Verity broadens its offerings to help businesses organize, manage data Enterprise search software vendor Verity Inc. is acquiring document capture vendor Cardiff Software Inc. in a deal worth about $50 million.In an announcement Tuesday, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Verity said the move will broaden its offerings to help businesses organize and manage their internal information.Vista, Calif.-based Cardiff’s products include a document capture suite called LiquidOffice and an e-forms application, along with workflow-driven business process applications. “With this acquisition, Verity has the opportunity to leverage its leadership in the search, classification and recommendation categories of intellectual capital management and extend it to content capture, e-forms and business process automation,” Anthony J. Bettencourt, Verity’s president and CEO, said in a statement. “The addition of Cardiff’s products, people and partners brings Verity the ability to enable enterprises to optimize their dynamic information assets, capturing the value of interaction between documents and the business processes they represent.”The transaction is expected to close within 30 to 60 days.Cardiff’s customers include the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army, the state of California, Kaiser Permanente, Cardinal Health Inc., Mayo Foundation, American Express Co., HomeBanc Mortgage Corp., Toys R Us Inc., Johnson Controls Inc. and British Petroleum PLC. Software Development