Dell's acquisitions not yet paying dividends

December 11, 2012

Dell’s effort to move away from PCs into enterprise products has been slow as the company battles a challenging economy and tries to weave together acquisitions in a coherent manner. Dell’s legacy has been entrenched in the PC business, but in recent years it has focused on moving into the fast-growing enterprise segment to improve profits. Dell is pushing hot technologies like cloud and virtualization products to link its mainstay client and server hardware business to newer business areas such as networking, storage, services and increasingly, software. Dell has had a large string of acquisitions in recent years. (Click to enlarge.) Dell’s acquisition spree over the past few years has helped reshape its strategy. Dell spent $4.9 billion on seven companies this year, with a marquee acquisition of Quest Software, which is the “foundational platform” for the company’s evolving software strategy, said Brian Gladden, Dell’s chief financial officer, at the Credit Suisse technology conference last month.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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