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• Tibco acquires Information Builders to extend the end-to-end end game

  With 2020 being understandably quiet on the tech corporate acquisitions front, news of Tibco buying Information Builders was arguably unexpected.

• Contact Energy shoots for 100 per cent public cloud in 2019

  Contact Energy is continuing its ambitious shift from a fully hosted ICT environment into public cloud for all business applications.

• Tibco aims for accelerated growth with new A/NZ boss

  Tibco Software has named former Zuora Asia Pacific executive, John Kearney, as its new regional vice president for A/NZ.

• Tibco goes to private equity firm for $US4.3 billion

  Just weeks after Tibco said it was looking at its long-term business options, the business intelligence software and middleware vendor has disclosed that it will be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.

• Tibco going up against Oracle, IBM and Adobe with new customer engagement platform

  Add Tibco to the list of vendors pushing a full stack of so-called "customer engagement" software, which companies use to track and analyze consumer behavior in hopes of building deeper relationships with them and ultimately, selling more products and services.

• Tibco confirms it is exploring 'strategic and financial alternatives'

  Tibco's board of directors has begun a review of "strategic and financial alternatives," which presumably include a sale, the middleware vendor has confirmed following a news report of its plans.

• Bank of America illegally copied US$300 million in software, alleges Tibco lawsuit

  Bank of America illegally copied US$300 million worth of Tibco's enterprise software for use in a massive IT project at its Merrill Lynch subsidiary, Tibco alleges in a lawsuit.

• Cloud management has matured from a scale standpoint: TIBCO

  Private, public, and hybrid Cloud management has matured significantly from what it used to be, according to TIBCO Software.

• Wall Street Beat: Despite Oracle earnings miss, software appears healthy

  An earnings miss by Oracle is usually enough to send tech market forecasters back to their spreadsheets with furrowed brows. But despite the enterprise software giant's weaker-than-expected financials, there was enough good news on the tech sales front this week to keep expectations for IT on the optimistic side.

• Tibco scoops up analytics vendor Jaspersoft for $185 million

  Tibco has acquired Jaspersoft for US$185 million in a deal that will give it a widely used embedded BI (business-intelligence) suite to sell alongside its existing Spotfire analytics product.

• Tibco 6.0 moves outside the data center

  Updating its platform for the hyper-connected cloud era, Tibco has equipped the new version of its flagship application-integration software with the ability to communicate with external applications.

• Wall Street Beat: Economic growth, software news and BlackBerry deal boost tech stocks

  Tech stocks rose this week on the back of solid economic news and some upbeat results from software vendors, including Red Hat and Oracle.

• Data discovery to become main focus of BI vendors, Gartner says

  BI (business intelligence) and analytics will remain a top investment priority for CIOs, but by 2015 BI vendors will make ad-hoc data discovery, rather than report generation, the prime focus of their product development efforts, according to a new Gartner report.

• Tibco beefs up its Tibbr enterprise social networking suite

  Tibco will release several add-ons next month for its Tibbr enterprise social networking (ESN) suite, aimed at boosting its file, task and content creation capabilities.

• Wall Street Beat: Software vendor results offer glimpses of optimism

  Enterprise tech companies including Oracle this week started reporting financial results that cover at least part of the third calendar quarter, and so far, the trends look mildly promising compared to last quarter.