Boss News

PEOPLE

North American Candidates of the Month
Once again, we have some excellent people available across North America to assist your organisation in achieving new heights. Read more »
UK Candidates of the Month
This month we present a number of talented individuals from around the UK. They offer a variety of skill sets and are available to precipitate your company’s progress to the next level. Read more »

Business Leader Interview
John Symon, SVP Asia Pacific, talked to Mike Peplow, President EMEA with BancTec, a global BPO organisation, offering payment, document and content processing, as well as technology-related services. To learn more about BancTec’s success,   Read more ».

PERSPECTIVES

Regional Updates from the Senior Partners

North American Regional Update
This month Paul Carman assesses the many guises of economic recovery becoming apparent in the US and just how far things have improved since the beginning of the recession in December 2007. . Read more »

European Regional Update
‘How to increase your organic growth!’ by Geert Kruiter, SVP Continental Europe Read more »

Asia Pacific Regional Update
‘Positive Outlook for Growth in Asia Pacific in 2010’ by John Symon, SVP Asia Pacific  Read more »

Document Outsource Service Providers – Leveraging Your Equity Value
By Paul Carman, SVP North America and John Symon, SVP Asia Pacific
To learn more about how to achieve the best sale value for your organisation, please read the article and benefit from the combined wisdom of two of our senior partners, who have many years of experience at creating exemplary exit scenarios. Read more »
   
'Six Steps to Position Your Company for Greatness’
Chris Ryan, ECM expert and President of Fusion Marketing Partners, LLC, presents a Blue Paper on the critical subject of branding strategy    Request a copy >>  
        

COMPANIES 

North American M&A Opportunities of the Month
Once again, we have some excellent people available across North America to assist your organisation in achieving new heights.
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NEWS

SDL enters online retail market with acquisition of eCommerce software company Fredhopper
January 2010 - SDL plc, a provider of Global Information Management solutions, has announced the acquisition of Fredhopper, a company which targets and markets software for eCommerce. This acquisition is a further step in SDL’s strategy and commitment to delivering best of breed solutions for enterprises with complex, multi-lingual sales and marketing and customer support requirements. The gross assets being acquired are less than 5% of SDL’s gross assets.  Read more »

Oracle® Buys Silver Creek
Redwood Shores, California – January 2010 - Oracle has acquired Silver Creek Systems, Inc., a provider of product data quality solutions. Silver Creek’s data quality solution is designed to simplify complex product descriptions commonly found in many industries, enabling enterprises to more accurately manage product data. The combination of Silver Creek and Oracle is expected to enhance product data quality across enterprise applications, including Oracle’s Product Information Management Data Hub, Agile Product Lifecycle Management, Supply Chain Management and Enterprise Resource Planning offerings.  Read more »

IBM to Acquire Lombardi
Armonk, New York - December 16, 2009 - IBM has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi, a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms were not disclosed.  Lombardi, a provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software and services, helps organizations automate and integrate business processes to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. "Any discussion on business improvement inevitably leads to improving the processes that are at the heart of every company," said Craig Hayman, General Manager, IBM Application and Integration Middleware. "Recognizing this, IBM has strengthened its presence and investments in business process and integration software to meet these growing client demands. Lombardi fills out our company's portfolio in this key area”  Read more »

Progress Software Corporation to acquire Savvion Inc.
Orlando, Florida - January 2010 – Progress Software Corporation, a software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive has announced the acquisition of Savvion Inc., a privately held business enterprise software company based in Santa Clara, California, for approximately $49 million, net of cash acquired. Savvion is a provider of Business Process Management (BPM) technology with 15 years of market experience.  The company offers a comprehensive, standards-based BPM suite that helps more than 300 of the world’s top-performing companies – including 24 of the ‘Fortune 100’ – automate and continuously improve critical business processes.   Read more »

TIBCO Software Acquires Foresight Corporation
Palo Alto, California - January 2010 - TIBCO Software Inc. has announced that it has acquired privately-held Foresight Corporation, a provider of transaction automation solutions and EDI productivity tools. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Foresight has over 400 customers, including healthcare payers representing 60 million lives and BlueCross BlueShield organizations in 31 states. Foresight’s products benefit customers by connecting partners and validating transactions, reducing administrative inefficiencies and addressing mandates such as HIPAA 5010.   Read more »

Aia Software announces it has doubled UK revenues
London – January 2010 - Aia Software, an author and developer of intelligent document composition software has announced that it has doubled its UK revenues, following an extremely successful year for the company in 2009.  Aia also grew its client base by 26% and further developed its presence in key sectors such as the London Insurance Market. Read more »

Crawford Technologies announces seventh consecutive year of growth
Toronto Ontario – January 2010 - Crawford Technologies Inc., a provider of transactional customer communication document solutions for high-volume operations, has announced its fiscal 2009 year end financial results. Once again, the company performed strongly, with overall annual revenues growing by 25% over the previous year-end results. “2009 was CrawfordTech’s seventh year of continuous growth in revenue and profits,” said Ernie Crawford, President, Crawford Technologies Inc., “We exceeded our expectations in a challenging market during 2009.  Read more »

Mimecast secures £13 million in Series B funding from leading investors
London, UK - January 2010 - Mimecast®, a holistic email management company offering SaaS-based email archiving, continuity, security and policy control, has announced that  it has received £13 million (USD $21 million) in Series B financing from venture capital firms Index Ventures and Dawn Capital.  Mimecast plans to use the funding to increase research and development initiatives and continue to build its market presence. Read more »

Microsoft partners with arvato to deliver global business process outsourcing efficiencies
Guetersloh - January 2010 – Microsoft has signed a global business process outsourcing partnership with arvato AG, an internationally networked media and communication services provider. The five-year agreement - which sees Microsoft consolidating operational activities for several key business lines previously handled by multiple suppliers, with one vendor - commences in January 201. Arvato will support this business globally from their operations based in Dublin, Singapore, Reno (Nevada) Fargo (North Dakota), Manila and Buenos Aires. In its new role as a key global business process outsourcing partner, arvato will manage services for Microsoft Dynamics (formerly known as Microsoft Business Solutions), Commercial Operations, Services and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) divisions.   Read more »

HP and Microsoft simplify technology environments with solutions built on new infrastructure-to-application model
Paulo Alto, California - January 2010 - HP and Microsoft Corp. have announced a three-year agreement to invest $250 million to significantly simplify technology environments for businesses of all sizes. With this strategic partnership, HP and Microsoft will collaborate on an engineering roadmap for data management machines, converged, pre-packaged application solutions, comprehensive virtualization offerings and integrated management tools.  Read more »

ZyLAB receives highest rating in research firm’s e-discovery software product vendors, 2009 MarketScope
McLean, Vancouver - January 2010 - ZyLAB, a provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, has announced that the company has received a “Strong Positive” rating in Gartner’s “MarketScope for E-Discovery Software Product Vendors, 2009” report (Debra Logan, John Bace, and Whit Andrews, December 21, 2009). ZyLAB also received the “Strong Positive” rating in the 2008 reports Read more »

Infosys BPO positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Magic Quadrant for Comprehensive Finance and Accounting BPO
Bangalore, India - January 2010 - Infosys BPO Ltd. has announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the 'Leaders Quadrant' in the 2009 Magic Quadrant for Comprehensive Finance and Accounting (F&A) BPO report1. According to the research firm's report, "Leaders are performing well today, both with a clear vision of market direction and by actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. They generally share superior market understanding, have a global client base, an extensive network of well-distributed and highly populated global delivery centers, catering for multiple languages, a good balance of transactional and high-end F&A delivery and innovative sales offerings."   Read more »

VITOVA signs a term sheet with CDC Software, advancing global sales of home-grown DMS
Hong Kong - December 2009 - VITOVA Group has announced that it has entered a term sheet for a strategic investment by CDC Software to its subsidiary in Hong Kong, VITOVA Ltd. The deal is subject to some customary closing conditions, including the execution of definitive documentation and the satisfactory completion of due diligence by CDC Software. As a strategic investor, CDC Software contributes more than financial investment to VITOVA Ltd. CDC Software plans to resell the home-grown DMS solutions under the brand CDC DMS to its global customers outside Greater China region. There will be huge cross selling opportunities to its existing 6,000 worldwide customer base.
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