Microsoft today revealed plans to acquire Rapt, a provider of advertising
yield management technology for digital media publishers.
The Redmond giant said that Rapt’s technology, along with its information
and advisory services offerings, will become components of the Atlas Publisher
Suite, part of Microsoft's Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group.
With the inclusion of Rapt, the Atlas Publisher Suite will be beefed up to
provide integrated asset and inventory management, forecasting, yield and sales
management, and ad delivery and operations.
According to Microsoft, a “key†product that will emerge from the
marriage of Rapt's planning capabilities and Atlas' campaign management
capabilities is an integrated publisher sales workflow offering.
"Online publishers have a complex array of needs, and they require more
attentive and sophisticated partners to help them solve these challenges," said
Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of the Advertiser and Publisher Solutions
Group at Microsoft.
"The opportunity to join forces with Microsoft and to see our technology
flourish inside a much larger platform was too compelling to pass up," added Tom
Chavez, founder, president and CEO of Rapt.
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