Thoma Bravo wants Imperva for $2.1 billion
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has launched a $2.1 billion bid for cyber security company Imperva. The deal gives Imperva 45 days to shop around and seek a white knight or...
Goldman Sachs invests in Egnyte
Egnyte has announced a $75 million investment round from Goldman Sachs. It has previously raised just over $62 million, the last round led by Polaris Partners and Kleiner Perkins in 2013...
JPMorgan wants its financial analysts to be able to code
JPMorgan Chase has upped the ante when it comes to staff training and requirements. According to the Financial Times (pay wall), the banking giant is putting all its new investment bankers...
Infor changes strategy and announces collaboration
Infor has announced two partnerships that sees the company integrate its software with smaller third party vendors rather than acquire them. In its first announcement it unveiled a partnership with Donnelly...
Workday makes double investment
As the dust settles on its 2018 annual conference Workday Rising in Las Vegas, news of two more investments surfaced. Workday Ventures has invested in data.world and pymetrics. The main news...
New partnerships across ERP
Both Oracle NetSuite and Aptean have announced new partner relationships in the last week. Oracle NetSuite announced that Venture Technologies has joined the NetSuite Solution Provider program. Aptean announced the addition...
Sage announces leadership changes
The interim leadership team at Sage has announced some senior appointments at Sage Group PLC. They are the first since Stephen Kelly left the company in late August. The appointments include...
Saba glows brighter with Lumesse acquisition
Saba Software has announced that it will purchase Lumesse for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition brings together two significant companies in the HRM space. This is the final chapter of Hg...
SAP loses another UK MD
Unit4 has announced the appointment of Mike Slater as Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. He joins after a stint at SAP where he was UK MD. He left SAP in...
LF Networking unites end-to-end Open Network Stack
At the Open Networking Summit Europe in Amsterdam LF Networking (LFN) announced continued ecosystem value chain disruption across its projects. Collectively, LFN projects and communities are seeking to ease deployment of...