{"id":3341,"date":"2012-08-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2337515"},"modified":"2012-08-28T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T11:00:00","slug":"ibm-buys-kenexa-in-1-3-billion-me-too-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-buys-kenexa-in-1-3-billion-me-too-move\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Buys Kenexa in $1.3 Billion \u2018Me Too\u2019 Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM is following in the recent footsteps of Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com and buying a cloud-based talent recruiting and management platform.<br \/>\nIts pick is Kenexa which also sells consulting. It\u2019ll pay about $1.3 billion or $46 a share, a 42% premium to Kenexa\u2019s close on Friday so you know the shares shot up to close the divide.<br \/>\nIBM says the acquisition will let organizations act on insights-driven analytics to create a smarter workforce across every line of business. It sees an \u201cenormous opportunity\u201d to apply advanced social business and analytics capabilities to front-line business operations and quotes CEO Ginni Rometty saying \u201corganizations can think of Big Data as the next great natural resource.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2337515\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM is following in the recent footsteps of Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com and buying a cloud-based talent recruiting and management platform.<br \/>\nIts pick is Kenexa which also sells consulting. It\u2019ll pay about $1.3 billion or $46 a share, a 42% premium&#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-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","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=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}