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SFDC Acquisiton Spree?
This just in: Salesforce to raise $500M in debt. It’s about time the SaaS world did some acquiring, and Salesforce.com is the logical playa to start. That $500M may be just to war chest to get...
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Marketing Automation Consolidation?
Many VC’s and other practitioners of the Art of Startup view consolidation as a normal part of the evolution of a market. At first there are lots of companies founded in a space and lots of hype....
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Hewitt into AON: a sad, bad day for HR Outsourcing
Waking up this morning to hear the news of Hewitt’s acquisition by AON signalled a sad, bad day for HR Outsourcing. The HRO industry is now consolidating faster than any of us imagined… forget...
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Gartner buys Burton and the Analyst Consolidation Question
With the news that Gartner is buying The Burton Group today, the topic of IT analyst consolidations is popping up again. While I’ve only been in the analyst world for 4 years now (come Feb 2010),...
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Will SAP be acquired?
Lately, SAP has had management shake-up followed by management shake-up followed by management shake-up. SAP’s challenges have led many to speculate whether SAP can remain independent. In that vein,...
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Consolidation in the Outsourcing and Consulting spaces
Image via Wikipedia Last week, I discussed the Booz & Co./A.T. Kearney merger that didn’t go through and why deals like that are sometimes problematic. This week, we learn that Hewitt is being...
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Social Market Consolidation – It’s Here
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Social Media/Marketing marketspace is starting to consolidate – rapidly. What’s driving this consolidation is M&A activity by the large cap market...
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