FatWire

FatWire Software

Company type	Private
Industry	Software & Web Content Management & Web 2.0 Collaboration
Founded	New York City, USA (1996)
Founders	Mark Fasciano, Ari Kahn
Successor	Oracle Corporation (acquired FatWire 2011)
Headquarters	Mineola, New York
Key people	Yogesh Gupta, CEO
Products	FatWire Content Server FatWire TeamUp FatWire Analytics FatWire Engage FatWire Community Server FatWire Gadget Server FatWire Mobility Server FatWire Content Integration Platform
Number of employees	200 (2008)
Website	Oracle and FatWire

FatWire Software was a privately held company selling web content management system (CMS) software. It was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2011, and its products rolled up into Oracle's WebCenter product lines. ^[1]

History

• 1996: Established by Mark Fasciano, Ari Kahn and John Murcott,
• 2003: Acquired Open Market's Enterprise web content management assets including Content Server from divine, founded as FutureTense. ^{[2] [3]}
• 2004: Launched Content Server 6.0 WCM software
• 2007: Yogesh Gupta was named president and CEO in August, acquired Infostoria in October, launched their strategy for Web Experience Management in November. ^[4]
• 2010: FatWire and EMC Corporation announced a partnership in which EMC will resell FatWire's products as their strategic Web Experience Management solution. In return FatWire acquired the rights to resell EMC's digital asset management software ^{[5] [6] [7]}
• 2011: On June 21, 2011, Oracle announced it was acquiring FatWire Software. ^[8] In July 2011, Oracle purchased Fatwire for $163 million with the assistance of Bingham McCutchen ^[9]
• 2012: In February 2012 Oracle releases Oracle WebCenter 11gR1 (11.1.1.6.0) incorporating WebCenter Sites – the new name for Fatwire Content Server. ^[10]

Market

FatWire's revenue for 2009 has been estimated to be around $40M by Real Story Group. ^[11]

Further reading

• Barb Mosher (Feb. 16, 2010) EMC Replaces their WCM with FatWire's Web Experience Management
• Sharon Fisher (Jan. 13, 2010) FatWire introduces WEM framework Archived 2010-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
• Richard V. Dragan (July 1, 2001) Elegant Content Management, PC Magazine (UpdateEngine5 review)
• Mark Gibbs (January 5, 2004) FatWire serves content big time Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine Network World (covers their product line as of 2004)

References

1. Oracle FatWire Acquisition
2. FatWire acquires divine's content management line. (BI News Review)
3. FatWire Software: Content Management Takes a divine Turn (page 2) Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
4. "FatWire Software Acquires Infostoria to Utilize Web 2.0 Technologies". java.sys-con.com. Archived from the original on 2008-09-13.
5. "FatWire: EMC and FatWire jointly deliver marketing solutions for web experience and brand management". fatwire.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-19. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
6. "EMC Replaces their WCM with FatWire's Web Experience Management".
7. Bettering brand management, KMWorld, Feb 17, 2010
8. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/fatwire/index.html ^{[ bare URL ]}
9. "Bingham Closes FatWire Acquisition for Oracle". Archived from the original on 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
10. Best Fatwire and WebCenter Sites Resources
11. Would EMC really buy FatWire? Archived 2010-02-21 at the Wayback Machine , Real Story Group

External links

• Official FatWire website