When IBM decided to become the leader in the way companies manage documents, it approached rival FileNet Corp. in Costa Mesa and offered $1.6 billion. FileNet said yes on Thursday. But not without ...

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and FileNet Corporation (NASDAQ: FILE) has announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire FileNet, a publicly held company based in Costa ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. IBM threw down a challenge to database rival Oracle on Thursday with a $1.6bn acquisition that marks its ...

FileNet specializes in enterprise content management (ECM) and has a particular strength in imaging technology, a field it pioneered two decades ago. IBM said it's buying the company to fill a gap in ...

Making its third software acquisition in a week, IBM said Thursday it would buy enterprise content management provider FileNet for US$1.6 billion in cash. Big Blue said it would use the FileNet ...

IBM snapped up publicly traded software vendor FileNet for $1.6 billion in an all-cash transaction today, as the market for content management products heats up. (See IBM Buys FileNet.) According to ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. IBM has agreed to acquire content-management software maker FileNet for about $1.6 billion in cash, the companies said Thursday. FileNet is ...

In its third largest software acquisition and one that will further bolster its software divsion, IBM said Thursday that it will acquire data and content management software company FileNet for ...

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IBM continued its run of SOA-related acquisitions Thursday, agreeing to buy business process and enterprise content management specialist FileNet for about $1.6 billion in cash. IBM rolls out ...