Among many areas, we represent companies focused on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing solutions that serve the infrastructure, business, consumer, and niche vertical markets. Technology enabled services, which use and implement the software for the client, have also become more prominent.

MPS acquires AJE to scale AI capabilities and enter B2C market

February 29, 2024
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MPS North America LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of MPS Limited, announced the successful completion of the acquisition of AJE LLC, including its subsidiary American Journal Online (Beijing) Information Consulting Limited. AJE is a leading scientific language editing service provider and trusted partner to academic and author communities.
Seller: AJE LLC
American Journal Experts (AJE), an author services company, was established in 2004 in Durham, North Carolina, USA. AJE is a leading scientific language editing service provider and trusted partner to academic and author communities, with over one million manuscripts edited.
MPS provides platform, learning, and content solutions and is a global partner to the world’s leading enterprises, publishers, learning companies, and content aggregators. MPS was established as a subsidiary of Macmillan Limited in 1970 to change the way the world learns.

Springer Nature Acquires protocols.io

July 26, 2023
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Springer Nature, the world’s leading publisher of protocols, has acquired protocols.io - a secure platform for developing and sharing reproducible methods. With protocols.io joining Springer Nature’s leading protocol offering, researchers will now have the option to make their protocols openly available on the protocols.io platform.
protocols.io was conceived in 2012 by geneticist Lenny Teytelman, and computer scientists Alexei Stoliartchouk and Irinia Makkaveeva to facilitate science communication. The protocols.io platform enables academic and industry researchers to record and share detailed up to date methods for research.
Based in Germany, Springer Nature has been advancing discovery by providing the best possible service to the whole research community for over 180 years. Springer Nature helps researchers uncover new ideas, and makes sure all the research is significant, robust and stands up to objective scrutiny

Bigtincan (ASX:BTH) Acquires Modus

July 21, 2023
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Bigtincan, the global leader in sales enablement automation, has acquired Modus, a sales enablement platform that helps businesses to create meaningful engagements. Modus makes it easy for teams to share content, for sellers to find that content to advance deals, and for operations to prove value.
Seller: Modus
Modus is a sales enablement platform that helps businesses to create meaningful engagements. Modus makes it easy for teams to share content, for sellers to find that content to advance deals, and for operations to prove value.
Bigtincan helps sales and service teams increase win rates and customer satisfaction. The company’s AI-powered sales enablement automation platform features the industry’s premier user experience that empowers reps to more effectively engage with customers and encourages team-wide adoption.

Edanz Acquires Scribendi

April 12, 2023
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M3, Inc. has announced the acquisition via its subsidiary Edanz Inc,. of Scribendi Inc., which provides global editing and proofreading services. Canada-based Scribendi owns an editing and proofreading platform with approximately 400 active freelancers and provides services to 28,000 clients annually.
Canada-based Scribendi owns an editing and proofreading platform with approximately 400 active freelancers and provides services to 28,000 clients annually, including the global academic community, students, researchers, authors, companies, and individuals for whom English is a second language.
Buyer Parent: M3, Inc.
Edanz owns a freelance platform with approximately 500 top-class scientific and medical research professionals, supporting the drafting and editing of research papers mainly within the medical field. They are a globally leading company within English editing services for research papers.

Courtroom Connect Announces its Acquisition by Greybull Stewardship

March 27, 2023
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Courtroom Connect has been acquired by Greybull Stewardship, a private investment firm focused on small, growing businesses. Founded in 2001, Courtroom Connect is a leading provider of litigation support connectivity and specializes in developing technology solutions and online platforms to expand access to legal proceedings.
Courtroom Connect, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, provides a comprehensive selection of connectivity services, including video, audio, evidence, and text streaming, as well as videoconferencing for remote attendance at trials, hearings, depositions, and arbitration.
Greybull Stewardship is a private investment firm comprised of experienced operators, dedicated to helping small, growing businesses realize their full potential.

Inco-Check, LLC Acquired by Narrow Gauge Capital

May 19, 2022
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Narrow Gauge Capital, a private equity firm, has completed the acquisition of a majority interest in Inco-Check, a provider of software and end-to-end quality control, specialty audit, compliance, and reporting services for mortgage and consumer lenders and servicers.
Inco-Check is a provider of software and end-to-end quality control, specialty audit, compliance, and reporting services for mortgage and consumer lenders and servicers. IC leverages QC Ally, its proprietary, web-based platform to support all GSE, regulatory agency, and investor requirements.
Narrow Gauge Capital, based in Boston, is a private equity firm controlled by Adam Doctoroff and Travis Metz. NGC pursues buyouts and recapitalizations in growth-oriented businesses with strong management teams.

Berkery Noyes Represents Electra Information Systems in its Acquisition by Gresham Technologies

June 22, 2021
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Gresham Technologies plc specializes in providing real-time solutions for data integrity and control, banking integration, and payments and cash management, has announced its agreement to acquire post-trade automation specialists, Electra Information Systems, Inc.
Electra provides post-trade operations workflow solutions and data services for reconciliation, trade matching, settlement and fee billing to global institutional buy-side firms. Firms can quickly scale to business demands and gain value from their patented technology across the post-trade process.
Gresham Technologies plc is a leading software and services company that specializes in providing real-time transaction control and enterprise data integrity solutions. Gresham’s Clareti software platform is designed to provide financial institutions with complete certainty in their data processing.

McGraw Hill Acquires Kidaptive, an Adaptive and Personalized Learning Company

March 16, 2021
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NEW YORK, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw Hill today announced that it has acquired Kidaptive, Inc., an adaptive learning platform company with industry-leading expertise in learning science, early learning, and data analytics worldwide.Kidaptive's world-class team of learning scientists, psychometricians, data scientists and engineers will j
Seller: Kidaptive
Kidaptive, Inc. is an adaptive learning platform company with industry-leading expertise in learning science, early learning, and data analytics worldwide. Kidadaptive is the brainchild of Stanford alumni P.J. Gunsagar and Dylan Arena.
McGraw Hill is a learning science company that delivers personalized learning experiences that drive results for students, parents, educators and professionals. They focus on educational equity, affordability and learning success to help learners build better lives.

Berkery Noyes Represents CheckMarket in its Acquisition by Medallia

February 24, 2021
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Medallia, a pioneer and market leader in Experience Management, has acquired CheckMarket. CheckMarket is a survey platform in Belgium that enables organizations to conduct insightful surveys and gain actionable feedback from customers, employees, and more.
CheckMarket is a survey platform in Belgium that enables organizations to conduct insightful surveys and gain actionable feedback from customers, employees, and more. CheckMarket allows users to quickly create and edit surveys and provides extensive reports from multiple channels.
Buyer: Medallia
Medallia is the pioneer and market leader in Experience Management. The company's award-winning SaaS platform, the Medallia Experience Cloud, leads the market in the understanding and management of experience for customers, employees and citizens.

SitusAMC Expands Warehouse Lending Offering with Acquisition of Street Resource Group

February 23, 2021
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SitusAMC, a prominent provider of technology and services to the real estate finance industry, has acquired Street Resource Group, Inc. (SRG) and its widely utilized Warehouse Loan System (WLS). SRG is the leading technology provider to the warehouse lending sector, supporting more than 1,500 independent mortgage originators.
Street Resource Group is the leading technology provider to the Mortgage Banker Finance ("Warehouse Lending") space. The flagship Warehouse Loan System ("WLS") technology is a trusted solution for lenders small-and-large and has been servicing the warehouse lending space for more than 25 years.
Buyer Parent: Stone Point Capital
Buyer: SitusAMC
SitusAMC is the leading independent provider of technology, strategic outsourcing, talent, and advisory solutions to the commercial and residential real estate finance industries. The company helps clients realize opportunities in their real estate businesses through industry-leading services.

Berkery Noyes Represents Voxnest in its Acquisition by iHeartMedia

October 23, 2020
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iHeartMedia, the No. 1 audio company in America and the No. 1 commercial podcast publisher globally, will acquire Voxnest, the leading consolidated marketplace for podcasts and the best-in-class provider of podcast analytics, enterprise publishing tools, programmatic integration, and targeted ad serving.
Seller: Voxnest
Voxnest provides professional solutions for podcasters and brands looking to engage with listeners. The company's comprehensive tools for podcast creation, distribution, management, measurement, monetization, and advertising include Spreaker, Spreaker Enterprise, and Dynamo.
iHeartMedia is the number one audio company in the United States, reaching nine out of 10 Americans every month. The company’s services include more than 850 live broadcast stations in over 160 markets nationwide and is available across more than 250 platforms and 2,000 devices.

SitusAMC Adds ComplianceEase Software to Growing Technology Portfolio

September 15, 2020
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SitusAMC Holdings Corp., a prominent provider of services and technologies to the real estate finance industry, has acquired LogicEase Solutions Inc., the parent company of leading residential regulatory compliance technology provider ComplianceEase®. The acquisition adds industry-leading automated compliance software ComplianceAnalyzer to SitusAMC
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, ComplianceEase is the mortgage industry's leading provider of compliance software solutions supporting mortgage originators, capital and secondary market participants, and regulators.
Buyer: SitusAMC
SitusAMC is the leading independent provider of advisory, strategic outsourcing, talent and technology solutions to the commercial and residential real estate finance industry. They help clients realize opportunities in their real estate businesses through industry-leading services.

Berkery Noyes Represents HighWire Press in its Acquisition by MPS Limited

July 1, 2020
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MPS Limited, a leading provider of content, learning, and platform solutions, has completed the acquisition of HighWire Press, a US company that provides digital content development and hosting services to ~140 influential societies, university presses and independent publishers that produce journals, books, and other scholarly publications.
Seller Parent: Accel-KKR
HighWire is a US company that provides digital content development and hosting services to ~140 influential societies, university presses and independent publishers that produce journals, books, and other scholarly publications. It was founded by Stanford University Libraries in 1995.
MPS provides platform, learning, and content solutions and is a global partner to the world’s leading enterprises, publishers, learning companies, and content aggregators.

Berkery Noyes Represents UNSILO in its Acquisition by Cactus Communications

January 28, 2020
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Cactus Communications, a global scientific communications company, has acquired UNSILO, a Denmark-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing company that specializes in text analytics, linguistics, and data science. UNSILO provides AI tools and solutions for publishers to grow their business and improve customer experience.
Seller Parent: Infosys Limited
Seller: UNSILO
UNSILO is a Denmark-based AI and Natural Language Processing company that specializes in text analytics, linguistics, and data science. UNSILO provides AI tools and solutions for publishers to grow their business and improve customer experience through the company's various products.
Cactus is a global scientific communications company that offers scholarly, medical communications, and technology solutions to the scientific community. Cactus helps overcome language barriers, geography, and reach, spread research through innovative technology, and create meaningful impact.

Berkery Noyes Represents Pharos in its Acquisition by International Market Centers (“IMC”), a Portfolio Company of The Blackstone Group

January 15, 2020
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International Market Centers announced its launch of IMC_di, a wholly-owned, stand-alone, B2B e-commerce division, with the acquisition of Pharos (formerly a division of Whereoware). Pharos is an integrated sales, marketing and commissioning software tailor-made for the gift and home furnishings industry.
Pharos enables Vendors and their Sales Rep partners to modernize their business through easy-to-use and affordable e-commerce, marketing, and sales software. Pharos is a one-stop-shop for an impressive and effective online experience.
Buyer Parent: Blackstone Group LP
International Market Centers (IMC) is the world’s largest operator of premier showroom space for furniture, gift, home décor, rug, and apparel industries. IMC owns and operates nearly 20 million square feet of world-class exhibition space in High Point, N.C., Las Vegas and Atlanta.

Berkery Noyes Advises OpenConnect in its Sale to ActiveOps

August 1, 2019
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UK headquartered ActiveOps Ltd, a leader in digital operations management solutions has acquired OpenConnect Inc, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. OpenConnect is the leader in process intelligence and workforce analytics solutions that automatically discover, automate, and improve service processes and optimize workforce productivity.
OpenConnect is the leader in process intelligence and workforce analytics solutions that automatically discover, automate, and improve service processes and optimize workforce productivity. OpenConnect enables clients to more quickly address and adapt to operational and competitive challenges.
ActiveOps is a leading provider of digital operations management solutions to financial services, shared services, BPOs, government, healthcare and other service industries. Their cloud-based solutions are proven to optimise operations, reduce costs, and improve service delivery.

New Capital Partners Invests in ARMCO

July 22, 2019
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New Capital Partners (NCP), a private equity firm in Birmingham, Ala., has partnered with Pompano Beach, Fla.-based ACES Risk Management Corp. (ARMCO), the leader in web-based quality assurance software for the financial services industry. ARMCO provides range of mortgage quality control, compliance and transaction risk management technologies.
Seller: ARMCO
Over half of the top 20 mortgage lenders in the U.S. choose ACES Risk Management (ARMCO) as their provider for transaction risk management software. ARMCO’s product line includes loan quality enterprise software, services, data and analytics.
New Capital Partners (NCP) is a private equity firm comprised of former operators headquartered in Birmingham, Ala. NCP makes investments in niche, tech-enabled services companies in the healthcare, financial and business services industries.

Evidera to Acquire Medimix, Expanding Solutions for Real-World Research

May 30, 2019
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Evidera, a business unit of PPD, LLC, and a provider of evidence-based solutions demonstrating the real-world effectiveness and safety of health care products, will acquire Medimix International, a global technology company providing real-world evidence (RWE) insights and information to the pharmaceutical, diagnostic and medical device industries.
Medimix International specializes in providing business understanding, real-world evidence insights to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Medimix’s primary solution, LiveTracker™, is a cloud-based platform that provides real-time monitoring of clients’ particular therapeutic markets.
Buyer Parent: Carlyle Group
Buyer: Evidera
Evidera, a PPD business unit, is a leading provider of evidence-based solutions to demonstrate the real-world effectiveness, safety and value of health care products. They help biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies generate the evidence needed to optimize the market access.

Berkery Noyes Advises Aries Systems in its Acquisition by Elsevier

September 10, 2018
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Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, announced it has acquired Aries Systems, a leader in scientific publication workflow solutions headquartered outside Boston, MA. Aries' offerings are used for manuscript submission, peer review, production tracking and eCommerce.
Aries Systems transforms the way scholarly publishers bring high-value content to the world. The company’s innovative and forward-looking workflow solutions manage the complexities of modern print and electronic publishing.
Buyer Parent: RELX Group plc
Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. Elsevier provides digital solutions in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, and more.

iContracts Acquires PolicyMedical

July 6, 2018
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iContracts, a leading provider of cloud-based contract, compliance, and revenue management solutions announced that it has acquired Toronto, Canada based PolicyMedical, an industry-leading provider of cloud-based policy lifecycle management solutions.
Toronto, Canada based PolicyMedical is an industry-leading provider of cloud-based policy lifecycle management solutions. Their comprehensive SaaS-based solutions enable healthcare organizations to centralize and standardize the administration of policies and procedures.
iContracts is a leading cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of contract management and compliance solutions for healthcare, education and industrial customers.

Berkery Noyes Advises Collect Rx

June 20, 2018
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New Capital Partners (NCP), a private equity firm, announces that is has acquired Collect Rx, a leading revenue cycle management (RCM) company. The company leverages its Business Intelligence (BI) engine to analyze claims and increase reimbursement for healthcare providers.
Collect Rx is a niche RCM (revenue cycle management) provider headquartered in Bethesda, Md. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on providing their services to surgery centers, hospitals, physician-owned practices, laboratory diagnostic facilities and behavioral health centers.
New Capital Partners (NCP) is a private equity firm headquartered in Birmingham, Ala. NCP makes investments in niche, tech-enabled services companies in the healthcare, financial and business services industries.

Higher Logic Acquires Marketing Automation Platforms Informz and Real Magnet

October 16, 2017
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Higher Logic, an industry leader in cloud-based community platforms, has acquired Real Magnet, Inc. Real Magnet is a leading marketing automation platform that helps businesses attract, engage and deliver better email, marketing, social and mobile campaigns.
Real Magnet is a leading marketing automation platform that helps businesses attract, engage and deliver better email, marketing, social and mobile campaigns. Real Magnet simplifies marketing automation with its intuitive design.
Buyer Parent: JMI Equity
Higher Logic is an industry leader in cloud-based community platforms. Organizations worldwide use Higher Logic to bring like-minded people all together by giving their community a home where they can meet, share ideas, answer questions and stay connected.

Berkery Noyes Advises PatientSafe Solutions in its Majority Recapitalization by HighBar Partners

September 25, 2017
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PatientSafe Solutions (PatientSafe), a leader in mobile clinical workflow and communication solutions, has closed a round of financing led by HighBar Partners with participation from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Camden Partners, Psilos Group, and TPG.
PatientSafe Solutions, Inc., is a San Diego-based provider of software and hardware products, including handheld devices for nurses, bar-coded patient wrist bands and bed side patient portals that interface with hospital information systems to provide patient safety and increase clinical quality.
Buyer Parent: Merck & Co., Inc.
HighBar Partners is a private investment firm focused on strategic growth capital investments in enterprise and infrastructure software companies. Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Camden Partners, Psilos Group, and TPG are investment companies.

IO Education Acquires eSchoolData, Expanding Northeast Presence

September 19, 2017
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IO Education, a market leader in helping educators use data to improve student outcomes, has acquired eSchoolData, a provider of student and data management solutions for K-12 school districts. eSchoolData's comprehensive, web-based solution features a teacher gradebook, a parent and student portal, data analytics capabilities, and more.
eSchoolData provides a web-based Student Management System that features a teacher gradebook, a parent and student portal, a transportation management module, data analytics capabilities, and more. eSchoolData gives schools the power to turn data into knowledge and knowledge into informed decisions.
Buyer Parent: LLR Partners
IO Education is on a mission to empower educators with data to improve educational outcomes. They focus on developing innovative solutions that break down data silos and improve outcomes for three areas of school districts: student achievement, educator effectiveness and operational efficiency.

Rubicon Announces Investment from Quad Partners

September 10, 2017
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Rubicon, the leading provider of curriculum design and instructional decision making solutions for the K-12 marketplace announced an investment by Quad Partners, a private investment firm focused exclusively on the education industry.
Rubicon partners with innovative education leaders to improve student performance and instructional practice with curriculum management and assessment data integration software alongside professional development services.
Quad Partners was founded in 2000 to make value-added private investments in the education industry. Today, Quad is one of the most active investors in privately-owned education companies in the United States.

Berkery Noyes Represents Amazing Charts in its Sale to Harris Computer

September 6, 2017
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Constellation Software Inc. announced its wholly-owned division N. Harris Computer Corporation has acquired Amazing Charts, LLC, a business providing Electronic Medical Record (EHR), Practice Management (PM) software and Medical Billing services to primary care and specialty outpatient practices.
Amazing Charts provides Electronic Health Records (EHR/EMR), Practice Management, and other Health IT solutions to healthcare practices. Based on number one user ratings for usability, fair pricing, and overall satisfaction, Amazing Charts EHR has been adopted by more than 11,000 clinicians.
Since 1976, Harris has focused on providing feature-rich and robust turnkey solutions to Public Sector, Schools, Utility, and Health Care agencies. Harris’ focus is on creating long-term relationships with its customers and ensuring that it meets the changing needs of its customers over time.

Berkery Noyes Advises BE Press, a Leading Service Provider Used by Academic Institutions to Showcase Their Research, in its Acquisition by Elsevier

August 2, 2017
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Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, acquired Bepress, a Berkeley, California-based business that helps academic libraries showcase and share their institutions' research for maximum impact.
Seller: Bepress
Founded by professors in 1999, Bepress exists to serve academia. Bepress builds hosted solutions that let academic institutions showcase and share their works for maximum impact. The Bepress model is unlimited, cloud-based, and fully hosted, and includes dedicated consulting and support.
Buyer Parent: RELX Group plc
Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. Elsevier provides digital solutions in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, and more.

LoyaltyExpress Announces Investment from New Capital Partners to Accelerate Innovation and Growth

June 28, 2017
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LoyaltyExpress, a provider of marketing automation and cloud-based CRM solutions for mortgage companies and banks, announced an investment from New Capital Partners (NCP), a private equity firm focused on financial and health care services.
LoyaltyExpress simplifies CRM and marketing automation for banks and mortgage companies. Its flagship solution, CustomerManager, is an enterprise-wide, Software-as-a-Service platform that combines lead management, email and direct mail campaigns with a 360-degree view of a loan officer's customers.
New Capital Partners is focused on building great companies by investing in high-growth businesses and partnering with management teams in the healthcare, financial services, and business services industries. New Capital Partners is headquartered in Birmingham, AL and has an office in Dallas, TX.

Berkery Noyes Advises Verisys’ Shareholders on the Company’s Growth Investment from Spectrum Equity and Cressey & Company

March 15, 2017
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Verisys Corporation, a leading provider of technology solutions and primary-source data on healthcare professionals and businesses, announced that Spectrum Equity, along with Cressey & Company and Verisys CEO John P. Benson, have made a significant growth equity investment in the Company.
Verisys is the leading provider of health care credentialing services with the most current, accurate, and comprehensive data and technology tools. Since 1992, Verisys has been leading the health care industry by providing the highest quality data coupled with deep health care industry experience.
Spectrum Equity is a leading growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support to innovative Internet, software and information services companies. Cressey & Company LP is a private investment firm focused exclusively on investing in and building leading healthcare businesses.

Berkery Noyes Advises Core Informatics in its Acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific

March 6, 2017
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced that it has acquired Core Informatics, which provides a cloud-based platform supporting scientific data management. Core’s offerings will enhance Thermo Fisher’s existing informatics solutions and complement its cloud platform, which supports the company’s genetic analysis, qPCR and proteomics systems.
Core Informatics partners with customers in biopharma, genomics, and other industries to deliver lab informatics solutions to derive more value and insight from scientific data. Core Informatics provides the scalable Platform for Science that enables customers to build workflows for specific needs.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. offers an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive support. They help customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity.

Career Step Acquires Panacea Healthcare Solution’s Revenue Capture and Coding and Documentation Divisions

February 6, 2017
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Career Step, an online provider of career-focused education and professional training, has acquired the Revenue Capture and Coding and Documentation Divisions of Panacea Healthcare Solutions. Panacea Healthcare Solutions provides expert coding, compliance, technology and financial advice to hundreds of healthcare providers each year.
Panacea Healthcare Solutions provides expert coding, compliance, financial consulting and information technology to hundreds of healthcare providers and organizations each year to proactively maintain compliance and identify risk and new incremental net revenue opportunities.
Career Step is an online provider of career-focused education and corporate training. Career Step provides training for the largest and most respected healthcare employers in the nation and is committed to helping students and practicing professionals gain the skills they need to be successful.

Vocera Acquires Extension Healthcare

October 27, 2016
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Vocera Communications, Inc., the leading healthcare communications company, announced that it has acquired Extension Healthcare for approximately $55 million in an all-cash transaction. Extension Healthcare is a leading provider of clinical, event-driven communication and workflow collaboration software for the hospital environment.
Extension Healthcare’s Engage™ “one platform” approach improves clinical communication, collaboration, care coordination, and workflow with a specific focus on reducing unnecessary clinical interruptions and improving response to critical patient events.
Vocera Communications, Inc. offers the most robust clinical communications system in healthcare. Vocera delivers secure, integrated and intelligent communication solutions that enable care teams to collaborate more efficiently by delivering the right information.

PowerSchool Acquires Chalkable to Bring Positive Behavior Intervention and Classroom Culture into K-12’s Most Comprehensive Unified Classroom Solution

October 19, 2016
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PowerSchool, the leader for K-12 education technology solutions, announced the acquisition of Chalkable, a leading provider of a student achievement and regional education data management solution.The acquisition provides PowerSchool with additional capabilities to track student behavior, an area of increasing need for educators.
Seller Parent: SCP Partners
Seller: Chalkable
Chalkable is a leading provider of education data management, student achievement and professional learning solutions to the K-12 public and private school markets.
PowerSchool is the #1 leading education technology platform for K-12. They provide best-in-class, secure, and compliant online solutions, including student information systems, registration and school choice, assessment and analytics, and special education management.

Veronis Suhler Stevenson “VSS” Invests in Connexion Point, LLC

October 18, 2016
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VSS, a private investment firm focused on the information, tech-enabled business services, healthcare IT, and education industries, announced its investment in Connexion Point, LLC. Connexion Point is a leading provider of technology-enabled healthcare services, specializing in communication lifecycle services for the healthcare industry.
Connexion Point is a leading provider of technology-enabled healthcare services, specializing in communication lifecycle services for the healthcare industry. Connexion Point facilitates communication, throughout the lifecycle of the consumer, that connects the healthcare industry to their consumer.
Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) is a leading private investment firm that invests in the information, business services, healthcare IT, education, media and marketing services industries in North America and Europe.

Medstreaming Announces Acquisition of Registry Software Vendor M2S

March 29, 2016
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Medstreaming, a leading provider of innovative healthcare cardiovascular and radiology workflow software solutions, announced the acquisition of M2S, a leading provider of registry software technology designed for healthcare quality improvement.
Seller: M2S
M2S, Inc. provides medical image, data management, and and outcomes analysis services for the improvement of patient outcomes. It offers image management solutions to allow customers to collect, view, and manage imaging data.
Medstreaming is a provider of innovative healthcare cardiovascular and radiology workflow software solutions. Since 2006, Medstreaming has become a leader in delivering specialty-based workflow applications that function as a “best of breed” application for over 20 different clinical specialties.

FTV Capital Leads Growth Equity Investment in True Potential

January 29, 2016
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True Potential LLP, the leading UK-based integrated investor and wealth management technology platform serving advisers and retail clients in the UK, announced it had sold a significant minority share of its group business to FTV Capital, its first institutional investor.
True Potential LLP is the leading UK-based integrated investor and wealth management technology platform serving advisers and retail clients in the UK.
FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $1.8 billion since inception to invest in high-growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in three sectors: enterprise solutions, financial services, and payments/transaction processing.

Chronos Solutions to Acquire Cutting Edge Mortgage Technology Company Cogent Road

December 15, 2015
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Chronos Solutions, a national real estate finance services provider, has acquired Cogent Road, a San Diego-based mortgage technology company. Cogent Road develops three core products for the mortgage origination market: Funding Suite, Tax Door and Roohmz.
Cogent Road, Inc. provides enterprise-wide Web based software applications for the mortgage industry. Its solutions are Funding Suite, an AVM management solution, AVAIL, assists mortgage originators, Roohmz Mortgage, a workflow automation solution, and Gravity, a mortgage industry CRM solution.
Chronos Solutions is a national technology enabled real estate finance services provider delivering elite mortgage and real estate services across the industry. Chronos offers customized transactional and business process management services to private sector and government clients.

Aptean Enters Healthcare Industry With Acquisition of Medworxx Solutions, Inc.

October 15, 2015
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Aptean, Inc., a leading provider of industry-focused mission critical enterprise software solutions, announced the completion of its acquisition of Medworxx Solutions Inc., a leader in clinical patient flow, and compliance and education solutions.
Medworxx helps hospitals meet patient flow challenges and requirements for compliance and education. Medworxx Clinical Criteria, the flagship component of Medworxx Patient Flow, is currently used to manage 32% of the acute-care beds in Canada as well as acute-care beds in the United States.
Buyer: Aptean
Aptean is a provider of industry-focused mission critical enterprise software solutions. They build and acquire solutions to support the evolving operational needs of their customers. Their solutions help nearly 5,000 organizations by satisfying their customers and continuing to operate efficiently.

Pearson Sells Family Education Network to Sandbox Partners

May 21, 2015
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Sandbox & Co., an industry-focused investor committed to building businesses at the intersection of the digital, learning and media sectors, has acquired Family Education Network (FEN) from Pearson. FEN is an online consumer network of the world's best learning and information resources, personalized to help parents, teachers, and students.
Seller Parent: Pearson plc
Family Education Network is the best of the Internet's content, resources, and shopping for parents, teachers, and kids. The company's mission is to be an online consumer network of the world's best learning and information resources, personalized to help parents, teachers, and students.
Sandbox is an industry-focused investor committed to building and supporting businesses at the intersection of the digital, learning and media sectors. Founded in 2014, the partners of Sandbox have a long track-record of acquiring, transforming and scaling businesses and brands internationally.

Solidifi Acquires Southwest Financial Services Ltd., One Of The Largest Independent Providers Of Outsourced Services To Home Equity Lenders

May 4, 2015
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Solidifi, a leading independent provider of residential real estate appraisals and the service provider of choice for more than half of the top 100 lenders in the United States, is proud to announce the acquisition of Cincinnati-based Southwest Financial Services Ltd., a national, independent provider of outsourced services to home equity lenders.
Southwest Financial Services, Ltd. has been a trusted partner to many of the nation's largest lending institutions for more than 30 years. Their proven solutions and state-of-the-art technology combine to offer clients seamless and efficient title, flood determination and valuation services.
Buyer Parent: Real Matters
Buyer: Solidifi
Solidifi is a leading independent provider of residential real estate appraisals. The company has built a strong reputation and partnership with more than 25,000 appraisers. The company is the appraisal service provider of choice for more than half of the top 100 lenders in the U.S.

Telecom Expense Management Firm Asentinel Acquired by Marlin Equity Partners

January 12, 2015
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Asentinel, LLC, a leading provider of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) software and complementary services that help streamline and automate fixed and mobile telecom spend, has been acquired by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with over $3 billion of capital under management and a successful track record in the technology industry.
Asentinel, a leading provider of Telecom Expense Management (TEM) software, meets the needs of customers by providing telecommunications lifecycle management solutions and services that are delivered through a customer-focused, technology-driven SaaS technology platform.
Marlin Equity Partners is a global investment firm with over $3 billion of capital under management. The firm is focused on providing corporate parents, shareholders and other stakeholders with tailored solutions that meet their business and liquidity needs.

Truven Health Analytics Completes Acquisition of Heartbeat Experts

November 6, 2014
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Truven Health Analytics, a leading provider of healthcare analytics and data solutions and services, announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Heartbeat Experts, the global leader in stakeholder management solutions for the life sciences industry.
Heartbeat Experts combines strategic consulting, enterprise software, data, analytics and market research to provide solutions that help Life Sciences and Financial Services firms drastically improve the success of their products.
Truven Health Analytics is a leading provider of healthcare analytics and data solutions and services across the entire healthcare industry. They are dedicated to delivering the answers their clients need to improve healthcare quality and reduce costs.

Cryptzone Acquires HiSoftware

September 8, 2014
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Cryptzone has acquired HiSoftware Inc. HiSoftware provides end-to-end information security and compliance solutions to help organizations address business process, regulatory and productivity concerns around the secure collaboration of data in content management systems and social environments.
HiSoftware provides end-to-end information security and compliance solutions to help organizations address business process, regulatory and productivity concerns around the secure collaboration of data in content management systems and social environments.
Buyer Parent: Medina Capital
The Cryptzone Group is a technology innovator of proactive controls to mitigate IT security risk. Its solutions enable organizations to securely connect, collaborate and comply within the digital workplace, thereby improving document security, access control and compliance auditing capabilities.

Equian Acquires AfterMath Claim ScienceEnhancing Payment Integrity Data

June 16, 2014
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Equian completed the acquisition of AfterMath Claim Science, Inc. effective June 16, 2014. Based just outside of Chicago, IL, AfterMath Claim Science is a post-payment recovery services company that identifies and eliminates medical claim payment errors.
AfterMath Claim Science is a specialized overpayment recovery company, with data mining techniques aimed at specific claim types not detected by traditional claims overpayment services. Its Member Eligibility Overpayment (MEO) recovery program is the highest performing recovery program of its kind.
Equian is a healthcare information services company focused on lowering the cost of care by eliminating waste. It provides pre-payment solutions, post-payment solutions, and data analytics methodology.

The Roberts Group Announces Strategic Investment from Polaris Partners

April 3, 2014
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Polaris Partners has invested in The Roberts Group. The Roberts Group, of New York, provides market data cost and inventory management solutions to the financial services industry. They are the developer of the Financial Information Tracking System, FITS, a market data inventory management solution available to the Financial Services Industry.
The Roberts Group (TRG) is the developer of the Financial Information Tracking System, FITS, the most comprehensive market data inventory management solution available to the Financial Services Industry. TRG provides market data consulting services ranging from FITS Consulting to Systems Deployment.
Polaris Venture Partners is a group of investors and technology executives with a successful track record of investing in and partnering with early-stage entrepreneurs in both information and medical technology.

SirsiDynix Acquires EOS International Business

November 4, 2013
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SirsiDynix, a library management technology company, announced the acquisition of EOS International, a California-based technology company that develops award-winning solutions for legal, government, corporate, medical, and other special library customers.
For over 30 years, Electronic Online Systems (EOS) International has been developing, marketing and supporting award-winning library automation and knowledge management solutions for thousands of special libraries worldwide.
SirsiDynix connects people with knowledge at more than 23,000 libraries around the world. Through library management technology and search and discovery tools, libraries using SirsiDynix technology bring relevant resources and the power of knowledge to their users and communities.

Berkery Noyes Represents Cengage Learning In The Sale Of NetLearning To HealthcareSource

December 4, 2012
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HealthcareSource® announced that it has acquired NetLearning, a leading provider of learning management software and content for the healthcare industry. The combination of HealthcareSource and NetLearning results in the first company to provide a complete, end-to-end talent management solution designed specifically for healthcare.
Seller Parent: Apax Partners
NetLearning is an e-learning solutions provider developing products specifically for the healthcare industry since 1995. The NetLearning product suite allows for the deployment, management, and reporting of training-related activities.
HealthcareSource is the leading provider of talent management software for the healthcare industry. HealthcareSource helps healthcare organizations source, hire, assess, develop and retain the best workforce possible in order to reduce costs and to improve patient satisfaction and safety.

Berkery Noyes Represents Healthx In Its Majority Recapitalization By Frontier Capital

January 5, 2012
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Frontier Capital is pleased to announce that it has partnered with existing management to complete a majority recapitalization of Healthx, Inc., a leading provider of online healthcare portals to health insurers, medical providers, and employers.
Seller Parent: Liberty Partners
Healthx develops and manages the most widely adopted portals and applications for the healthcare and human resources markets. Healthx was formed to meet the unique communication needs of the healthcare industry by helping payers and employers deliver benefits faster and at a lower cost.
Frontier Capital is a Charlotte-based growth equity firm focused exclusively on technology enabled business services. Frontier partners with management teams that can benefit from capital to accelerate growth, fund acquisitions, or generate shareholder liquidity.

Berkery Noyes Represents Class.com in its Sale to Cambium

September 23, 2011
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Cambium Learning Group, Inc., a leading educational company focused primarily on serving the needs of at-risk and special student populations, announced that the Company has purchased the assets of Class.com, an industry-leading provider of online learning solutions.
Class.com equips educators with the tools to help every student succeed by providing schools and organizations with high-quality, research-based, online learning solutions that cater to the needs of 21st-century learners.
Cambium Learning Group is the leading educational company focused primarily on serving the needs of at-risk and special student populations. The company operates three core divisions: Voyager, Sopris, and Cambium Learning Technologies.

Berkery Noyes Represents Strata Decision Technology In Its Sale To Veronis Suhler Stevenson

July 21, 2011
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Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a leading global private investment firm, announced that an affiliate has acquired financial software company Strata Decision Technology, LLC (SDT). Strata Decision Technology develops, markets and implements web-based financial analytics and performance management software tools.
Strata Decision Technology is a pioneer in the development of innovative software tools for financial and business analytics in the U.S. healthcare industry. Strata Decision Technology is a trusted technology partner to leading hospitals, academic medical centers, and healthcare systems.
Veronis Suhler Stevenson, founded in 1981, is a leading private equity firm that makes buyout and mezzanine investments in the information, education and media industries in North America and Europe.

Berkery Noyes Represents Bookette Software in its Sale to McGraw-Hill Education

March 3, 2011
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McGraw-Hill Education has acquired Bookette, a privately held software company, adding key capabilities in online performance measurement. Bookette's smart-scoring engine evaluates high volumes of student writing responses, enabling assessments to incorporate writing while easing the burden of scoring.
Bookette Software, located in Monterey, Calif., specializes in creating software for the development, administration, scoring and reporting of computer-based curriculum assessment. It was founded in 1990 by Dr. Ronald Loiacono.
One of the first American publishers to introduce objective, standardized achievement tests to schools, CTB/McGraw-Hill is a leader in testing with recognized products for online formative, adult, and language proficiency assessment.

SunGard Acquires PredictiveMetrics to Broaden the AvantGard Suite and Expand into Trade Credit Liquidity

February 3, 2011
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SunGard announced that it has acquired PredictiveMetrics, a provider of predictive scoring and analytical services for trade credit, debt collections, utilities and other markets. PredictiveMetrics’ core services around credit and collection analyses will become part of SunGard’s AvantGard Receivables solution.
PredictiveMetrics is a global leader in providing predictive scoring and analytical decision solutions using advanced statistical techniques for credit, collections and debt recovery collections. PredictiveMetrics’ decision technology spans many industries, types of financing, and ages of debt.
SunGard is a global leader in software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also helps information-dependent enterprises of all types to ensure the continuity of their business.

Image Solutions Inc. Sold to CSC

December 6, 2010
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Computer Sciences Corporation announced it has closed the acquisition of Image Solutions, Inc. (ISI), a privately-held, global leader in regulatory submission management solutions and related implementation and outsourcing services for the Life Sciences sector.
Founded in 1992, Image Solutions, Inc. is a proven market leader in providing submissions solutions, process services and consulting to Life Sciences companies as a way to improve clinical and regulatory processes that bring new medicines to market.
Computer Sciences Corporation is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector.

Oracle Buys Relsys

March 23, 2009
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Oracle Corporation has completed the acquisition of Relsys International, Inc. The combination of Oracle and Relsys is expected to deliver the only suite of software applications that supports end-to-end drug safety processes across clinical development, post-market surveillance and patient care.
Relsys International is the leading global provider of drug safety and pharmacovigilance solutions that help pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies ensure regulatory compliance, streamline operations, and improve product safety.
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. The company is a leading provider of systems software, including database management, application development, and application server software.

Berkery Noyes Represents Dydacomp In Its Sale to Dydacomp Holdings Corporation and Milestone Partners

January 16, 2008
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Berkery Noyes, a leading independent investment bank serving the media, information and technology markets, represented D.A. Kopp & Associates, Inc., Card Management Services, L.L.C., and Card Financial Services, L.L.C. (Dydacomp) in its sale to Dydacomp Holdings Corporation and Milestone Partners.
Dydacomp specializes in multi-channel software solutions for e-commerce, catalog, DRTV, and traditional point-of-sale business.
Milestone Partners is a private equity firm that partners with management to invest in leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations of lower middle market businesses. Milestone pursues successful niche-market leaders that provide high margin products or services.

Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents Asset Control in Strategic Transaction with Fidelity Ventures

April 4, 2007
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Asset Control, the leading provider of Centralized Data Management solutions to the financial services industry, announced that Fidelity Ventures has taken a majority investment in the company.
Asset Control is the world's leading provider of Centralized Data Management to financial industry firms. With a complete range of in-house and outsourced options, Asset Control delivers Total Data Management, a hybrid approach to data management.
Buyer Parent: FMR Corp.
Fidelity Ventures invests in technology companies at the "Go-To-Market" stage. Its 40-year track record includes hundreds of successful investments in the consumer, communications, systems and software markets.

Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents Mobeon AB in its sale to Ericsson

March 20, 2007
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Berkery, Noyes & Co., LLC, a leading independent investment bank serving the information and technology markets, represented Mobeon AB, the world's leader in IP-messaging components for mobile and fixed networks, in its sale to Ericsson. Mobeon's IP-based voice and video mail are the key elements of Ericsson's Enriched Messaging solution.
Seller: Mobeon
Mobeon is a leading global telecom software provider focused on maximizing messaging revenue through providing specialized, next-generation software, to tier-one telecom vendors. Mobeon's CompEdge messaging platform provides flexible tools for a range of different services.
Buyer Parent: Ericsson AB
Ericsson is shaping the future of Mobile and Broadband Internet communications through its continuous technology leadership. Providing innovative solutions in more than 140 countries, Ericsson is helping to create the most powerful communication companies in the world.

Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents NameProtect in it sale to Corporation Service Company

March 23, 2007
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Corporation Service Company, a privately-held company and leading provider of legal and financial services to corporations and law firms, has acquired NameProtect, a privately-held leader of digital brand management solutions for the Global 2000.
Seller Parent: Mason Wells
NameProtect, a digital brand management company, provides a comprehensive suite of trademark clearance and advanced monitoring services that support the entire life cycle of a brand in today’s digital economy.
Corporation Service Company, a privately-held company headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, is a leading provider of legal and financial services for many of the world’s largest companies and law firms.

Berkery, Noyes & Co. represents Elsevier, Inc. in its divestiture of Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.

November 21, 2006
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Francisco Partners, one of the world's largest technology-focused private equity funds and owner of Ex Libris, a leading global developer and provider of high-performance applications for libraries and information centers, has successfully completed its acquisition of Endeavor Information Systems, Inc., an Elsevier company.
Seller Parent: Reed Elsevier
EIS Inc. has been providing integrated library solutions since its inception in 1994. With an executive team base that has a strong heritage in the library industry, Endeavor grounds product line development in knowledge, commitment and the embrace of new proven technologies.
Buyer Parent: Francisco Partners
The Ex Libris group is a worldwide supplier of software solutions and related services for libraries and information centers. The Company's flagship product, ALEPH 500, is a market leader in the field of library automation for higher education and large corporations.

Berkery, Noyes & Co. advises ClearStory Systems on its divestiture of Document Solutions Business to Datawatch Corporation

May 3, 2006
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Datawatch Corporation, a leader in the rapidly growing Information Services market space, today announced that it has closed the acquisition of the Integrated Document Archiving and Retrieval Systems (IDARS) business from ClearStory Systems, Inc.
ClearStory digital asset management software suite manages the enterprise digital media supply chain — from creation and collaboration, to lifecycle management and delivery — to give companies reduced operational costs, improved productivity, and increased revenues.
By providing solutions that build on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework and Monarch report mining technologies, Datawatch allows organizations to access, enhance, analyze and deliver information from wherever it resides inside or outside the enterprise to solve business problems.
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Berkery Noyes Releases First Quarter 2012 Software Industry Mergers & Acquisitions Report

Apr 3, 2012

Berkery Noyes, an independent mid-market investment bank, today released its First Quarter 2012 Mergers and Acquisitions Trend Report for the Software Industry. Q1 2012 transaction value in the Software Industry increased 10 percent, whereas transaction volume declined 10 percent compared to the previous quarter. Within the niche software classification, which is software designed to be used by specific vertical industries, software targeted to financial firms was one of the most active segments. The largest related deal for the quarter was Vista Equity Partners' announced acquisition of Misys, a provider of banking and financial services software solutions, for $2 billion. Upon deeper inspection, 52 percent of financial software deals in Q1 2012 were related to capital markets. According to Berkery Noyes managing director Peter Ognibene, "Big data is increasing the demands on trading, modeling, executing, and portfolio management." Two niche capital markets software transactions, Envestnet's announced acquisition of Tamarac and SEI Investments' announced acquisition of NorthStar Systems International, pertained directly to wealth management. Cloud computing is continuing to have a significant impact on the enterprise software landscape. Oracle's announced acquisition of Taleo for $1.9 billion was the largest business software transaction in Q1 2012, while Blackbaud's announced acquisition of Convio for $274 million was the tenth largest deal in the Software Industry. Symantec Corporation's announced acquisition of LiveOffice Corporation for $115 million was one of the largest infrastructure software transactions for the quarter. Regarding this segment, transactions with a specific focus on security increased 75 percent over Q4 2011. "As indicated by Safenet's acquisition of Cryptocard, Alert Logic's acquisition of Armorlogic, and TrustWave's announced acquisition of M86 Security this quarter, there is healthy demand for companies offering cloud based and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cyber security solutions," said Christopher Young, managing director at Berkery Noyes. M&A relating to security was responsible for 30 percent of infrastructure software deals in the quarter, compared to 15 percent in Q4 2011. Several of these involved mobile security solutions. For instance, Symantec's acquisition of Nukona and Odyssey Software, the company's two other Q1 2012 deals, focus on security for mobile devices. Twitter's January acquisition of Dasient, a cloud based company that helps avert malware attacks, shows the social networking site is committed to securing its user's data. This comes in the aftermath of Twitter's Q4 2011 acquisition on Whisper Systems, a security software startup for mobile platforms. A copy of the Q1 2012 SOFTWARE INDUSTRY M&A TREND REPORT is available at the Berkery Noyes website.