IBM is close to finalising a deal to buy software company Apptio for around $5 billion. If successful, this acquisition would provide the computer giant stronger automation capabilities, according ot reports quoting sources with information on the matter.
Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners' Apptio offers tools to assist businesses in tracking the software and services they utilise and more effectively managing costs. According to the company's website, clients include financial behemoths Allstate and Bank of America.
The parties are engaged in advanced negotiations for a purchase that, if everything goes according to plan, could be completed over the weekend. It's unclear if debt is included in the buying price.
An area that IBM has been looking to expand is the management of businesses' technology spending, where Apptio is a major participant.
The long-standing American technology fixture IBM is undergoing a makeover to become a hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence business focused organisation.
It made its largest acquisition to date in 2019 when it paid $35 billion for software provider Red Hat with the intention of growing its cloud computing business.
Kyndryl Holdings, a significant participant in IT infrastructure and data-center management, was one of the companies that IBM, based in Armonk, New York, spun off or divested in recent years.
The difficulties of using AI in healthcare were highlighted by IBM's 2022 completion of the sale of the healthcare-data and analytics assets that were a part of its IBM Watson Health unit. IBM said that the sale represented a new milestone in its hybrid-cloud and artificial intelligence strategy when it first announced the acquisition.
The Wall Street Journal reported in April that IBM is reportedly considering selling its weather division. People with knowledge of the situation say that firm, which includes The Weather Company's business-to-business, mobile, and cloud-based operations like Weather.com, might fetch more than $1 billion in a sale. It was anticipated to draw investors with private equity.
Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, has narrowed the company's focus to include hybrid clouds, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. When IBM's longtime spokesperson Ginni Rometty retired in 2020, Krishna replaced her.
Krishna has also struggled with a more general decrease in demand for tech goods and services as the Covid-era demand bubble fades. When IBM announced it will eliminate about 3,900 positions in January, it joined other major technology businesses in doing so.
IBM announced first-quarter revenue of $14.3 billion in April, a modest increase from the same period last year. $5.9 billion in software revenue was recorded, up 2.6% from the previous year. Other divisions include consultancy, infrastructure, and financing, which is the division with the lowest revenue.
IBM and Apptio are acquainted. To assist their clients in using data to make better business decisions, they have previously worked together.
In a time when deal making in the US has decreased by about 40% compared to the same period in 2022, the sale of Apptio would be a unique private equity departure. The recession has made it difficult for buyout companies to profit from their investments and pay back their fund investors.
In 2019, Vista, which has its main office in Austin, Texas, agreed to buy Apptio for around $2 billion. Through acquisitions, including the purchase of multi-cloud financial management startup Cloudability, the company has assisted Apptio in growing.
Another software business funded by Vista, Cvent, was sold to private equity behemoth Blackstone earlier this month for $4.6 billion. Vista sold its ownership in Ping Identity late last year for $2.8 billion to Thoma Bravo, a different tech-focused private equity group.
The Apptio transaction would be a bright spot in the deal-making process at a time when Washington regulators have toughened their stance on mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the technology sector, which has already been hampered by rising interest rates and economic unpredictability.
(Source:www.livemint.com)
Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners' Apptio offers tools to assist businesses in tracking the software and services they utilise and more effectively managing costs. According to the company's website, clients include financial behemoths Allstate and Bank of America.
The parties are engaged in advanced negotiations for a purchase that, if everything goes according to plan, could be completed over the weekend. It's unclear if debt is included in the buying price.
An area that IBM has been looking to expand is the management of businesses' technology spending, where Apptio is a major participant.
The long-standing American technology fixture IBM is undergoing a makeover to become a hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence business focused organisation.
It made its largest acquisition to date in 2019 when it paid $35 billion for software provider Red Hat with the intention of growing its cloud computing business.
Kyndryl Holdings, a significant participant in IT infrastructure and data-center management, was one of the companies that IBM, based in Armonk, New York, spun off or divested in recent years.
The difficulties of using AI in healthcare were highlighted by IBM's 2022 completion of the sale of the healthcare-data and analytics assets that were a part of its IBM Watson Health unit. IBM said that the sale represented a new milestone in its hybrid-cloud and artificial intelligence strategy when it first announced the acquisition.
The Wall Street Journal reported in April that IBM is reportedly considering selling its weather division. People with knowledge of the situation say that firm, which includes The Weather Company's business-to-business, mobile, and cloud-based operations like Weather.com, might fetch more than $1 billion in a sale. It was anticipated to draw investors with private equity.
Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, has narrowed the company's focus to include hybrid clouds, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. When IBM's longtime spokesperson Ginni Rometty retired in 2020, Krishna replaced her.
Krishna has also struggled with a more general decrease in demand for tech goods and services as the Covid-era demand bubble fades. When IBM announced it will eliminate about 3,900 positions in January, it joined other major technology businesses in doing so.
IBM announced first-quarter revenue of $14.3 billion in April, a modest increase from the same period last year. $5.9 billion in software revenue was recorded, up 2.6% from the previous year. Other divisions include consultancy, infrastructure, and financing, which is the division with the lowest revenue.
IBM and Apptio are acquainted. To assist their clients in using data to make better business decisions, they have previously worked together.
In a time when deal making in the US has decreased by about 40% compared to the same period in 2022, the sale of Apptio would be a unique private equity departure. The recession has made it difficult for buyout companies to profit from their investments and pay back their fund investors.
In 2019, Vista, which has its main office in Austin, Texas, agreed to buy Apptio for around $2 billion. Through acquisitions, including the purchase of multi-cloud financial management startup Cloudability, the company has assisted Apptio in growing.
Another software business funded by Vista, Cvent, was sold to private equity behemoth Blackstone earlier this month for $4.6 billion. Vista sold its ownership in Ping Identity late last year for $2.8 billion to Thoma Bravo, a different tech-focused private equity group.
The Apptio transaction would be a bright spot in the deal-making process at a time when Washington regulators have toughened their stance on mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the technology sector, which has already been hampered by rising interest rates and economic unpredictability.
(Source:www.livemint.com)