HCL Technologies to acquire select IBM software products

IBM and HCL Technologies have reached a definitive agreement under which HCL will acquire select IBM software products for $1.8 billion. The transaction is expected to close by mid-2019, subject to completion of applicable regulatory reviews.

  • 5 years ago Posted in
The software products in scope represent a total addressable market of more than $50 billion and include:
  • Appscan for secure application development,
  • BigFix for secure device management,
  • Unica (on-premise) for marketing automation,
  • Commerce (on-premise) for omni-channel eCommerce,
  • Portal (on-premise) for digital experience,
  • Notes & Domino for email and low-code rapid application development, and
  • Connections for workstream collaboration.

 

HCL and IBM have an ongoing IP Partnership for five of these products.

 

“We continue to see great opportunities in the market to enhance our Mode-3 (Products and Platforms) offerings. The products that we are acquiring are in large growing market areas like Security, Marketing and Commerce which are strategic segments for HCL. Many of these products are well regarded by clients and positioned in the top quadrant by industry analysts.” said C Vijayakumar, President & CEO, HCL Technologies.

 

He further added, “The large-scale deployments of these products provide us with a great opportunity to reach and serve thousands of global enterprises across a wide range of industries and markets. I am confident that these products will see good growth trajectory backed by our commitment to invest in product innovation coupled with our strong client focus and agile product development. In addition, we see tremendous potential for creating compelling ‘as-a-service’ offerings by combining these products with our Mode-1 and Mode-2 services”.

 

“Over the last four years, we have been prioritizing our investments to develop integrated capabilities in areas such as AI for business, hybrid cloud, cybersecurity, analytics, supply chain and blockchain as well as industry-specific platforms and solutions including healthcare, industrial IOT, and financial services. These are among the emerging, high-value segments of the IT industry. As a result, IBM is a leader in these segments today,” said John Kelly, IBM senior vice president, Cognitive Solutions and Research. “We believe the time is right to divest these select collaboration, marketing and commerce software assets, which are increasingly delivered as stand-alone products. At the same time, we believe these products are a strong strategic fit for HCL, and that HCL is well positioned to drive innovation and growth for their customers.”

Talent and training partner, mthree, which supports major global tech, banking, and business...
On average, only 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed business outcome targets, according to...
Humans may do a lot less of the testing themselves in the future, but they will still have to peer...
JFrog has released the findings of an IDC survey indicating developers are spending significantly...
New research from Mendix finds that low-code tools are no longer simply a tactical solution for...
Global study of over 1,300 tech professionals uncovers opportunities for enhanced security training...
Global IT Business-to-Business (B2B) revenues, coming from data centers, IT services and devices,...
Confluent adds Table API support for Apache Flink® making it even easier for developers to use...