Oracle acquisitions

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2021: Largest Deal in Oracle History: Cerner Takeover for $28.3 Billion

In December 2021, it was announced that the corporate giant software Oracle agreed on the largest deal in its history: it buys a company Cerner that creates software for medical organizations in a deal at a price of $95 per share, which is approximately $28.3 billion.

The deal, which is expected to close in calendar year 2022, could help Oracle strengthen its health presence by attracting a large amount of medical data to its cloud services.

2019

Buying a Cloud Services Developer CrowdTwist

In early October 2019, Oracle announced the acquisition of CrowdTwist, but did not name the financial terms of the agreement. More details here.

Purchase of Oxygen Systems ERP Systems Integrator

At the end of June 2019, Oracle announced the acquisition of the integrator of its ERP systems Oxygen Systems. More details here.

2018

Purchase of SD-WAN solution developer Talari Networks

In mid-November 2018, Oracle announced the purchase of Talari Networks, but did not name how much the SD-WAN solution developer would pay. It is planned to close the deal before the end of 2018. More details here.

Oracle and SAP have bought $100 billion worth of companies since 2005

In November 2018, it became known about the leadership of Oracle and SAP in terms of absorbing software manufacturers. IT giants spent more than $100 billion on these deals. If we talk about the purchase of American IT-Business by European companies, then here SAP ranks first by a wide margin. More details here.

Purchase of a developer of AI solutions and systems for data management DataFox

On October 22, 2018, Oracle announced the takeover of the developer of AI solutions and systems for managing DataFox data. More details here.

Buying goBalto

The corporation Oracle announced on October 17, 2018, its plans to buy out goBalto Inc., a developer cloudy of a clinical research management platform. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, but it is known that earlier this startup attracted more than $37 million from several investors, including one of the largest manufacturers of semiconductor products. Qualcomm Among his clients, goBalto names, among others, a pharmaceutical giant. Pfizer More. here

Buying DataScience.com

May 16, 2018 Oracle announced the purchase of the platform. machine learning DataScience.com More. here

Purchase Zenedge

In mid-February 2018, the American corporate manufacturer software Oracle announced the purchase of a developer software to prevent a DDoS Zenedge attack. More. here

2017

Purchase Aconex

On December 18, 2017, it became known about the purchase of Aconex project management software developer for 1.56 billion Australian dollars (about $1.2 billion). More details here.

Moat Purchase

On April 18, 2017, Oracle announced the purchase of a technology developer to analyze Moat advertising in order to improve its marketing business. The financial side of the agreement is not disclosed. After closing the deal, Moat will be part of Oracle Data Cloud. More details here.

Buying Apiary

On January 19, 2017, it became known about the agreement between Oracle Corporation and Application Programming Interface (API) to acquire the latter.

Oracle's Integration Cloud API enables companies to secure, use, monetize, and analyze Application Programming Interface (API) interfaces. With the acquisition of Apiary, Oracle will also be able to provide customers with the most advanced development and management capabilities for Application Programming Interface (API) interfaces. Companies can manage the full Application Programming Interface (API) lifecycle and deliver integrated applications.

2016

Buying Dyn

On November 21, 2016, Oracle announced the purchase of Dyn. The deal became known a month after Dyn suffered the largest DDoS attack in history. The cost of acquisition is not disclosed. More details here.

Purchase Palerra

In September 2016, Oracle announced the purchase of Palerra as part of a strategy aimed at supplying customers with comprehensive tools for identifying and protecting cloud services. The value of the transaction is not disclosed. More details here.

Purchase of NetSuite for $9.3 billion

On July 28, 2016, Oracle announced the acquisition of NetSuite for $9.3 billion. Through this transaction, the buyer will be able to strengthen its position in the fast-growing cloud services market.

Under the terms of the agreement, Oracle will pay $109 for each share of the NetSuite, which is 19% more than the value of securities by the close of the exchange on July 27, 2016. The statement on the sale of NetSuite provoked an increase in company quotes by 18.6% during trading before the official opening of the exchange session on July 28. More details here.

Opower Purchase

On May 2, 2016, Oracle announced the purchase of Opower for about $532 million. Shareholders of the absorbed company will receive $10.3 per share, which is almost a third more than the value of Opower securities at the time of the exchange's closure on April 29, 2016. More on this here.

Textura Purchase

On April 28, 2016, Oracle announced the purchase of Textura for $663 million in cash. As part of the transaction, which is planned to be closed before the end of 2016, Textura shareholders will receive $26 per share, which is 30.7% of the value of securities at the time of the closing of the exchange on April 27, 2016. The statement on the sale of Textura provoked an increase in company quotes by 28%. More details [[[Textura|here]].

2015

Buying Maxymiser

On August 20, 2015, Oracle announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Maxymiser.

The corporation believes that the integration of Maxymiser technologies with Oracle Marketing Cloud will strengthen the solution that manages marketing programs across all possible digital channels throughout the life cycle of customer interaction.

"Companies are increasingly looking for innovative methods to strengthen competitiveness that increase ROI and brand loyalty by improving customer service," said Thomas Kurian, Oracle's president of product development. "The Oracle Marketing Cloud platform with Maxymiser technologies will allow enterprises to no longer guess, but immediately provide customers with really what they want, and through any digital channels and on any devices."

The transaction is expected to close during 2015.

Oracle paid about $1.2 billion for Datalogix

On February 4, 2015, the media became aware of the amount that Oracle paid for the purchase of Datalogix Holdings. The companies themselves do not disclose the cost of the transaction.

According to the newspaper, The Wall Street Journal which refers to two people familiar with the situation, the acquisition of Datalogix cost Oracle more than $1.2 billion. This amount is almost 5 times less than the largest purchase in Oracle history: in 2009 American , the manufacturer ON absorbed the developer of servers and workstations for Sun Microsystems $5.7 billion.

2014: Micros Systems Purchase Plan

In June 2014, it became known that Oracle was going to acquire Micros Systems, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing an informed source. According to him, for each Micros share, the corporation will offer $67 or in the amount of $5 billion on June 20, 2014, the value of Micros shares at the time of closing was $65.77. Thus, Oracle will pay slightly more than their market value.

The deal could be the largest for Oracle since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010. This manufacturer of servers and server software cost the corporation $7.4 billion. The official announcement of the transaction is expected on June 23, 2014, in the evening of Moscow time.

Speculation that Oracle intends to buy Micros Systems has previously appeared. The interest of the corporation in this software developer, according to analysts, is due to the desire of the DBMS developer to significantly strengthen its position in the retail and healthcare sectors.

As of June 2014, Oracle has approximately $39 billion in cash and equivalents^[1].

2012

Oracle chapter: I was thinking about buying RIM and launching the direction of smartphones

In April 2012, CEO Donbass Larry Ellison announced that the corporation could buy Palm and manufacturer BlackBerry Research In Motion to market its own line of smartphones.

Ellison made such a high-profile statement in court, where Oracle's lawsuit against Google regarding its claims to be used in the source code of Android development corporation (Java) is currently being heard. This was the answer to one of the questions of the Google lawyer. Ellison continued: "I had the idea that we could enter the smartphone market and compete with the leading players there. Since it arose, I studied this question. We figured out the situation and realized that this idea was bad. "

According to him, when considering the perspective in detail, Oracle considered that the RIM price is too high, and in general the corporation has too little own expertise to engage in the production of mobile devices. Ellison did not explain whether Oracle would consider future development in this market.

Purchase of Talent Management Vendor SelectMinds

On September 17, 2012, Oracle announced an agreement reached to buy SelectMinds, the manufacturer of a talent management system, which will be a logical continuation of the acquisition made by Oracle earlier - the purchase of Taleo for $1.9 billion. The terms of the next transaction, which should be closed before the end of 2012, are not disclosed.

Purchase of Eloqua Cloud Software Provider

On December 20, 2012, Oracle announced the purchase of a cloud software developer in the field of marketing and automation of marketing programs Eloqua for $871 million. The transaction was unanimously approved by Eloqua's board of directors. It is planned that the transaction will be completed in the first half of 2013.

2011: Acquisition of InQuira

On July 28, 2011, the company announced the acquisition of InQuira. The terms of the transaction, which should be completed at the end of 2011, were not disclosed.

2009: Sun Microsystems takeover

On April 20, 2009, the takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle was officially announced.

In September 2009, the European Commission took 4.5 months to investigate the deal between Oracle and Sun. The companies intended to complete the acquisition of the latter before the end of the summer of 2009, but now have to wait until January 2010.

2005: Purchase of Siebel Systems

On September 9, 2005, Ozark Holding Inc., as a division with 100 % participation of Oracle Corporation, was founded in Delaware.

In September 2005, it became known that Oracle bought its competitor Siebel Systems for $5.8 billion. Oracle paid $10.66 per share to Siebel. After the announcement of the purchase, Siebel shares on Nasdaq rose $1.22 to $10.35, and Oracle fell $0.27 to $13.01.

Oracle management hopes that the acquisition will allow the company to receive 4 thousand corporate customers and 3.4 million users of CRM systems. Siebel will be a new major acquisition of Oracle, but at the same time Larry Ellison is not going to stop there.

At the same time, new acquisitions are not easy for Oracle. The corporation has not yet fully streamlined the product lines of PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, the mechanism of interaction with various partners has not been fully established. The protracted process of PeopleSoft acquisition was in the hands of Oracle's competitor, SAP, which thereby increased its market share.

2004: Takeover of PeopleSoft

In 2004, Oracle absorbed PeopleSoft - its competitor in the corporate software market, and literally "beat off" SAP company Retek, a developer of retail solutions.

Then the head of OracleLarri Larry Ellison entered the Siebel Systems company in the list of future acquisitions and the American developer of CRM solutions.

Larry Ellison is a staunch supporter of the idea of ​ ​ consolidating the software market. According to the head of Oracle, the future of the industry is for large players covering the entire range of software solutions. Oracle is purposefully implementing its strategy.

See also

• Oracle Financial Performance

• M&A mergers and acquisitions
• Cisco acquisitions
• Acquisition and sale of Microsoft assets
• SAP acquisitions
• Oracle acquisitions
• Acquisition and sale of Intel assets
• Acquisition and sale of IBM assets

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