Consultant

Acxiom Corporation enters into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Silver Lake, an investment firm focused on large-scale investments in technology-driven growth industries, and ValueAct Capital, one of the largest investment firms that makes strategic block and control investments in public and private companies.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu announces a collaborative global initiative among Deloitte member firms and SAP AG to develop and deliver enterprise solutions to better serve clients in their efforts to enable efficient, effective and sustainable governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management processes.

Caribou Coffee taps Tom Zosel Associates (TZA) to analyze its existing supply chain network and identify the most efficient distribution network that will optimize the relationship of service levels and cost to support each of its business channels.

Vision Chain Inc. announces Uli Werner, former SAP executive, as the newest member on its Advisory Board.

Clemson University's Department of Graphic Communications announces a joint venture with ImageHaus LLC, a color management consultancy, to market and implement a Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) tool to maintain package color fidelity for all consumer products.

IDS Scheer, the provider of solutions for business process excellence, announces new global, subject-based consulting solutions based on the company's ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) approach.

IDS Scheer announces bundled solutions comprised of ARIS products and services designed to ensure efficient implementations of service-oriented architectures; implement governance, risk management, compliance; and develop IT architectures through enterprise architecture management.

Linx/AS LLC, a product lifecycle management (PLM) consulting firm and partner in the SAP industry value network (IVN), announced the formal kick-off of its vertical influence partner (VIP) program for Intellectual Property Manager (IPM) version 1.0.