Monitored theme · Market
Strategic Technology M&A
Tracked from June 2016 to August 2019 · 6 temporal technology analyses
TAIME Score over the years
Yearly average of the TAIME Score across published temporal technology analyses. Only years with data for this theme are shown.
Latest TAIME Score
74/100
in the August 2019 analysis
| Year | TAIME Score | Analyses |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 74 | 1 |
| 2018 | 70 | 3 |
| 2019 | 77 | 2 |
From the latest analysis · August 2019
Incumbents Race to Buy Cloud, Data, and Collaboration Capabilities They Cannot Build Fast Enough
The mid-2019 acquisition wave is not opportunistic dealmaking. It is a synchronized admission by incumbents across security, infrastructure, analytics, and collaboration that organic capability building can no longer keep pace with market shifts toward cloud-native data and AI.
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