{"id":5132,"date":"2012-02-01T22:02:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2012-02-02T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T13:49:22","slug":"numara-software-sa-awaits-acquisition-clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/5132\/numara-software-sa-awaits-acquisition-clarification\/","title":{"rendered":"Numara Software SA awaits acquisition clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US business service management (BSM) group, <a title=\"BMC Software\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/400991-BMC-Software\">BMC Software<\/a>, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire <a title=\"Numara Software\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/400993-Numara-Software\">Numara Software<\/a>, a provider of integrated IT management solutions for the mid-market.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Numara Software South Africa told BusinessTech that company was awaiting the outcome of meetings taking place at its parent company in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be in a better position to comment once we have feedback from Tampa, Florida,\u201d said <a title=\"Vernon Vlok\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/400995-Vernon-Vlok\">Vernon Vlok<\/a>, business development manager. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to jump the gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vlok pointed out that Onsoft Pty Ltd is the holding company for Numara Software South Africa and the appointed Agent for Africa. &#8220;We are not part of the Numara Software group and trade independently from them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Numara Software provides solutions that address critical IT and support functions, such as customer service desk, IT help desk, asset management, software patch and deployment, and network monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>Numara currently has more than 13,000 customers worldwide for its service and asset management solutions and more than 55,000 customer sites worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>According to BMC, the acquisition would further accelerate the growth of BMC\u2019s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business, as well as giving customers access to IT management capabilities geared to their unique requirements, all from a single industry leader.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition would create a broad portfolio of IT management solutions and services with flexibility and choice for mid-sized organisations that typically have 500 to 5,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>BMC would offer Numara\u2019s widely installed Track-It! help desk and asset management solution for smaller organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction, which is expected to close during BMC\u2019s fiscal fourth quarter, is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US business service management (BSM) group, BMC Software, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Numara Software, a provider of integrated IT management solutions for the mid-market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1223,1225,26,1224],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-bmc-software","tag-business-service-management","tag-headline","tag-numara-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}