Updata Advisors Enterprise Application Software Transactions

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Updata Advisors Enterprise Application Software Mergers & Acquisitions News

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="95%" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><td>IN THIS ISSUE:</td></tr><tr><td><ul><li>Public Equity Performance: Enterprise Application Providers Continue to Outperform Broader Indices The first nine months of 2007 picked up where 2006 left off, delivering strong returns. In the most recent quarter, however, application stocks (and the overall market) have become increasingly volatile amid credit concerns, uncertainty of monetary policy and the possibility of economic contraction… <a href="#story1">read more >></a></li><li>M&A Activity: Voracious Appetite by Large Consolidators Consolidation in the enterprise application sector continues apace as valuations and deal sizes have risen significantly even as the number of deals has fallen slightly due to a scarcity of high quality targets… <a href="#story2">read more >></a></li><li>Featured Sub-Sector: Business Analytics / Business Intelligence Organizations continue to demand applications that mine and process their critical data to yield “dashboards” of meaningful information… <a href="#story3">read more >></a></li><li>Featured Trend: The Importance of Vertical Expertise Of several trends that are occurring right now in enterprise application software, we would like to highlight one: the premium that the market is increasingly placing on vertically focused companies... <a href="#story4">read more >></a></li><li>Enterprise Application Software Public Company Valuations Relevant financial data for publicly traded enterprise application software companies... <a href="#story5">read more >></a></li><li>Enterprise Application Software M&A Transactions YTD 2007 Selected enterprise application software company M&A transactions in the SaaS, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and supply chain management sub-sectors, including deal values and multiples when disclosed... <a href="#story6">read more >></a> </li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table> 9 application/xml false Business Analytics CRM enterprise application software ERP PLM SaaS SCM Updata Advisors Enterprise Application Software Transactions Recent enterprise software mergers and acquisitions deals completed by Updata Advisors http://updataadvisors.com/interior_advisorstransactions.asp?sector=6&sectorname=APPLICATION%20SOFTWARE Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 fbartolomey 208.82.213.22 false true false false true 125367 blog blogsite/UpdataAdvisors/web