As HP Inc. continues its strategy of divesting of some assets following the split into two separate entities, OpenText Corp. continues to be the company that acquires some of those assets.
The Waterloo, Ont.-based company announced at the top of the week it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Customer Communications Management (CCM) products of HP Inc., including HP Exstream, HP Output Management, HP TeleForm and HP LiquidOffice for customer communications management, process automation and document delivery solutions.
In a news release, OpenText said it expects this acquisition to complement OpenText StreamServe, OpenText MediaManager, OpenText TeamSite, and OpenText MediaBin, and allow the company to better serve its customers by offering a wider set of CCM capabilities in areas, including authoring, workflow and composition for multichannel document presentment and interactive communications. In addition to the acquisition, the company announced they are exploring opportunities to work together in the future to broaden their software offerings.
The deal is worth approximately US$315 million, OpenText said in a news release, with the assets being acquired expected to generate between US$110 and US$125 million of annualized revenues, be immediately accretive to earnings and on the OpenText operating model by the end of first quarter of fiscal 2017, when the deal is expected to close, subject to the customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions. In an email, an OpenText spokesperson told IT World Canada that it is business as usual, and both companies and their respective business will continue to operate separately.
This isn’t the first time OpenText has snapped up HP assets. In April, it announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire some of its customer experience software and services assets from HP Inc., including HP TeamSite, a modern multi-channel digital experience management platform for web content management, and HP Qfiniti, an intelligent workforce optimization solution designed to improve enterprise contact center management.
Late last year, OpenText debuted the latest version of its product suites its Enterprise World conference in Las Vegas as part of its Blue Carbon product development strategy, which included new versions of its product suites for both on-premises and SaaS users and incorporating new analytics functionality from its purchase of Actuate earlier in 2015.