Amit Chowdhry | November 30, 2011 | 253 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Adobe Systems Inc, Cambrian Ventures, Efficient Frontier, Mitsui Ventures, Omniture Inc., Redpoint Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has acquired digital marketing company Efficient Frontier. The acquisition will help Adobe add multi-channel ad campaign forecasting, execution, and optimization capabilities to their Digital Marketing solutions.

Amit Chowdhry | July 17, 2011 | 392 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Benchmark Capital, Domo, Josh James, Omniture Inc.

Domo is a software-as-a-service company that has raised $33 million in series A funding from Benchmark Capital. The company has raised a total of $43 million. Domo was founded by Josh James, who also founded and served as the CEO of Omniture.
Amit Chowdhry | September 15, 2009 | 668 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Adobe Systems Inc, Omniture Inc.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) announced today that have reached a deal to buy out Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMTR) for $1.8 billion. That is a 45% premium on Omniture’s closing price over the last 30 days. Omniture started in 1996 and has about 1,200 employees. The company made about $300 million in revenue as of December 12.
Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Adobe said that this acquisition will be a “game changer” for the company. The acquisition indicates that Adobe has a major interest in providing analytics services for enterprises. “Adobe customers are looking to us for solutions to deliver engaging experiences and more effectively monetize their content and applications online,” stated Narayen said in a press release.
The deal is expected to close during Adobe’s fourth quarter of their fiscal year. Omniture will become a division of Adobe. Josh James, the current CEO of Omniture will continue to run the company as an Adobe SVP.
Omniture started in 1996 and acquired four companies for over $511 million. These four companies included Mercado ($6.5 million), Offermatica ($65 million), Touch Clarity ($51.5 million), and Visual Sciences (formerly known as WebSideStory-$394 million).
To gather analytics for their clients, Omniture uses cookies to track consumer habits. One of the domains that Omniture uses is 2o7.net. Adobe was one of their clients before the acquisition.