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M&A Deal Summary

IBM Acquires Ascential Software

On May 2, 2005, IBM acquired software company Ascential Software for 1.1B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is IBM’s 21st transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is IBM’s 16th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is IBM’s 26th transaction in the United States.
  • This is IBM’s 3rd transaction in Massachusetts.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2005-05-02
Target Ascential Software
Sector Software
Buyer(s) IBM
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 1.1B USD

Target

Ascential Software

Westborough, Massachusetts, United States
Ascential Software Corp. is a provider of extraction, transformation, and loading software for building data warehouses and transferring information between disparate data sources.

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Buyer

IBM

Armonk, New York, United States
Category Company
Founded 1911
Sector Information Technology
Employees270,300
Revenue 62.8B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to IBM's corporate headquarters in Armonk, New York.
Entrance to IBM's corporate headquarters in Armonk, New York.

IBM is a global provider of information technology products and services. IBM's products and services include IT infrastructure and business process services, cloud computing, business analytics, and enterprise software. IBM was formed in 1911 and is based in Armonk, New York.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 34 of 203
Sector: Software M&A 21 of 111
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 26 of 180
State: Massachusetts M&A 3 of 26
Country: United States M&A 26 of 146
Year: 2005 M&A 5 of 15
Size (of disclosed) 16 of 33
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-05-01 IBM - Personal Computing Division

Armonk, New York, United States

IBM's Personal Computing division consists of the ThinkPad line of portable computers as well as IBM's traditional line of desktop PCs.

Sell $1.8B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-05-10 Gluecode Software

El Segundo, California, United States

Gluecode Software, Inc. is a provider of software support services for open source application infrastructure software.

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