M&A Deal Summary

OpenText Acquires Documentum

On September 12, 2016, OpenText acquired information technology company Documentum from DELL EMC for 1.6B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is OpenText’s 12th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is OpenText’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is OpenText’s 23rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is OpenText’s 6th transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2016-09-12
Target Documentum
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) OpenText
Sellers(s) DELL EMC
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 1.6B USD

Target

Documentum

Pleasanton, California, United States
Documentum, Inc. is an enterprise content management platform, now delivered by EMC Corporation, as well as the name of the software company that originally developed the technology.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

OpenText

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Category Company
Founded 1991
Sector Software
Employees14,300
Revenue 3.5B USD (2022)
DESCRIPTION

OpenText is an independent software provider of enterprise information management (EIM). Open Text was founded in 1991 and is based in Waterloo, Canada.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 33 of 44
Sector (Information Technology) 12 of 15
Type (Divestiture) 7 of 7
State (California) 6 of 8
Country (United States) 23 of 31
Year (2016) 5 of 5
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 27
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-09-12 EMC - Enterprise Content Division

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States

EMC Corp. - Enterprise Content Division offers a suite of enterprise content management solutions with deep industry focus, including the Documentum ™, InfoArchive™, and LEAP™ product families.

Buy $1.6B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-06-05 Covisint

Southfield, Michigan, United States

Covisint Corp. is a provider of a single entry point for business partners, customers and employees to connect with enterprises that ensures trusted information gets to the right people and place at the right time. Covisint's B2B Cloud Platform enables solutions that allow enterprises and industries to solve complex information and user management challenges across Business-to-Partner (B2P), Business-to-Customer (B2C) and Business-to-Enterprise (B2E) relationships.

Buy $103M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

DELL EMC

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States

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Category Company
Founded 1979
Sector Information Technology
Employees63,900
Revenue 24.4B USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION
EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. This provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions. Dell EMC, formerly EMC Corp., was established in 1979 and is based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 9
Sector (Information Technology) 3 of 5
Type (Divestiture) 4 of 8
State (California) 3 of 3
Country (United States) 5 of 9
Year (2016) 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-09-12 EMC - Enterprise Content Division

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States

EMC Corp. - Enterprise Content Division offers a suite of enterprise content management solutions with deep industry focus, including the Documentum ™, InfoArchive™, and LEAP™ product families.

Sell $1.6B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-04-20 Spanning

Miami, Florida, United States

Spanning is a provider of subscription-based backup and recovery for “born in the cloud” applications and data. Spanning solutions prevent business interruption due to data loss in Google Apps and Salesforce.com. The company provides powerful, enterprise-class data protection for G Suite, Salesforce, and Microsoft Office 365. Spanning Backup is the most trusted cloud-to-cloud backup solution for thousands of companies and millions of users around the world. Spanning was founded in 2010 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Sell -