The register
Data company acquisition: what buyers announced, deal by deal
Updated
Every acquisition here is told in the words of a party to it. Where the release names a price, so does the row; where it does not, the row says so.
Describe the data company Tell us what the company holds and sells, and whether you want to license, sell or close. We reply with the route that fits and what a buyer will ask first.
Who has been buying
Software and cloud platforms make up 10 of the 19 buyers. Salesforce agreed to buy Informatica and bought Own Company, IBM agreed to buy Confluent and DataStax, and Databricks agreed to buy Tabular and Neon.
Data and analytics groups make up 8: S&P Global, Moody's, MSCI, FactSet, TransUnion, Clarivate and Intercontinental Exchange, each buying more data or the means to deliver it.
What the targets held
8 targets sold their own data, among them Dun & Bradstreet's business decisioning data and With Intelligence's private markets data. 5 built data infrastructure and 6 managed or governed other companies' data.
When a price is stated
A party stated the price in 9 of the 19 deals. Clarivate gave $5.3 billion for ProQuest, including repayment of ProQuest debt; FactSet gave approximately $1.925 billion for CUSIP Global Services.
Source: Data company acquisitions