M&A Deal Summary

OpenText Acquires eMotion

On July 10, 2008, OpenText acquired software company eMotion from Corbis for 5M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is OpenText’s 12th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is OpenText’s 26th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is OpenText’s 8th transaction in the United States.
  • This is OpenText’s 1st transaction in Washington.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2008-07-10
Target eMotion
Sector Software
Buyer(s) OpenText
Sellers(s) Corbis
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 5M USD

Target

eMotion

Seattle, Washington, United States
eMotion LLC is a provider of softwae solutions and company serves more than 70 marketing-department customers, including some of the largest Fortune 500 companies.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

OpenText

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

website

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 16 of 44
Sector (Software) 12 of 21
Type (Divestiture) 4 of 7
State (Washington) 1 of 2
Country (United States) 8 of 31
Year (2008) 2 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 26 of 27
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-07-03 Spicer

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Spicer Corporation is a worldwide supplier of scalable, universal view-markup and collaboration software solutions that improves document productivity and the return on investment for organizations with ECM, CM, PDM, PLM, ERP, and other corporate information systems. Spicer's visualization, collaboration, redaction, and scanning products are used globally in Manufacturing, Government, Utilities, Insurance and Financial Services, and Reprographics markets.

Buy $12M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-09-04 Captaris

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Captaris, Inc. provides computer software products that automate document-centric business processes.

Buy $131M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Corbis

Seattle, Washington, United States

website

Category Company
Founded 1989
Sector Media
DESCRIPTION

Corbis Corp. is a digital content and worldwide entertainment rights company.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector (Software) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 1
State (Washington) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 1
Year (2008) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1999-06-01 Sygma S.A.

United States

Sygma S.A. is a photo press agency with an archive of over 30 million photographs and relationships with approximately 6,000 photographers, provided celebrity and news-related photo stories to magazines and other media organizations.

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