Intalio, which styles itself “The Enterprise Cloud Company,” has announced the acquisition of CodeGlide, a software company based in Buenos Aires, and ProcessSquare, a software company based in Munich.

 

CodeGlide developed a platform for Customer Relationship Management, including Sales Force Automation, Marketing Automation, Customer Helpdesk, Analytics, Enterprise Mashups, and Office Productivity, while ProcessSquare has a Web-based Business Process Management application used by customers such as ABB, Allianz, and Henkel. Both product lines are integrated within Intalio’s product stack.

Company officials say Intalio’s cloud computing platform, Intalio|Cloud, uses hardware and software to deliver “multi-tenancy, dynamic provisioning, elastic scalability, and deployment both on-demand and on-premise.” Charging that alternative offerings “focus on the infrastructure as a service layer,” Intalio officials say their product “goes all the way up to the application layer.”

Given the plethora of professional sports playoffs on at the moment, it’s perhaps unavoidable that we’d hear the “take it to the next level” meme bandied about in business promotion as well: “These two acquisitions and the massive product development efforts that followed are taking Intalio to a whole new level,” says Ismael Chang Ghalimi, Founder and CEO of Intalio, saying Intalio|CRM is “at feature parity with Salesforce.com (News - Alert), costs 60 percent less, and is available both on-demand and on-premise, while providing a much better user interface, similar to Microsoft Dynamics CRM’s.”

What’s more surprising -- and frankly refreshing -- is hearing business software described in Derridavian, Foucaultian terms: “Post-modern application architecture demands a deconstructed meta-platform, in which cooperation and composition outweigh cohesion,” says Richard Watson, Analyst for Burton Group.

In order to facilitate the deployment of Intalio|Cloud within large organizations, the vendor offers the Intalio|Cloud Appliance, which puts in a single rack all the hardware and software required for the platform. The hardware is made of HP BladeSystem blade servers and enclosures, Solid State Drives for all database storage, and the InfiniBand interconnect technology.

 

A couple years ago, TMCnet reported that Intalio announced the closing of a new round of funding led by Partech International, putting Vincent Worms, co-founder and managing partner at Partech International, on the Intalio Board of Directors.

 

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