Acquisitions & Partnerships Viewpoints

IBM and Red Hat, a leading provider of open source cloud software, announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion.

Tata Consultancy Services announced that it is partnering with Intel to integrate Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) technology with the Quartz Blockchain solution, to further enhance the privacy and security of blockchain based ecosystems implemented using Quartz.

Industrial AI and IoT software supplier, Uptake, and fleet telematics provider, Geotab, have joined forces to enable fleets to predict failures before they occur, using AI-Powered Fleet Management.

FogHorn, a developer of edge intelligence software for industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, and Uptake, a provider of AI and IoT for global industrial businesses, announced a partnership to streamline the deployment, and accelerate time-to-value, of industrial IoT applications. 

Tata Consultancy Services and Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on technology research and facilitate inter-personnel exchange. Tata Consultancy Services expands its co-innovation network with this partnership to research leading-edge technologies for real-world applications.

At the Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference in London, Siemens and Bentley Systems made two announcements about their joint digital solutions for industry:

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At the Year in Infrastructure Conference in London, Atos a global leader in digital transformation, and Bentley Systems, the leading global provider of comprehensive software solut

At The Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference in London, Bentley Systems announced the general availability of integration between ProjectWise 365 Services and Microsoft 365.

Bentley Systems announced the acquisition of leading pedestrian simulation software provider LEGION, based in London and supporting more than half of the world’s 40 largest transit agencies.

Offshore drillers Ensco and Rowan have announced an all-stock merger agreement creating an offshore drilling company with 82 offshore rigs in its fleet.