Accruent, real estate and facilities solutions provider, has acquired 360Facility, a facilities management solution company.  360Facility solutions cover the full spectrum of facilities operations, including property management, maintenance and asset management, emergency preparedness, and incident management.  360Facility has customers in the corporate market and commercial property management, which Accruent hopes to break into with this acquisition.

           

Wyse Technology, offering cloud client computing, today announced its acquisition of Trellia, a mobile infrastructure management solution. Trellia will expand Wyse's offerings to include cloud-based mobile security, device, app and expense management software solutions.

The Trellia acquisition adds a specific set of technology IP and expertise to present and future Wyse infrastructure management software solutions aimed at helping organizations speed deployment of cloud client computing. Through the acquisition, Wyse will further simplify and reduce the cost for organizations of all sizes to manage, support and secure the exploding number of consumer smartphones and tablets now accessing physical and virtualized IT resources.

Go-to survey site SurveyMonkey announced Monday that it has acquired Wufoo, an online form builder. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but sources say the purchase price was $35 million in cash and stock.

The whole Wufoo team will be moving from Tampa, Fla. to SurveyMonkey's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.

As a 2006 Y Combinator graduate, Wufoo first raised $118,000 in funding from the venture capital firm and a couple angel investors, including Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail, founder of FriendFeed and partner at YC).

Wufoo’s offering has never been particularly sexy, but it has always been a solid idea. The startup provides an HTML form builder that makes it dead simple to create contact forms, online surveys and invitations for collecting any kind of data. It doesn’t sound like much until you look at Wufoo’s feature page. Customize forms with all the fields you can dream of (file upload, mailing address with map integration, embeddable Google Maps), have entries automatically collect time entered and IP address of entrant, color it up with themes and much more. And all that without writing a single line of code.

The startup provides both free and paid versions of its software.

"Everyone at Wufoo is very excited about joining the SurveyMonkey team, and the expansion opportunities for our business that will result from this combination," said Wufoo co-founder Kevin Hale in a prepared statement. "By leveraging SurveyMonkey’s international resources, knowledge scaling infrastructure and expertise with large data collection systems, we will be able to increase the scope, performance and reliability of Wufoo's services."

Naturally, the acquisition means SurveyMonkey can give clients access to easy form building to supplement the survey creation tools already available.

SurveyMonkey just raised $100 million in debt financing this past November, so we’ll likely see more acquisitions in the coming months to flesh out the business. In January, it acquired a 49.9 percent stake in ClickTools, a survey provider on Salesforce’s App Exchange. Back in June 2010 the company bought Precision Polling, a telephone polling service.

Dell today announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration leader Boomi to help businesses reap the full value of cloud computing. Powered by its revolutionary AtomSphere technology, Boomi offers the industry’s only pure SaaS application integration platform that takes the cost and complexity out of integrating applications by allowing easy transfer of data between cloud-based and on-premise applications with no appliances, no software and no coding required.

Boomi Industry Leadership

Headquartered in Berwyn, Pa., Boomi’s technology solutions are widely used with the world’s leading cloud-based applications, including Salesforce CRM, as well as marketing, financial, human resources, content management and service-desk management.

Dell has just announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service integration company Boomi. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and, as usual, the purchase is subject to customary closing conditions. Dell did not say when it expects to complete the purchase of the startup.

Dell chairman and CEO Michael Dell had yesterday teased the press about an impending acquisition in the cloud computing space (see Reuters).

The comment, made at an event in Hong-Kong, sparked a guessing game among tech reporters, but it turns out Dell is picking up a rather small company – Boomi has raised only $4 million in venture capital according to CrunchBase. Nevertheless, it’s a startup that does offer a compelling SaaS platform for many a company.

There was a time when data was a passive thing; it took time to look through and by the time you had done the analysis, the world had moved on and it was kind of outdated. With advances in computing power, we are now about to enter a new phase in which data, instead of being a component of dusty old reports, is the new gold of business advantage. The faster and more powerful your computer and servers, the faster it can crunch and analyze the data and therefore the quicker you have real information you can act on.
If you take data from multiple sources, look for correlations and key patterns that takes computing power, but if your computers are fast enough, and they are now, you have something.
Here's John Webster on Cnet talking about IBM's recent acquisition of Netezza.

"But, beyond the short-term tactical aspect of the Netezza acquisition is a longer-term positioning of IBM that is far more significant. Traditional data warehousing--as a relatively slow process that depends on reiterative data extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes--is essentially dead. What customers are now looking for is speed to information. These appliances offer the ability to parse large data sets from multiple sources in a nontraditional ETL way and to produce information in real or near real time.

That, in itself, is a big opportunity. But it gets even bigger when one looks at what these systems are doing as compared with the human brain. Our brains take in massive streams of sensory data and makes the necessary correlations that allow us to know where we are, what we're doing, and ultimately what we're thinking--all in real time. That's the same kind of data processing these appliances are after.

It's not often we get to watch a new style of computing emerge and grow. But that's what I think we're now seeing. Or...translating what I've said so far into analyst-speak: these appliances represent the emergence a new computing paradigm that mimics the functioning of the human brain. Driving the race to the business analytics appliance opportunity is a race to real-time, competitive business information."

So we've are close to a stage where real-time business intelligence meets real-time behavioral understanding and the net result is something akin to a force of nature.

This is going to turn the marketing world upside down and make digital much more important than it currently is.