Omniture Acquires Visual Sciences
Posted in Breaking News | Web Analytics
Written by: Bryan Eisenberg
Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), a leading provider of online business optimization software, announced today a definitive agreement to acquire Visual Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSCN) in a stock and cash transaction valued at approximately $394 million.
This is a great move for the web analytics industries and their customers. Consolidation helps to create standards. My personal congratulations to Jim MacIntyre and all our friends at Visual Sciences, and to Josh James and crew at Omniture. Best of luck to all involved.
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It’s on.”
Does this mean we’ll see an integration of HBX and Site Catalyst into one product? We just purchased an enterprise license for HBX to use on client sites and we looked hard and long at Site Catalyst before doing so. It would be nice to have the best of both.
Josh James in his webinar last week said that they plan to take the best functionality of both HBX and Site Catalyst and create one product. HBX customers will be able to continue using HBX if they choose to do so.
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I just hope that the ‘report builder’ will still be available. any word on the entire transition and what will be included/eliminated??