Contact: Brenon Daly
Once pretty much a company that only offered call recording, Verint has expanded its business over the past two decades through a series of acquisitions. Most recently, it reached for Vovici, adding the startup’s online surveys offering to its voice-of-the-customer portfolio. Vovici will be slotted into Verint’s Workforce Optimization (WFO) unit, which accounts for more than half of the company’s overall revenue.
However, we don’t expect that Vovici will substantially boost the top line at the WFO division. That business runs at about a rate of $100m per quarter, while we understand that the Herndon, Virginia-based startup was generating somewhere less than $15m in revenue. Verint is paying $57m in cash, with a possible earnout of up to $20m if certain undisclosed milestones are hit. That makes it Verint’s largest acquisition since the $1.1bn purchase of Witness Systems in early 2007.