Austin, Texas-based nGenera Corporation has acquired Bellevue, Washington based Talisma Corp for an undisclosed amount.

Talisma, founded in 1999, is the leading Customer Interaction Management software solution provider. Its customers include Aetna, AOL, Canon, Citibank, Comcast, Dell, Ford, University of Notre Dame, Microsoft, Pitney Bowes, Siemens, Sony, and Sprint.

nGenera Corporation is an on-demand platform for business innovation that provides a suite of subscription-based offerings to enable the Next Generation Enterprise.

Last month, nGenera launched its nGen Customer product offering -- a suite of Web 2.0 SaaS applications integrated with advisory programs, executive education and customer-driven research.

Talisma's solutions will be extended with nGenera's Web 2.0 collaboration tools such as blogs, discussion threads, wikis, interest groups, organisational structures such as tag clouds, polling, Web monitoring, and analytics.