In , Emptoris acquired the labor services and contract management of Click Commerce which has since been rebranded as Emptoris Services Procurement. The acquisition of Rivermine adds telecommunications spend analysis and capabilities to the services procurement support area. Industry vertical penetration also appears to be complimentary with both companies targeting similar industry verticals.
Emptoris management indicated an existing customer overlap of between customers, which provides lots of opportunity for upselling. Major system integration partnerships are also similar, featuring both IBM and Accenture, which provide certain telecom business process outsourcing and control services.
In our acquisition briefing, I was informed by Emptoris management that initially Rivermine will remain independent as a wholly-owned subsidiary, and will retain its existent management team. This is a smart move on the part of Emptoris management, since telecom expense management brings specific expertise, and as previously noted, may involve target audiences beyond procurement. From a technical capability perspective, the acquisition will bring added or enhanced capabilities to Tangoe including string mobility management, a mobile storefront for mobile asset acquisition, monthly user airtime rate optimization saving assessments and total telecom wire line, network equipment, mobile asset management.
On the flip side, Tangoe is now becoming even more of an INFOR type organization with a large treasure chest of platforms that are only loosely coupled, if at all. IBM on the other hand, needs to do something to get its stock price back on the growth path; the past 12 quarters have been on a disappointing downward trend. From our vantage point, it would be great to see procurement and sourcing including the Emptoris line move the needle for IBM.
In regards to Tangoe, the combination, based on our back-of-the-napkin analysis, creates the largest TEM provider a near complete list of providers, some of which provide specialized capabilities, can be found here. Smaller providers that are likely to benefit from this consolidation include Avotus , which offers deep telecom and IT spend analytics services and category-specific sourcing technology. Specialized providers in related areas including facilities, legal, IT vendor management, energy and other complex services are likely to further come together and consolidation in certain markets like energy has been going on for years.
However, this rather financially-oriented view denies the product richness of what Rivermine was originally able to create albeit whose innovation slowed somewhat within IBM. For the sake of procurement organizations who need better approaches to manage the lifecycle of complex categories, the Spend Matters team hopes that the combination will result in a new round of TEM innovation — rather than simply moving the EBITDA needle a bit over the longer haul for Tangoe.
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