Salesforce takeover of Informatica is on for $8 billion

Salesforce is to buy Informatica, the enterprise data management and analytics biz, for around $8 billion. The CRM giant said today [PDF] it has entered into an agreement to acquire Informatica — founded in 1993 — to boost its portfolio around data management and governance with the aim of "deploying powerful and responsible …

[Steve Foster]

M&A not going well?

"The decision to take on another purchase comes 18 months after activist investor Elliott Management took a multibillion-dollar stake in Salesforce, seemingly disappointed in growth, margins, and a failure to elicit value from a string of expensive mergers."

"However, critics have claimed that the SaaS company has not always made the most of these mergers or created the benefits it promised."

Oh well, 17th time's the charm? (if at first you don't succeed, throw more [of other people's] money at the problem?)

[MyffyW]

Re: M&A not going well?

Does Red Larry still have a stake in SF? If so I'm personally pleased to see his share splaffed on pointless M&A ambitions.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: M&A not going well?

M&A are a welcome (bonus generating) distraction for Ineffective Management and a poor overall Strategy/Roadmap.

Just look at the Meta/Quest/Metaverse shitshow.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: M&A not going well?

Always has been so, is well evidenced and is routinely taught to anybody studying business. But for directors, M&A is a welcome toy which frees them from the boredom and hard work of running a business well, involves lots of junkets to the well paid investment banks and deal advisors. My work in the past was for a UK FTSE100 company that invested around a billion dollars in US acquisitions intended to build a sizeable US presence. Directors loved the excitement of serial deals. When the dust settled they had a business worth less than a quarter of what they'd spent. But that was alright because it was only investors' money, and who cares about them?

[Omnipresent]

Evil has no limits

I have been watching the evil spread. Insidious and emerging from the shadows. Like death specters rising and stealing life by ambush. Turning reality into pixels, and reason into lies.

I have been getting hounded and targeted by all manners of this evil lately. Survival is a matter of fear, and distrust. The world is crumbling around us. Destroyed by monkeys with inherent evil in their hearts and minds, creating a world that in turn eats it's self alive.

Disappearing will happen without choice. Be it forced, or buried, or stolen into the underworld. Only Good can destroy the evil all around us. Our world currently stinks of the foul smell of sulfur.

[MyffyW]

Re: Evil has no limits

@Omnipresent - do you need a hug, dear?

[Omnipresent]

Re: Evil has no limits

You would more than likely drag me into the underworld. Never to be seen again.

[MyffyW]

Re: Evil has no limits

The only "Underworld" I'm familiar with is the fictional knicker factory in Coronation Street.

I'll be honest if my kindly embrace is likely to take you anywhere it would probably be Claire's Accessories for some cheer-up tat.

[Androgynous Cow Herd]

Re: Evil has no limits

"Our world currently stinks of the foul smell of sulfur"

Sorry, that was me. Egg salad for lunch, you know..."

[Like a badger]

Re: Evil has no limits

Shhh, or Ed Milliband will have you force fed Bovaer.