
SPSS acquires Showcase, an AS/400 Business Intelligence specialist
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| 2001 | January |
NetIQ acquires WebTrends Corporation, website analytics technology
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Informix Business Solutions, an operating company of Informix Corporation, announces it has changed its name to Ascential Software
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| March |
Ascential acquires Vality, data quality technology
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SAS acquires Intrinsic, Operational CRM technology, following the merger of Intrinsic with Marketic not going through
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SAP acquires Toptier, BI & portal technology
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| June |
Microsoft acquires Israelian Maximal Innovative Intelligence and rebrands their OLAP viewer as Data Analyzer
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| October |
SPSS acquires CustomerCentric Solutions (former Netgenesis), web analytics technology
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| November |
Ascential Software acquires Torrent Systems, high end data integration technology
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| 2002 | January |
Open Ratings acquires Gentia Software, business intelligence technology
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Peoplesoft acquires Annuncio, marketing automation solutions
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| February |
SPSS acquires Lexiquest, text mining technology
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| March |
Ascential acquires Vality, data quality technology
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SAS acquires ABC Technologies, activity based costing/management technology
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| April |
Lawson acquires Keyola, event driven Business Intelligence technology
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Ascential Software acquires the rights for MetaRecon, data profiling technology from Metagenix
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| May |
FairIsaac merges with HNC Software, predictive analytics & analytical CRM solutions
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Pilot Software Acquisition Corporation repurchases Pilot Software from Accrue
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| June |
SPSS acquires Netexs, OLAP technology
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| July |
Business Objects acquires Acta Technology, ETL-technology
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| November |
SAS acquires Verbind, Analytical CRM technology
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| 2003 | January |
Cognos acquires Adaytum, planning software
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DataMirror acquires SmartSales, sales force automation solutions
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| March |
Hyperion acquires Alcar, financial modeling expertise
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| April |
Group 1 software acquires Sagent Technology, smaller BI vendor
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| July |
Geac acquires Comshare, Budgeting & Consolidation software
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Business Objects acquires Crystal Decisions, production reporting specialist
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Hyperion acquires Brio Software, business intelligence (query, reporting & analysis) technology
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| August |
Ascential Software acquires Mercator Software, real-time integration technology
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Pervasive acquires Data Junction, data integration technology
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| September |
Informatica acquires Striva, mainframe data integration technology
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| October |
Systems Union Group acquires MIS AG, German BI vendor
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CDC Software acquires Executive Suite from CIP-Global ApS
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| November |
SPSS acquires Data Distilleries, analytical CRM
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| 2004 | February |
Harte-Hanks acquires Avellino Technologies, data profiling technology
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| May |
Microsoft acquires ActiveViews
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| July |
IBM acquires Alphablox
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Hyperion acquires QIQ Solutions, dashboarding software
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| August |
Cognos acquires Frango, European Consolidation specialist
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| September |
Sage acquires IntelligentApps, UK based vendor of MS Analysis Services add-on
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| 2005 | January |
Activant Solutions acquires Speedware (Media)
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| March |
IBM acquires Ascential, leading ETL-vendor
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| June |
Cartesis acquires Inea Corporation, Planning software
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| July |
Business Objects acquires SRC Software, Planning & Budgeting software
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Similarity Systems acquires Evoke Software, data quality software
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Oracle acquires ProfitLogic, Retail Profit Optimisation Software
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Coda acquires Simple Concepts AB, Consolidation & Treasury Software
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| September |
Oracle acquires Siebel (Siebel Analytics)
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| October |
Business Objects acquires Infommersion, data visualisation software (XCelsius)
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| 2006 | January |
Actuate acquires performancesoft (PBViews)
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Business Objects acquires Firstlogic, data quality software
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Informatica acquires Similarity Systems
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| April |
Microsoft acquires ProClarity
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| May |
Hyperion acquires Upstream, financial data quality management
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| June |
Applix acquires Temtec (Executive Viewer)
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| August |
Infor acquires Extensity (Geac) and Systems Union (MIS Decisionware)
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| September |
Business Objects acquires ALG Software (Armstrong Laing Limited), ABC software vendor
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| October |
OpenText acquires Hummingbird for its Enterprise Content Management Solutions
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| November |
Business Objects acquires Nsite Software, a Software-as-a-Service (Saas) provider
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| 2007 | January |
Cognos acquires Celequest, operational dashboarding software
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Hyperion acquires Decisioneering, Crystalball risk analysis software
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| February |
SAP acquires Pilot Software, operational performance management
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| March |
Oracle acquires Hyperion, leading CPM vendor
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| April |
Business Objects acquires Cartesis, leading consolidation vendor
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| May |
SAP AG acquires Outlooksoft, CPM - vendor
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Tibco acquires Spotfire
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RocketSoftware (enterprise infrastructure products) acquires CorVu Corporation
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| July |
IBM acquires DataMirror
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| September |
Cognos acquires Applix (TM1), CPM vendor
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Business Objects acquires Fuzzy Informatik, data quality software
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Exact Software acquires Longview Solutions, CPM vendor
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| October |
SAP AG acquires Business Objects, complete Performance Management suite
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| November |
IBM acquires Cognos, complete Performance Management suite
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| 2008 | March |
SAS Institute acquires Teragram Corporation, natural language processing
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| 2009 | May |
IBM acquires Exeros, data discovery software
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| July |
IBM acquires SPSS, advanced anaytics software
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| September |
Informatica acquires Agent Logic, data-driven event management software
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| 2010 | January |
Oracle acquires Silver Creek Systems, Datalens, product Master Data software
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Informatica acquires Siperian, Master Data Management software
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| June |
SAS acquires Memex, law enforcement and national security software
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IBM acquires Coremetrics, Web analytics software
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| July |
EMC acquires Plumtree, datawarehousing database technology
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| September |
IBM acquires Netezza, Datawarehousing Appliances
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| October |
IBM acquires Clarity Systems, Financial Reporting & Compliance and Planning & Budgeting software
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IBM acquires Open Pages, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions
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| 2011 | February |
HP acquires Vertica, Analytic, high-performance RDBMS systems
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| 2013 | September |
SAP acquires KXEN, predictive analytics technology
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