IBM - Mergers and acquisitions

Dialexa's leading digital product engineering consulting services will enhance IBM's hybrid cloud and AI capabilities, accelerate growth for clients ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced plans to acquire Dialexa, a leading U.S. digital product engineering services firm, to help companies drive innovation and achieve their digital growth agendas. The acquisition is expected to deepen IBM's product engineering expertise and provide end-to-end digital transformation services for clients. Dialexa will be the sixth acquisition IBM has made in 2

Merative will deliver industry-leading data and technology across the healthcare value chain Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of healthcare data and analytics assets that were part of IBM's (NYSE:IBM) Watson Health business, previously announced in January. Under the ownership of Francisco Partners, the new standalone company will be called Merative and will be headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Merative brings together market-leading offerings that deliver value across the global healthcare ecosystem, serving clients in life sciences, provider, imaging,

ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired Neudesic, a leading U.S. cloud services consultancy specializing primarily in the Microsoft Azure platform, along with bringing skills in multicloud. This acquisition will significantly expand IBM's portfolio of hybrid multicloud services and further advance the company's hybrid cloud and AI strategy. IBM continues to invest in its hybrid cloud and AI strategy, expanding its cloud services technology, skills and capabilities to meet the growing demand of clients' hybrid cloud needs. Inc

Upon close, acquisition to position new standalone company for next phase of growth IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, today announced that the companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Francisco Partners will acquire healthcare data and analytics assets from IBM that are currently part of the Watson Health business. The assets acquired by Francisco Partners include extensive and diverse data sets and products, including Health Insights, MarketScan, Clinical Development, Social Program Management, Micromedex, and imaging software offerings. The transaction is expected to close in

ARMONK, N.Y., Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired Envizi, a leading data and analytics software provider for environmental performance management. This acquisition builds on IBM's growing investments in AI-powered software, including IBM Maximo asset management solutions, IBM Sterling supply chain solutions and IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite, to help organizations create more resilient and sustainable operations and supply chains. This acquisition closed on January 11, 2022. Financial details were not disclosed. IBM is already us

SXiQ's skilled delivery professionals bring deep experience on multicloud platforms ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the acquisition of SXiQ, an Australian digital transformation services company specializing in cloud applications, cloud platforms and cloud cybersecurity. Today's news further advances IBM's hybrid cloud and AI strategy by helping enterprises modernize and transform complex mission-critical applications on multiple clouds and platforms. "Companies are very clearly deploying hybrid cloud strategies as interoperabili

ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced plans to acquire the Adobe Workfront consulting unit and assets from Rego Consulting Corporation to further its hybrid cloud and AI strategy.  Building on IBM's strategic partnership with Adobe, the consultancy specializes in work management software consulting for enterprise clients. IBM has been investing aggressively to bolster its hybrid cloud and AI strategy and capabilities, including a heavy focus on acquiring high-value consultative services like the Adobe Workfront business of Rego. The acquisi

ARMONK, N.Y., May 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced plans to acquire Waeg, a leading Salesforce Consulting Partner in Europe, to extend IBM's portfolio of Salesforce services and advance IBM's hybrid cloud and AI strategy. The acquisition builds on IBM's continued investment in Salesforce consulting services to meet the rising client demand for experience-led business transformation and new customer engagement strategies backed by data, AI and machine learning.  "Salesforce continues to play a critical role in companies' digital transformations as they ad

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In today’s environment, many organizations have a “Cloud First” strategy for deploying business applications. Since most of the important business applications reside on mainframes, moving these applications and databases to any Cloud platform requires expert skills and technology. The combination of Astadia’s Replatforming solutions, plus the Anubex Refactoring capabilities, offers a complete mainframe migration RoadMap. Astadia now offers all solution sets required to migrate from any IBM Z Series, or Unisys ClearPath platform, to the Cloud platform of their choosing. “This is an exciting time to be in the Mainframe Migration business. The rapidly shrink

ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Instacart, the leading online grocery platform in North America, announced today that Instacart has acquired over 250 patents from IBM. In addition, IBM and Instacart entered into a mutual patent cross license. The agreement allows Instacart to continue to strengthen its own patent portfolio, and the license gives Instacart freedom of action to use IBM patents in the future growth of its business. Financial terms were not disclosed. "IBM has had a long standing commitment to innovation and the sharing of our patented inventions within the industry, especially high-growth technology companies like Instacart th

ARMONK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 earnings results. “We made progress in 2020 growing our hybrid cloud platform as the foundation for our clients’ digital transformations while dealing with the broader uncertainty of the macro environment," said Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman and chief executive officer. "The actions we are taking to focus on hybrid cloud and AI will take hold, giving us confidence we can achieve revenue growth in 2021.” Highlights Fourth Quarter: GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $1.41; Operating (non-GAAP) EPS of $2.07 -- EPS includes the impact of a pre-tax charge of more than $2.0 billi

ARMONK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced fourth-quarter and full-year 2020 earnings results. “We made progress in 2020 growing our hybrid cloud platform as the foundation for our clients’ digital transformations while dealing with the broader uncertainty of the macro environment," said Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman and chief executive officer. "The actions we are taking to focus on hybrid cloud and AI will take hold, giving us confidence we can achieve revenue growth in 2021.” Highlights Fourth Quarter: GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $1.41; Operating (non-GAAP) EPS of $2.07 -- EPS includes the impact of a pre-tax charge of more than $2.0 billion

ARMONK, N.Y., Jan. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired 7Summits, a leading Salesforce consultancy with more than a decade of delivering transformative digital experiences across industries. The acquisition extends IBM's portfolio of Salesforce services and experience design capabilities and further advances IBM's hybrid cloud and AI strategy. Financial details were not disclosed. "7Summits is part of a broader IBM investment strategy in services and ecosystem partnerships to enable our clients' digital transformations through hybrid cloud and AI," said Mark Foster, Senior Vice President, IBM Services. "Salesforce plays a critical role in transforming c