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France-based BI startup BIME Analytics announced recently its acquisition by cloud-based customer service platform vendor Zendesk. Syncsort, meanwhile, announced its own acquisition by Clearlake Capital. A week earlier, IBM declared that it would be acquiring Big Data storage vendor Cleversafe.

These are just three of the broader set of acquisitions that have taken place in the data arena since the beginning of last year.

Apparently, buy vs. build (especially in the cloud wars) is driving some of these deals, as one would expect. But enhancing proprietary platforms, and buttressing technology services offerings is too.

Adding data analytics to platforms originally built for mere data integration is another. And emancipating value through accelerated growth is attracting even private equity firms into the data space.

With so many independent players left, and the variety of motivations for acquisitions so great, the number of potential suitors and deals is far from exhausted.

Hence it’s a good idea to take inventory of these deals and the relative categories or “buckets” they’ve fallen into. It can help forecast what deals may come next but, perhaps more important, it provides a list of likely outcomes for companies that are still independent, which will be useful to those companies’ customers and prospects.

You can read more about this at:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/14-big-data-acquisitions-and-why-they-happened/

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