By Jim Lundy With the announcement today that Oracle is in the process of buying Taleo less than sixty days after SAP announced it was buying SuccessFactors, the race is on to offer the most complete Talent/HCM Suite. This comes on the heels of Kenexa announcing yesterday that it was buying Learning Suite provider Outstart. [...]
Salesforce buys Rypple, Signals Move into HCM
December 21, 2011 By
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Knowledge Issue: How will enterprises acquire and distribute knowledge? Summary: On December 15th, Salesforce announced that it was buying Rypple, a Social Performance Start-up. Terms of the deal were not released. Event: Salesforce announced it was buying Toronto based Rypple and [...]
SAP Goes Cloud: Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
December 21, 2011 By
view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Knowledge Issue: How will enterprises acquire and distribute knowledge? Summary: On December 3rd, SAP announced that it was purchasing SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion in an all cash deal. Event: SAP announced on Saturday, December 3rd, that it intends to purchase Talent Management [...]
Tech Titan SAP buys SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
December 3, 2011 By 4 Comments
Announced on a Saturday, this deal signifies that the Tech Titans may be loosening their purse strings to make acquisitions that help them with long term growth (see a related Aragon Research First Cut on SuccessFactors). For SAP, this signifies that a growth via acquisition strategy may be a long term play for them. Note that for others, [...]
