{"id":1715,"date":"2012-05-23T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2282976"},"modified":"2012-05-23T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T04:30:00","slug":"sap-buys-ariba-for-4-3-billion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/sap-buys-ariba-for-4-3-billion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP Buys Ariba for $4.3 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The consolidation fairy has struck again.<\/p>\n<p>SAP said late Tuesday that SAP America will be buying Ariba for about<br \/>\n$4.3 billion, paying $45 a share, a 20% premium, for a company that had<br \/>\nrevenues of $443.9 million last year, up 38.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Ariba also reportedly has $196 million in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>Ariba\u2019s purchase price falls in between two big recent SAP purchases: the<br \/>\n$5.8 billion it paid for the Sybase database in 2010 and the $3.4 billion it<br \/>\npaid for SuccessFactors and its talent management widgetry late last year.<br \/>\nSpending like it was Oracle, SAP paid $6.8 billion for French BI house<br \/>\nBusiness Objects in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2282976\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consolidation fairy has struck again.<\/p>\n<p>SAP said late Tuesday that SAP America will be buying Ariba for about<br \/>\n$4.3 billion, paying $45 a share, a 20% premium, for a company that had<br \/>\nrevenues of $443.9 million last year, up 38.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Ariba also reporte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}