Conversations with customers I’ve recently conducted have garnered some feedback about the vendor market and providers who are simply repackaging existing products to sell or failing to deliver on promised functionality.
With legacy vendors in particular you see this still being a common problem, or with companies that are acquisition happy and simply repackaging a newly [...]

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I recently came across this Forbes article in the June issue by Sramana Mitra detailing some of the expected M&A activity in the SaaS space, including Citrix Systems, SuccessFactors, and NetSuite as possible targets. With many of these venture-funded businesses seeing their funding drying up, I imagine plenty of these companies will get acquired.
On-premise vendors [...]

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Plenty throughout the industry have talked about how cloud computing is blurring the lines between hardware and software. Traditional providers such as Cisco are in a perfect position to begin offering cloud computing services if and when they choose.
But you’re starting to see M&A activity reflect the blurring boundaries between hardware and software as hardware [...]

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One of the first BIG issues I worked on while a journalist with CRM magazine had Tom Siebel as the cover story. This was back in October of 2002. Now, realize, this was NOT Siebel’s heydey – but quite the opposite. Still, it was a great interview in a lot of ways.
The CRM Magazine blog [...]

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Just wanted to comment on the positive numbers my ex-associate at the 451 Group and very brilliant M&A analyst Brenon Daly put together showing the deal trends so far in 2009.
As noted in his recent blog post – April was a banner month for deals, even in this economy. Total deals in the sector were [...]

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