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Oracle buys IP assets of firm linked to SAP
Conformia received a minority investment from SAP two years ago and has now agreed to sell its intellectual property assets to Oracle
Conformia has agreed to sell its intellectual property assets to Oracle.
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Oracle has acquired the intellectual property assets of Conformia, a provider of pharmaceutical management software.
Conformia has ties to Oracle’s main-competitor, SAP. The German-based software company provided financial backing for Conformia in 2007 through its NetWeaver Fund, which operates a $125 million investment portfolio.
As part of the deal with Oracle, Conformia’s existing software will be incorporated into the Californian-based company’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution.
"The addition of Conformia software technology underscores Oracle’s commitment to provide customers with a differentiated, out-of-box industry-based solution," said Hardeep Gulati , vice president of PLM strategy at Oracle. "Oracle’s PLM offering will give our Life Sciences industry customers a complete solution to manage drug design, development to commercialisation."
The agreement continues on from Oracle’s much larger acquisition of Sun Microsystems for
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