August 30th, 2004
IBM outfoxes competitors with Venetica acquisition
IBM’s announcement to acquire Venetica, a provider of enterprise content integration (ECM) software, is a smart move. Venetica brings a broad set of integration adapters and federation services (including metadata mapping, search, subscription/synchronization, and viewing), and gives IBM a more comprehensive integration product, combining with DB2 Information Integrator for Content and IBM’s DB2 Information Integrator. META Group’s David Yockelson agrees that the move was well-timed: "At an increasing pace through this decade, organizations will seek to bridge the gaps between systems that handle data and content to deliver what users ultimately want–a single contextually relevant view of whatever information they require to complete a task….We believe IBM has made a wise acquisition that will give its competition pause and force additional concentration on bringing these diverse worlds [unstructured information/application-process integration/data integration] together."
