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Insider Interview: Software M&A gets more intelligent

Posted May 24th 2007 2:55PM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Private Equity, Oracle Corp (ORCL)

There's been quite a bit of M&A activity in the business intelligence (BI) software space lately. Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) bought Hyperion; SAP (NYSE: SAP) acquired OutlookSoft; and Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ) snagged Cartesis.

Why all the activity? Well, I had a chance to interview Brian Farrar, who is a managing director at Innovation Advisors in Chicago.

What are some of the key trends in BI? Why the interest in M&A?

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