ERP is vague. Is Epic doing the procurement and inventory part, the scheduling and timesheets part, the finance part, or…
Dell To Acquire Perot Systems
Dell announced this morning that it will acquire Perot Systems Corporation for $3.9 billion. The all-cash transaction is expected to close in the November to January time frame.
The $30 per share offer for Perot represents a 68% price premium to Friday’s close.
Perot will become a services unit within Dell as it attempts to diversify beyond hardware sales. Perot President and CEO Peter Altabef will say on, Dell says.
I was surprised Perot stood on its own this long considering other moves in the industry (HP/EDS).
In the most recent quarter, healthcare accounted for 48% of Perot’s total revenue. They’re not just diversifying beyond hardware sales, they’re continuing their push into healthcare.
I wonder if there will be any issues reconciling Dell’s recent partnership with eClinicalWorks with Perot’s long-standing relationship with athenahealth?
Strange acquisition. I suspect this will be a step in the road until an offshore company buys Dell.
Ross and Michael chatting about this on SquakBox this morning:
http://www.executiveinterviews.net/players/mini/default.asp?order=U12954
This merger appears to be targeting HP+EDS as well as IBM.
Specifically for Healthcare IT, wondering if now Dell will support other EMR’s besides eClinicalWorks, such as NextGen, MedFlow and AllScripts – in addition to AthenaHealth and their already mentioned relationship to Perot.
I have met Dell’s CTO (who left recently) and feel that they have a decent “cloud” strategy which would synergize well with PerotSystems’ processes for datacenters, resulting in a packaged service for remote storage and access to medical records. This, in turn, positions the new company for tele-medicine, e-prescribing.
Once again, Dell plays follow the leader. HP bought a Plano-based services company, so Mikey did too.
RE impact of Perot’s exisiting partnerships, I wonder how this will play out with Meditech and the Meditech Solutions group?