IBM announced today that it will buy California-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) vendor FileNet in an all-cash deal valued at $1.6 billion. The is IBM's largest acquisition in about four ...

IBM's announcement of its $1.6 billion bid for FileNet is an indication that a power shift is taking place right now, one analyst said IBM’s bid to buy FileNet on Thursday points to a major shift ...

Being bought by IBM Corp. is “like I inherited a rich uncle,” says Lee Roberts, head of Big Blue’s Costa Mesa software unit. In October, IBM paid $1.5 billion for FileNet Corp., where Roberts was ...

IBM continued its run of SOA-related acquisitions Thursday, agreeing to buy business process and enterprise content management specialist FileNet for about $1.6 billion in cash. FileNet’s technology ...

IBM (news, site) announced fairly significant updates to its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) product families, including Business Process Management (BPM), eDiscovery and Archiving. Apparently ...

FileNet specializes in enterprise content management (ECM) and has a particular strength in imaging technology, a field it pioneered two decades ago. IBM said it's buying the company to fill a gap in ...

In an effort to beef up its presence in enterprise content management, IBM said today that it plans to buy FileNet Corp. for $1.6 billion in cash. According to market research firm IDC, IBM was third ...

Making its third software acquisition in a week, IBM said Thursday it would buy enterprise content management provider FileNet for US$1.6 billion in cash. Big Blue said it would use the FileNet ...

IBM is to acquire FileNet in a move that will radically reshape the enterprise content management (ECM) sector. The $1.6bn will take IBM head to head with EMC and its Documentum subsidiary and may ...

IBM continued its run of SOA-related acquisitions Thursday, agreeing to buy business process and enterprise content management specialist FileNet for about $1.6 billion in cash. IBM rolls out ...

The creation of a stronger marketplace is considered a good outcome when there is industry consolidation. In the enterprise content management (ECM) space, however, acquisitions are slowing down ...