Citrix Systems Inc

In a remote era, work management tech makes sense. The $2.25 billion Citrix Wrike acquisition confirms this. What can investors expect from the acquisition?

VMware (VMW) parted with $1.3 billion three years ago to acquire Nicira, a software-defined networking company. Now, VMware is beginning to show that it made the right decision.

IBM’s 2Q15 results marked 13 straight quarters of falling revenue. This trend continued in fiscal 3Q15 when IBM failed to report any revenue growth.

Box has built-in functionality across programs such as Microsoft (or MS) Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Google Spreadsheets, and Google Docs.

Revenues from BlackBerry’s (BB) Enterprise Software and Services business fell from $91.0 million in fiscal Q2 2018 to $88.0 million in fiscal Q2 2019.

VMware (VMW) considers it extremely important to upgrade its product portfolio by investing in R&D (research and development) on a regular basis.

On September 5, VMware (VMW) was trading at a forward price-to-free-cash-flow multiple of ~16.5x.

As part of VMware’s (VMW) share repurchase program, the company has bought back ~$5.4 billion in shares in the last five years.

On May 22, VMware’s (VMW) market capitalization stood at $55.4 billion.

In order to enhance shareholder wealth, Autodesk (ADSK) continues to buy back shares on a regular basis.

VMware’s hybrid cloud and software-as-a-service offerings on the back of AirWatch SaaS and vCloud Air Network rose in the double digits year-over-year.

Amazon (AMZN) recently threw its hat into the workplace collaboration services ring with the launch of Chime, the company’s version of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Skype for Business.

The sectoral breakdown of SHRAX is unlike any other mutual fund in this review, with healthcare as its biggest holding, commanding 35% of the portfolio.

SaaS and Salesforce are synonymous terms, but in 2Q16, Microsoft overtook Salesforce’s lead in SaaS.

The ClearBridge Aggressive Growth Fund’s assets were invested across 78 holdings as of June 2016, when it was managing assets worth $11.4 billion.

Though it failed to report revenue growth, IBM’s revenue and EPS of $22.1 billion and $4.84 beat analysts’ expectations by $20 million and $0.03 per share.

On January 19, 2016, IBM will release its fiscal 4Q15 results. In the last 14 consecutive quarters, IBM has not reported any revenue growth. IBM beat Thomson Reuters’s consensus EPS estimate of $3.30 in fiscal 3Q15.

ServiceNow announced its 3Q15 results on October 21 and posted revenues and non-GAAP earnings per share of $261.2 million and $0.15 per share, respectively.

Microsoft Corporation and VMware recently announced their partnership in called venture called Project A2, which aims to speed up the Windows 10 adoption.

In 4Q15, Autodesk’s subscription business grew 17% to $300 million, beating analysts’ estimates. ADSK’s cloud-based products, Fusion 360 and PLM 360, increased its customer base.

In July, 2014 EMC announced the VMAX3 TM family. VMAX3 transforms VMAX from an enterprise storage to an open enterprise data service platform. It allows organizations to swiftly shift from on premise infrastructure to an agile data center infrastructure.

VMware leads virtualization infrastructure solutions with around a 60% share of the server virtualization market—the company recently posted 2Q14 results above street estimates with revenue up 17% to $1.46 billion from $1.24 billion in the same quarter last year.

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