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IBM to buy Apptio for $4.6B to help companies optimize IT spend

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billion to help enterprises optimize their IT expenditure, particularly cloud costs, as they try to navigate uncertain macroeconomic conditions. While ApptioOne can be used by enterprises to manage hybrid cloud, Apptio Cloudability can be used to monitor public cloud spending and expenditure optimization.

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Celonis beefs up its Power BI process mining capabilities

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For the past decade, process mining specialist Celonis has been helping enterprises optimize processes around their ERP systems — and more recently has branched out to help them optimize their use of workflow automation platforms, too. Process mining was the sole focus for Celonis for years, initially around SAP systems.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

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trillion in 2020 to $5.16 Process mining giant Celonis has snapped up Process Analytics Factory, a small German company specializing in process optimization on Microsoft’s platforms. It certainly started off that way, with Microsoft agreeing to pay $68.7 billion for Activision Blizzard, dwarfing the $28.3