M&A Deal Summary

DELL EMC Acquires Documentum

On December 18, 2003, DELL EMC acquired information technology company Documentum from Integral Capital Partners for 1.7B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is DELL EMC’s 2nd transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is DELL EMC’s 4th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is DELL EMC’s 11th transaction in the United States.
  • This is DELL EMC’s 4th transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • Documentum was divested to a consortium of strategic buyers in 2016 for 1.6B USD.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2003-12-18
Target Documentum
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) DELL EMC
Sellers(s) Integral Capital Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 1.7B 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

DELL EMC

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States

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 12 of 68
Sector: Information Technology M&A 2 of 9
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 11 of 67
State: California M&A 4 of 24
Country: United States M&A 11 of 61
Year: 2003 M&A 3 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 4 of 25
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2003-10-21 Legato Systems

Mountain View, California, United States

Legato Systems, Inc., provides services in software solutions and services for information life cycle management.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-01-09 VMware

Palo Alto, California, United States

VMware is a provider of technologies designed to establish secure and reliable IT environments and address a range of complex IT challenges that include cost reduction, operational inefficiencies, access to cloud computing capacity, business continuity and corporate end-user computing device management. VMware's solutions enable organizations to aggregate multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks together into shared pools of capacity that can be allocated dynamically, securely and reliably to applications as needed. These internal computing infrastructures can be dynamically extended by customers to the public cloud environment. VMware was formed in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Buy $625M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Integral Capital Partners

Menlo Park, California, United States

Investor


Category Venture Capital Firm
Founded 1991
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Integral Capital Partners operates as a group of partnerships that invests in expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies in the information and life sciences industries. Within information sciences, Integral focuses on communications-centric computing, real-time computing, and mobility. Within life sciences, Integral targets companies that deal in emerging medical technologies and healthcare information systems. The Firm operates in partnership with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, which incubated the Firm in 1991, as well as private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. Integral Capital Partners is based in Menlo Park, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 24 of 67
Sector: Information Technology M&A 5 of 14
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 17 of 45
State: California M&A 18 of 48
Country: United States M&A 23 of 66
Year: 2003 M&A 3 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 17
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2003-06-19 NuVasive

San Diego, California, United States

NuVasive is a medical device company focused on the design, development, and marketing of products for the surgical treatment of spine disorders. NuVasive was formed in 1997 and is based in San Diego, California.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-03-14 UGS PLM Solutions SL

Dallas, Texas, United States

UGS PLM Solutions, a leader in product data management, collaboration and product design software and services with 42,000 clients and more than 2.8 million seats of technology operating in the market, is the product lifecycle management (PLM) subsidiary of EDS. The company works collaboratively with its clients to create solutions enabling them to transform their process of innovation and thus begin to capture the promise of PLM.

Buy $2.1B