OpenText plans to acquire Vignette
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Submitted by: Francois Ragnet
May 11, 2009 in: The Future of Documents
More consolidation in the ECM (Entreprise Content Management) space – OpenText announced last week that they would acquire Vignette for 310 M$. OpenText is one of the last remaining proprietary vendors in the CMS space.
Although that deal is interesting financially given Vignette’s current financial troubles, analysts question the strategy behind it. there is not currently a strategy or plan to integrate the two overlapping technologies, and ECM and Web Content Management (WCM) technologies will remain distinct technologies for OpenText. Not to mention the integration nightmares, caused by very heterogeneous technologies.
Less than a year after acquiring Captaris, OpenText seems to not suffer from “acquisition indigestion” apparently. This market, overall, is undergoing significant consolidation, as Autonomy and Interwoven recently showed. Is that the only way to survive?
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Greg Scott on May 12, 2009Open Text continues to strengthen their position in the contracting ECM market. I suspect the Vignette ingestion will be similar to the Hummingbird acquisition of 2006. They will, most likely, eliminate the Vignette sales and marketing functions. Their next step will be to integrate what they can and then take advantage of the maintenance revenue stream for as long as it lasts. Customer satisfaction does not seem to be a high priority of Open Text.
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