Germany's SAP considering offer for Tibco -report
Monday, 10 August 2009 | 
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FRANKFURT, Aug 8 (Reuters) - German software maker SAP (SAPG.DE) is considering bidding for US software firm Tibco (TIBX.O), German weekly Wirtschaftwoche reported on Saturday, citing a source close to talks between the two companies. SAP declined to comment on the report.
The weekly cited its source as saying SAP and Tibco are in "very advanced talks" but that the outcome was not yet certain.
Tibco specializes in middleware products aimed at integrating programmes from various software providers.
As early as the end of 2008, Tibco had already presented its products to SAP management at its headquarters in Walldorf, the magazine said.
It said that an initial concept of selling Tibco products through SAP marketing channels then later changed to include a possible takeover offer.
Source: Reuters
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The Cherry on the Cake!? Predictive Analytics
SAP buying Tibco would clearly be a deal to complete against IBM in middleware - but the IBM / SPSS deal doesn't drive SAP to this, you don't pay $1.5bn to acquire Tibco in order to acquire S+, which TIBCO paid only $25m for in 2008, when they acquired Insightfull (which was a disastrously low price) TIBCO then integrated it into Spotfire which makes that whole greater than the sum, particularly in regard to visualization. IBM are going to do the same with SPSS as TBCO did with IFUL. Hard to believe this is the rationale for the SAP acqusition - maybe the cherry on the cake though! What TIBCO gives SAP on the SOA front as it were is an in to the financial services industry in a big way, the dealing rooms. But what SAP get as a by product is "proper" predictive analytics, not the rear view mirror of Business Objects no matter how colourful or like a Ferrari dashboard, its Predictive Analytics which matter now, in the Financial sector because of Risk and in the industrial sector becasue of costs.