Category Archive: Geographies

May 17

UnboundID Opens UK Office to Expand Into Europe

Matthew Hemming, General Manager, UnboundID

  UnboundID (Austin,  Texas, USA) a leading platform provider for identity services, have announced the opening of its new office in London to facilitate its business development and sales operations throughout the U.K. and Europe. UnboundID recognized and seized the opportunity to expand its growth into EMEA markets in order to increase sales and adoption …

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May 15

Start up Internet Broadcasting Corp. raises capital

Internet protocol television (IPTV) service provider, Internet Broadcasting Corp., (India) has raised $500,000 in Series A equity financing as part of its $2 million offering.

May 14

Battery Venture completes the acquisition of Swedish Jeeves

BV Acquisitions AB announced on 26 March 2012 a recommended cash offer to the shareholders and warrant holders in Jeeves Information Systems AB to acquire all outstanding shares and warrants in Jeeves for 83 SEK in cash per share and 13 SEK in cash per warrant (the “Offer”). During the initial acceptance period the Offer …

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May 10

EFI Moves to Accelerate Growth in Latin America

  Electronics For Imaging, Inc., (Foster City, CA, USA) a world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, has announced it has acquired privately-held Metrics Sistemas de Informacao (“Metrics”). Metrics (São Paulo, Brasil) is a leader in ERP (MIS) systems for the printing and packaging industries in Latin America.While financial terms of the transaction were not …

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May 08

Swedish Formpipe acquires Danish Traen for €34M

The Danish software house Traen now becomes a pure Swedish affair. The parties yesterday announced that a takeover is successfully completed at a price of DKK 252M (€34M). Buyer is the listed Swedish software company FormPipe. Traen develops software for electronic document and records management (ESDH), digital self-service solutions and archiving.

May 07

Global growth through a partner channel in the software industry – Part 6: Partner Value Proposition (Dominance)

In previous posts we discussed the issues related to building and managing a channel of partners in the Bootstrapping and Bridgehead stages of market penetration.  This post discusses the issues and opportunities in the Dominance stage.

May 02

Red Hat and 10gen Create Open Source Platform

10gen, (Palo Alto, CA., USA) sponsor of a leading open source non-relational database MongoDB, and Red Hat (Raleigh, NC. USA), a leading provider of open source solutions, have announced new venues for collaboration.

May 01

Lead Generation Reversed: Software Advice

Software Advice (www.softwareadvice.com), based in Austin, Texas, helps buyers from virtually any industry and company size with the daunting task of finding the right software for their business. Team members from Software Advice regularly publish product profiles, comparisons, best practices guides and other research to their website, and they are also available by phone to …

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Apr 30

The Baan killer from Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincom (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA), a provider of ERP solutions, has accepted the invitation from Microsoft to become the provider of a new suite of Dynamics AX based solutions for the complex order-driven manufacturing industries. For more than 40 years Cincom has been in the business of providing Business Operations Management and ERP solutions for discrete …

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Apr 25

Asia-Pacific SMB software as a service market to reach US$1.5B in 2012

Small and medium businesses (SMBs, companies with less than 1000 employees) in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) will continue to boost their focus on scalable public cloud applications. These SMBs and will invest close to US$1.5 billion in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, according to the latest research conducted by AMI-Partners. Driven by the need to continuously …

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