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IBM OSS Consolidation Continues |
Vallent is a Service Quality Management (SQM) software vendor which was originally 3 separate companies: Metrica (formally owned by ADC), Comnitel, and Watchmark. These three companies brought together the strengths of performance management, reporting, SLA, and wireless performance.
Last week IBM made an announcement that they would be acquiring Vallent. See excerpts from IBM Eye below:
"IBM has continued fleshing out Tivoli with its fat wallet, purchasing Vallent Corporation, a privately held company that makes software allowing Cell Phone providers to granularly monitor its network quality for a purported $200 million. Consolidation has been happening fast in the OSS space and it looks like convergence is playing out such that there will be half a dozen or so major players in a year or two:
Amdocs
HP
IBM
Oracle
Telcordia
Smaller, independent players such as Vallent and Intec ripe for being brought into the fold of a larger company. So far this year, Oracle has bought MetaSolv, Amdocs - Cramer, CA - Wily and Syndesis picked up CoManage. And Telcordia, who I described above as a survivor, is rumored to be for sale and in talks with SAP."(1)
(1) IBM Purchases Vallent Corporation, http://www.ibmeye.com/, Wed November 29th, 2006.
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