Public Company Software

OpenText

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

OpenText is a cloud and AI company providing organizations a suite of Business AI, Business Clouds, and Business Technology through information management—helping capture, govern, secure, and exchange enterprise information across on‑premises and cloud.

Focus Areas
Information management, Enterprise content management, Business AI

Tracked deals

5

5 tracked deals across 2018-2021.

Recent pace

0

0 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Buyout

5 buyout

OpenText Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 4 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 4 years for OpenText. 1 2018 1 2019 1 2020 2 2021

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    OpenText
    Target
    Bricata
    Industry
    Cybersecurity
    Type
    Buyout

    OpenText has acquired Maryland-based network detection and response (NDR) provider Bricata and integrated its technology into the OpenText Security & Protection Cloud. The purchase brings NDR capability and engineering talent to OpenText’s security portfolio; the purchase price and Bricata revenues were not disclosed and described as not material to OpenText’s financials.

  • Buyer
    OpenText
    Target
    Zix Corporation
    Seller
    Certain Zix shareholders (holders of approximately 31% of outstanding shares agreed to tender)
    Industry
    Cybersecurity
    Type
    Buyout

    OpenText completed the acquisition of Zix Corporation, a SaaS-based email encryption, threat protection and compliance cloud provider for SMBs, for $8.50 per share in a transaction valued at approximately $860 million. The deal expands OpenText's SMB cloud portfolio, brings roughly 5,600 managed service partners, deepens its Microsoft relationship, and is expected to be accretive to adjusted EBITDA and ARR.

  • Buyer
    OpenText Corporation
    Target
    XMedius
    Seller
    StoneCalibre
    Industry
    Software
    Location
    Quebec, Canada
    Type
    Buyout

    OpenText Corporation has acquired XMedius, a Montreal-based provider of secure information exchange and unified communications solutions, from StoneCalibre for approximately $75 million in cash. XMedius, which generates roughly $40 million in annual revenue and operates on-premise and cloud communications products (including secure file exchange and digital fax), will be integrated to strengthen OpenText's secure information exchange, unified communications and cloud offerings.

  • Buyer
    OpenText
    Target
    Carbonite, Inc.
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Type
    Buyout

    OpenText completed the acquisition of Carbonite, Inc., a provider of cloud-based data protection, backup, disaster recovery and endpoint security, for approximately $1.45 billion in cash. Carbonite becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of OpenText as part of a strategic move to expand OpenText's cloud and endpoint data protection capabilities and extend EIM to SMBs and prosumers.

  • Buyer
    OpenText
    Target
    Liaison Technologies
    Industry
    Cloud & SaaS
    Type
    Buyout

    OpenText has acquired Liaison Technologies to integrate Liaison's ALLOY cloud-based integration and data management platform into the OpenText Cloud Platform, extending the OpenText Business Network. The deal expands OpenText's application-to-application (A2A) integration and analytics capabilities and strengthens its presence in healthcare, life sciences and automotive verticals.

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