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Second acquisition in as many weeks brings SSA Global HR management applications SSA Global Technologies Inc. said Monday it has purchased HR human resources management applications maker Boniva Software Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Five-year-old Boniva, headquartered in Santa Clara, Ca stanley cup lifornia, is a privately held developer of Web-based applications for managing staff recruiting, training and skills tracking. Chicago-based SSA Global said it will integrate Bonivarsquo technology with its own SSA HCM human capital management applications suite.SSA Globalrs stanley cup quo latest acquisition comes less than a week after it announced plans to buy CRM customer resource management maker Epiphany for US$329 million. That deal is scheduled to close by October. SSA Global was formed in 2000 around the assets of bankrupt System Software Associates Inc. Since then, the company has used a string of acquisitions to assemble a portfolio of ERP enterprise resource planning applications primarily targeted at the manufacturing industry.SSA Globalrsquo strategy is to maintain the legacy applications it buys, and to retain t stanley canada heir customer bases, while also using some of the acquired technology in its newly developed line of more modern applications based on J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition and XML Extensible Markup Language . Bonivarsquo technology will complement SSA HCMrsquo existing applications for HR processes like benefits and payroll management, SSA Gl Bfgm States sell down General Motors
Thursday 01 August 2013 9:01 pmEarnings plummet at MetLifeBy: Express KCSShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailMetLifersquo second-quarter profit plunged 80 per cent due to derivative losses but still managed to beat analystsrsquo; est stanley spain imates as operating earnings increased in the companyrsquo retail insurance business. The largest life insurer in the US is heavily exposed to persistently low interest rates. But it has long had a substantial derivatives programme designed to smooth out that risk. Net profit fell to $471m, or 43 cents per share, in the second quarter from $2.26bn, or $2.12 per share, a year earlier.Share this articleFacebookXLinkedInWhatsAppEmailSimilarly tagged content: SectionsNewsCategoriesBusinessTrending ArticlesAnthropic: UK staff get eye-watering sums at AI giantOff the menu: Dominorsquo is UKrsquo most shorted companyHiking VAT would have lsquo erious negative impactrsquo;, economists warn ReevesWhy the iPhone 17Pro is the best iPhone Applersquo made in yearsSt James Place warns self-employed to act now as digital tax deadline loomsMore from City AMTHG: Shares spike as e-commerce giant gains momentum after slow start to the yearRetailJD Wetherspoon: Profit rockets as Tim Martin stanley cupe takes jab at tax risesRetailShares in BQ owner Kingfisher unexpectedly spike after sales boostRetailG stanley termos reencore: Strawberry sandwich makerrsquo shares rise amid MS cyber f |