M&A Deal Summary

Persistent Systems Acquires Agilent Technologies - Software Business

On May 31, 2011, Persistent Systems acquired software company Agilent Technologies - Software Business from Agilent

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Persistent Systems’ 2nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Persistent Systems’ 1st transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-05-31
Target Agilent Technologies - Software Business
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Persistent Systems
Sellers(s) Agilent
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Agilent Technologies - Software Business

Grenoble, France
Agilent Technologies - Software Business focused on supplying data acquisition and control software for scientific instruments to the life sciences, environmental, energy, applied research and other markets.

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Buyer

Persistent Systems

Pune, India

Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Information Technology
Employees22,205
Revenue 119.4B INR (2025)
DESCRIPTION

Persistent Systems is a global company specializing in software product and technology innovation. It uses product engineering processes to develop solutions for customers in technology, telecommunication, life science, healthcare, banking, and consumer products sectors across North America, Europe, and Asia. Persistent Systems was founded in 1990 and is based in Pune, Maharashtra.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 17
Sector: Software M&A 2 of 6
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 3
Country: France M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2011 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-02-02 Infospectrum India Pvt. & OPD Business

India

Infospectrum India Pvt. Ltd. & OPD Business is a provider of systems integration services to telecom, technology, and the United States aerospace and defense sectors and outsourced product development providing better customer foothold in domains identified by them as their growth areas.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-10-19 Doyenz

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Doyenz, Inc. is a provider of innovative cloud platform that meets the business continuity needs of small and medium-sized businesses.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Agilent

Santa Clara, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1999
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees17,600
Revenue 6.5B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Agilent's headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Entrance to Agilent's headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

Agilent produces instruments, software, services, and consumables solutions for the entire laboratory workflow. The company's life sciences and applied markets business provides application-focused solutions that include instruments and software that enable customers to identify, quantify, and analyze the physical and biological properties of substances and products, as well as enable customers in the clinical and life sciences research areas to interrogate samples at the molecular level. Agilent was founded in 1999 and is based in Santa Clara, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 7
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 6 of 6
Country: France M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2011 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-03-01 BIOCIUS Life Sciences

Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States

BIOCIUS Life Sciences, Inc. is a developer of the RapidFire high-throughput mass spectrometry drug-screening platform for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical markets.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-12-01 Halo Genomics AB

Uppsala, Sweden

Halo Genomics is a provider of technology for the next-generation DNA sequencing market. Halo Genomics' technology addresses sequence-selective sample preparation in next-generation sequencing. The company's HaloPlex technology combines the speed and specificity of polymerase chain reaction-based systems with the scalability and capture-size flexibility of solution-based hybridization formats, thus eliminating the need for library preparation.

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