Data Point: M&As in Enterprise IT Sector Will Continue
The 451 Group survey says CIOs should expect more consolidation and billion-dollar strategic acquisitions by the big IT vendors.
In addition, four forces will add more fuel to the M&A fire, according to the report: healthy cash-rich balance sheets of acquirers; a plump supply chain of venture-backed companies ready for exit; the need to make up for R&D that has been starved in recent years; and the need for further consolidation. "Although there has been a great deal of consolidation, some sectors such as infrastructure software have a way to go," Miller notes. Indeed, a third of respondents in the survey predicted they would increase their market consolidation activity in the coming year.
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