M&A Deal Summary

OpenText Acquires Captaris

On September 4, 2008, OpenText acquired software company Captaris for 131M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is OpenText’s 13th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is OpenText’s 16th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is OpenText’s 9th transaction in the United States.
  • This is OpenText’s 2nd transaction in Washington.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2008-09-04
Target Captaris
Sector Software
Buyer(s) OpenText
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 131M USD

Target

Captaris

Bellevue, Washington, United States
Captaris, Inc. provides computer software products that automate document-centric business processes.

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Buyer

OpenText

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Category Company
Founded 1991
Sector Software
Employees23,700
Revenue 4.5B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

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

DEAL STATS #
Overall 17 of 45
Sector (Software) 13 of 21
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 12 of 36
State (Washington) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 9 of 32
Year (2008) 3 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 16 of 27
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-07-10 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.

Buy $5M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-05-06 Vignette

Austin, Texas, United States

Vignette is proud to be a part of Open Text, a global leader in Enterprise Content Management. Together, our Web content management, portal and collaboration solutions provide the backbone for dynamic Web experiences. The world’s leading organizations rely on Vignette to power their business-critical Web and e-business solutions and to deliver benefits such as increased customer loyalty, revenue generation, productivity and costs savings.

Buy $310M
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