Handset maker Samsung is collaborating with Oracle to create cloud services to enterprises, according to sources in Korea.

The Korea Times has reported that Samsung’s mobile chief Shin Jong-Kyun and Oracle co-chief executive Mark Hurd recently met. The purpose of the meeting, say insiders, was to outline a working partnership for jointly offering cloud services to enterprises. No deal has been announced, however, and details of the cloud services in question are unavailable.

Samsung was recently rumoured to be considering a $7.5bn takeover of mobile enterprise pioneer BlackBerry. The logic of the deal, according to analysts, is that it would give the hardware vendor Blackberry’s enterprise knowhow. This would provide the missing part of its enterprise mobility offering – expertise in management software for the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) revolution.

In a partnership with Oracle, Samsung would contribute its mobile expertise, while the software giant would offer its experience in cloud, enterprise software and databases.

Samsung’s ambitions in enterprise mobility management (EMM) market have been demonstrated by its partnerships with security vendor Knox and operators like Telefónica on various EMM-focused initiatives.

Oracle and Samsung (via its IT-focused SDS subsidiary) have previously jointly developed and sold procurement systems. Samsung is already a customer of Oracle’s database technology.

This would be the logical time for such a merger, said Brenon Daly, research director at 451 Research for Mergers & Acquisitions. “2015 appears likely to continue the deal-making momentum we experienced in 2014, which was the highest level of tech merger & acquisition spending since the dot com collapse,” he said. “Tech investment bankers have told us that their pipelines are fuller than they’ve been in years, while corporate development executives indicated they expect to be even busier shopping this year.”

According to 451 Research, more than half of corporate acquirers (58 percent) indicated that they expected their own company to pick up the pace of deal making in 2015. They key areas for convergence - information security, mobility and cloud computing – are exactly the areas on which Korean industry insiders say Oracle and Samsung are collaborating on.