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Looking for Acquisition Targets

Monday, January 19th 2009 | Ismael Ghalimi

Toward the end of last year, Intalio’s Board of Directors agreed to pursue an aggressive M&A strategy whereby Intalio would buy 8 to 10 Open Source companies over the next 18 to 24 months. We’ve started to share our strategy with some potential partners, and we’ve been asked to describe the kind of companies we’re looking for. Here is a preliminary set of criteria (highly subject to change).

We are looking for companies that have the following characteristics:

  • Small (25 employees is a maximum, less than 10 is preferred, mainly engineers)
  • Open Source or ready to go the COSMO way
  • Exceptional technology that took many person-years to develop
  • Architecture compatible with the one built for Intalio|BPP
  • Support for industry standards (J2EE, WS-*, etc.)
  • Active user base (the larger, the better)
  • Committed customer base (the larger, the better, but small is OK too)
  • Committed employee base (location irrelevant, we’re in 13 locations already)
  • Profitable or break-even
  • Little or no debt

And we are interested by the following areas:

  • BPM as a Service
  • Business Performance Management
  • Business Rules Management
  • Calendaring
  • Complex Event Processing
  • Connectors
  • Configuration Management Database
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Document Management
  • Enterprise Information Integration
  • Governance, Risk Management, Compliance
  • Grid Computing
  • Master Data Management
  • Model Driven Architecture
  • Process Analysis
  • Process Discovery
  • Process Model Import
  • Process Modeling
  • Process Optimization
  • Process Simulation
  • Process Templates
  • Project Management
  • Reporting
  • Security
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • SharePoint Integration
  • Social Computing
  • Visualization

If you can think of a good match, drop me a line!

Entry filed under: BPM 2.0

4 Comments - Add a comment

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