List of IBM Acquisitions in Information Management Space

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Information Management Space

Alphablox Corp. [July, 2004] Alphablox Corporation was a leading provider of analytics technology for business intelligence solutions. Alphablox would become a key part of IBM’s middleware portfolio of business intelligence solutions such as data warehousing and compliance. It would also be an integral part of IBM’s business performance management efforts.
Ascential Software Corp. [April, 2005] Ascential Software was acquired by IBM because of its standing as a leading player in the data integration market (ETL, data quality and data profiling). Together, IBM and Ascential deliver the industry’s most comprehensive solution to integrate, enrich and deliver information for key business initiatives, such as business intelligence, master data management, risk and compliance, infrastructure rationalization, business transformation, and corporate portals.
Cognos [January, 2008] Cognos, a leading provider of Business Intelligence and performance management technologies, makes software that companies use to help them plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos query and reporting, analytical, scorecarding and dashboarding, and planning, budgeting and forecasting tools enable applications and users to leverage such information and provide business intelligence to gain faster insight and return on investment from this data.
CrossAccess Corp. [October, 2003] CrossAccess was an IBM Partner and provides software that allows businesses to access mainframe information — a growing segment of the information integration market. Its technology was intended to extend the reach of DB2 Information Integrator software to an even broader range of mainframe data sources, including data stored in Computer Associates CA-IDMS, Computer Associates CA-Datacom, and Adabas systems.
DataMirror Corporation [August, 2007] Businesses increasingly need to sense and respond to critical information in real time, to support Dynamic Warehousing and Information On Demand initiatives. The acquisition of DataMirror extends IBM Information Server, allowing customers to better exploit operational data by capturing and delivering real time information. DataMirror’s industry leading technology delivers heterogeneous database breadth, scalability, and performance, providing the enterprise class infrastructure our customers demand. The combination empowers our customers to generate more value from their data by delivering trusted information at the speed of business.
DWL [August, 2005] The acquisition of DWL was another important step in IBM’s overall information strategy. DWL’s technology, along with IBM’s investment in WebSphere Product Center, would establish IBM as the leader in master data management, an important element of IBM’s Information Management software portfolio.
Exeros [May, 2008] Exeros, a leading provider of data discovery software, strengthens IBM’s Information Agenda strategy, which helps companies turn data into a strategic asset. Exeros offers new capabilities for IBM’s recently announced Business Analytics Optimization consulting practice. Its technology automatically uncovers hidden relationships between databases, so clients can make sense of disparate data sources much faster than otherwise possible. This capability, which can dramatically reduce the cost of data-intensive projects like data warehousing and master data management, can help clients generate the new levels of intelligence needed to identify market trends and predict business outcomes with more certainty.
FileNet Corporation [October, 2006] IBM has acquired FileNet Corporation, a key player in the fast growing Enterprise Content Management business. Similar to IBM, FileNet is a leading developer of Content Management software, with strengths in content-centric business process management and a variety of available industry specific solutions.
Green Pasture Software, Inc. [December, 2003] IBM acquired Green Pasture Software, Inc., a leading provider of document management software, in order to deliver the most comprehensive, integrated information management infrastructure in the industry. Green Pasture’s technology could enable an organization to take advantage of real-time, high-performance document management capabilities, allowing users to electronically collaborate, edit and manage multiple documents simultaneously.
Guardium [November, 2009] Guardium is a market leader in real-time enterprise database monitoring and protection. The acquisition of Guardium enables IBM to better meet clients’ growing needs for trusted information and regulatory compliance, with technology that continuously monitors access and activity to protect high-value databases against threats from legitimate users and potential hackers alike. It can also help clients streamline and automate compliance processes for ever-changing industry and government mandates. Designed for cross-platform environments, Guardium’s technology identifies patterns and anomalies in data access and usage, and detects fraud and unauthorized access via enterprise applications such as an organization’s ERP, CRM or Data Warehousing solutions.
Informix Corp. [July, 2001] Informix Software is a leading provider of database management systems for data warehousing, business intelligence and transaction processing. The acquisition strengthened IBM in the fast-growing distributed database business, a key strategic priority for IBM.
iPhrase Systems, Inc. [November, 2005] The acquisition of iPhrase Systems, Inc. will accelerate IBM’s ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time, a key element of achieving Information On Demand. iPhrase provides adaptive information delivery software that allows users to more easily find answers, make purchases, and solve problems without expert assistance. iPhrase software’s capabilities in search and text analysis of enterprise databases, content management systems, file systems, collaboration systems and external Web sites complement IBM’s existing technology for delivering information in context.
Language Analysis Systems [March, 2006] LAS makes technology that solves the complex problem of searching and managing name data in a multi-cultural, error-prone world — helping clients spot fraud and other threats. LAS strengthens our Master Data Management offerings by establishing, up front, who our customers are dealing with — regardless of name spelling, language or cultural differences — so that identity is both accurate and consistent. These solutions provide a new level of accuracy, precision and fidelity to the concept of identity resolution.
Princeton Softech, Inc. [September. 2007] Princeton Softech offers proven archiving capabilities, allowing users to segregate historical from current data and store it securely and cost-effectively. Princeton Softech is one of the few vendors that provide application archival. Comprehensive test data management capabilities will allow for creating realistic, right-sized test databases, protecting data privacy in vulnerable development and testing environments and validating test results. Princeton Softech has 2200 clients in 30 countries, including nearly half of Fortune 500 companies.
Solid Information Technology [January, 2008] Solid Information Technology provides innovative in-memory database management. This real-time, all-the-time information access supports applications that require a small footprint, high throughput and availability to power mission critical high performance applications, telecommunications, and other systems in over 3 million deployments around the world.
SPSS Inc. [October, 2009] SPSS Inc. is a leading global provider of predictive analytics software and solutions. Its software portfolio, which includes data collection, statistics, modeling and deployment, captures people’s attitudes and opinions, predicts outcomes of future customer interactions, and allows clients to act on these insights by embedding analytics into business processes. SPSS solutions address interconnected business objectives across an entire organization by focusing on the convergence of analytics, IT architecture and business process. This acquisition further expands IBM’s Information on Demand (IOD) software portfolio and business analytics capabilities, including the range of offerings available through IBM’s recently-announced Business Analytics Optimization Consulting organization and network of Analytics Solution Centers. SPSS’s predictive analytics capabilities will become an essential component of the smarter business systems that IBM is helping organizations build, as they confront the complex challenges the exponential growth of data presents.
SRD [January, 2005] IBM acquired SRD, a privately-held provider of identity resolution software, to enhance its analytics product family, and supports its commitment to becoming the leading provider of advanced analytics. The software could boost business insight by telling a business who its customers were, and accurately identifying individuals and their relationships to one another in near real-time- associations that previously were almost impossible to discover.
Tarian Software [November, 2002] Tarian Software was a provider of leading-edge technology for electronic records management, a growing legal requirement for regulated industries, such as insurance and finance; and for government agencies. The acquisition advanced IBM’s strategy to offer customers a comprehensive, end-to-end infrastructure to manage growing volumes of digitized business content- increasing IBM’s capability to help companies become “on-demand” businesses.
Trigo Technologies [April, 2004] IBM acquired Trigo Technologies, Inc., a product information management middleware provider, to enhance its industry solutions initiatives, a key strategic priority for the company. Trigo’s technology enabled companies to deliver accurate, highly-detailed product data created by perhaps hundreds of suppliers, entering millions of points of information in a multitude of formats- helping an enterprise to make its global product information more consistent for customers, partners and employees.
Unicorn Solutions, Inc. [May, 2006] Unicorn Solutions develops software for metadata management. Metadata is information that is used to describe the characteristics of data, such as when and by whom it was created, accessed, and modified, as well as how it is formatted. Companies use metadata to gain a better understanding of their corporate information so they can use it effectively in their business processes. Unicorn Solutions technology will be incorporated into products within the IBM software portfolio, accelerating delivery of next-generation metadata capabilities.
Venetica [October, 2004] IBM acquired Venetica, a provider of enterprise integration software, to further enhance its business integration efforts and deliver a comprehensive, open portfolio of offerings. Venetica’s software enabled a business to access and integrate unstructured information such as business documents, images and digital media, making it available in real-time through a single SQL-based query. With Venetica, IBM was able to extend the reach of DB2 Information Integrator to information stored in repositories from EMC/Documentum, FileNet, Stellent, Hummingbird, Interwoven and Open Text.