Telligent Acquires the Messaging and Collaboration Solution Zimbra

Telligent has acquired Zimbra from VMware. According to the press release, Telligent will be merging with Zimbra and eventually change its name to Zimbra. The latter is expected to benefit from investments from Intel Capital, NXT Capital Venture Finance, BDCA, Hall Financial Group, and VMware. The leadership of the new company will be ensured by an integrated management team with Telligent's CEO Patrick Brandt at the top.

The new combined company envisions itself as providing software solutions to a post-PC market, where individuals' activities would for the most part be unfolding on their mobile devices.

In addition, Telligent's intention is to bring Zimbra’s comprehensive messaging and collaboration solutions and Telligent’s social community, collaboration, and analytics software together, in an effort to provide a better equipped software solution to companies interested in developing a customer experience strategy. Patrick Brandt explains:

Zimbra enables traditional collaboration through features such as email, calendar sharing and address books, while Telligent supports real-time collaboration via chat, social networking, online communities and more. The combination of the two will enable companies to easily share documents and ideas instantly, providing true unified collaboration.

As social business and mobile business are becoming one, Telligent and Zimbra seem to complement each other in creating a comprehensive social-mobile business platform.