Top Enterprise Technology M&A deals of the year
The year 2021 has witnessed multiple billion-dollar acquisitions across the industry including hardware, software, and services as well as plenty of smaller, strategic merger activity in areas vital to enterprise IT. Some of the largest merger and acquisition (M&A) deals of the past five years in the technology, media, and telecommunications sector signed in the first half of 2021.
tech M&As can disrupt strategic rollouts, spell a need to pivot to a new solution, mean the potential sunsetting of essential technology, provide new opportunities to leverage newly synergized systems, and be a bellwether of further shifts to come in the IT landscape.
Some of the most significant tech M&As of this year that could impact the IT industry in near future are:
Alteryx and Hyper Anna acquisition
Analytics Automator Alteryx has snapped up a small Australian SaaS company, Hyper Anna. AI-driven visualizations and reporting features to its analytics automation platform have also been added.
Genesys to acquire Pointillist and Exceed.ai
Cloud-based customer contact center specialist Genesys is all set to buy ‘Pointillist’- developer of a customer journey orchestration tool, and ‘Exceed.ai’-conversational AI platform provider.
Dell sells Boomi for $4 billion
Boomi, the enterprise integration platform-as-a-service company, which was acquired by Dell in 2010, is to be sold by the end of this year. It is believed that TPG Capital and Francisco Partners will close the deal, valued at $4 billion.
Dell and VMware to split up
Dell Technologies and VMware will soon be “separated.” Dell on April 14, 2021, announced plans to dispose of its 80.6% stake in the virtualization software company in a process that will net it a special dividend of around $9.5 billion. Read More: Enterprise Technology
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