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Sycamore Partners’ $10 Billion Prescription For Walgreens
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) announced it will go private in a $10 billion deal with Sycamore Partners. It comes at a crucial time for Walgreens, which faces declining sales, profitability issues, and scrutiny for its role in the opioid crisis. The formation of WBA in 2014 was intended to deliver a wider range of products and services globally and become a leading player in the international healthcare retail industry.
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Tenable To Acquire Vulcan Cyber: More Consolidation In The Vulnerability Management Market
The proactive security market is consolidating further as exposure management vendor Tenable announced its intent to acquire Vulcan Cyber, a unified vulnerability management (UVM) vendor that specializes in third-party vulnerability collection, vulnerability response, and application security posture management. This acquisition demonstrates how vendors are reacting to CISOs’ continued need to unify and consolidate their fragmented […]
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CrowdStrike Acquires SaaS Security Specialist Adaptive Shield
Cybersecurity platform provider CrowdStrike announced plans to acquire Adaptive Shield, a SaaS security posture management (SSPM) vendor. Some sources reported the purchase price to be around $300 million. If that purchase price is accurate, based on Forrester’s estimates of Adaptive Shield’s current revenue, that price represents an approximately 12–15x revenue multiplier and 6 times more […]
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Siemens Continues The Shift From Grease To Code With Acquisition Of Altair Engineering
German industrial conglomerate Siemens is spending $10 billion to acquire Altair Engineering. Read what this means for Forrester’s clients in manufacturing and beyond.
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Visa Risk And Identity Solutions Acquires Fraud Management Vendor Featurespace
Last week, Visa announced the acquisition of Featurespace, a UK-based enterprise fraud management and anti-money-laundering (AML) vendor.
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IBM Surrenders SIEM While PANW Tries To Gain Ground On Tech Titans
Find out what Palo Alto Networks' acquisition of IBM’s QRadar business means for the broader security information and event management SIEM market.
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Opposites Attract: LogRhythm And Exabeam To Merge
LogRhythm and Exabeam announced their intent to merge, representing another big change for the security analytics platform market. Find out what's driving the merger and what the implications could be.
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50/50: Capital One, Discover, And Differentiation In Credit Cards
Welcome back to Forrester’s blog series, 50/50, where we showcase two sides of a B2C marketing issue. This time, we explore how consumers feel about Capital One’s bid to acquire Discover — and how differentiated credit card brands are in the eyes of customers. The main catalyst for this research is Capital One’s announced plan […]
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Large Services Firms: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, But So Is Coming Together
The boundaries of IT service providers are in flux due to a variety of motivations, and too often, customers are left with more questions than answers. Read this blog to get four tips for managing service provider transitions.
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You Got Your Carbon Black In My Symantec! No, You Got Your Symantec In My Carbon Black!
What is Broadcom planning to do with VMware’s Carbon Black unit? Find out in this blog covering the plan to integrate Carbon Black with Broadcom's existing product lineup.
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Splunk Is Good For Cisco, But Cisco Needs To Convince Splunk Customers That Cisco Is Good For Them
Find out what Cisco's $28 billion planned acquisition of Splunk could mean for both observability and security.
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IBM Reups On FinOps With Its Apptio Acquisition
Late Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM is in potential late-stage talks to acquire cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) and IT financial management (ITFM)/technology business management (TBM) company Apptio for roughly $5 billion. If the deal closes, the value would be at more than twice Apptio’s previous purchase price of $1.94 billion […]
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TIER: M&A And CVC Are Shifting The Growth Narrative
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A), plus corporate venture capital (CVC), are shifting toward acquiring tech capabilities that give access to new markets.
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HPE Ramps Up Hybrid Cloud Management With OpsRamp Acquisition
On Monday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its intention to acquire OpsRamp, which offers a multitenant AIOps-powered IT operations management (ITOM) solution for hybrid cloud environments. Its AIOps solution will be integrated into HPE’s GreenLake edge-to-cloud Platform. OpsRamp’s 300 employees will join HPE’s office of the CTO. Terms of the OpsRamp acquisition were not announced, […]
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Amazon Pulls The Plug On Amazon Care, Signaling A New Dawn Of Healthcare Disruption
Amazon is shutting down Amazon care in a strategic decision to make the most meaningful disruption in the healthcare space, here is why.
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Why Automation Vendors Can’t Stop Buying Optimization Vendors And What It Means For The Market And For You
On March 31, Microsoft and Minit announced that the former was acquiring the latter. This is, by Forrester’s count, the eighth time a major automation vendor has purchased a process optimization vendor since 2020. Why are some of the biggest software companies in the world so eager to grab a slice of the relatively small […]
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SailPoint To Be Acquired By Private Equity Firm Thoma Bravo For $6.9 Billion
On Monday, April 11, 2022, identity management and governance (IMG) vendor SailPoint announced that it was being bought by private equity (PE) firm Thoma Bravo for $6.9 billion. This is not the first rodeo for Thoma Bravo with SailPoint; in 2014, the PE firm bought out SailPoint’s original venture capital investors and remained an owner […]
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Continuous Evolution: In Acquiring Linode, Akamai Looks To Transform Again
Akamai’s announcement last month that it had acquired infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Linode addresses a gap in Akamai’s offering and presents an opportunity to disrupt traditional cloud service providers. Akamai’s edge function-as-a-service (FaaS) technology gives companies the ability to manipulate content close to the user with very low latency, but organizations still need to go back […]
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SentinelOne Secures Identity First, Deception Second, In Attivo Acquisition
Endpoint security and extended detection and response (XDR) vendor SentinelOne today announced the acquisition of Attivo Networks for just over $600 million. Attivo was a darling of deception technology, but SentinelOne was really after its Active Directory protection portfolio, including ADAssessor and ADSecure. Enterprise identity plays a critical role in the Zero Trust world mandated […]
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Chronicles Of Mandiant: Google Put A Ring On It
Mandiant trades up from FireEye and finds a home within Google Cloud Platform.
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