update software AG acquires German banking CRM specialist ORGAPLAN Software GmbH
April 26 2007 - 8:35AM
Business Wire
Frankfurt Stock Exchange-listed update software AG (FWB:UP2), one
of Europe�s leading providers of premium CRM solutions with its
headquarters in Vienna (www.update.com), has taken over 100 percent
of German CRM specialist ORGAPLAN Software GmbH (www.orgaplan.de).
The deal was closed in Cologne on Thursday, April 26, 2007. The
acquisition process was conducted with the involvement of aspect
corporate advisors GmbH, an independent M&A advisory company
seated in Bad Honnef. The purchase price in the amount of EUR 5.8
million will be paid on the basis of a 2-year earn-out model. With
this takeover, update is continuing its strategy of sector
focussing and is consistently expanding its technology and
competence leadership in CRM systems for the financial services
segment. �By merging ORGAPLAN with the currently existing
competence center for financial services, update will have the
largest customer base in the German banking market and, at the same
time, the most comprehensive portfolio of tailored CRM solutions
for the banking & finance sector,� explained update CEO Thomas
Deutschmann. �The acquisition is a further step in our strategy of
growth through sector focussing. At the same time, update is
playing an active part in the consolidation process in the CRM
market.� With approximately 200 customers, ORGAPLAN Software GmbH
is the leading provider of CRM solutions in the German banking and
savings bank sector. The company�s customers include more than half
of the savings banks and public-sector credit institutions in
Germany and a third of the big commercial and agricultural credit
cooperatives. Besides its headquarters in Cologne, ORGAPLAN
operates a branch in Hanover and has approx. 60 employees. Since
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Krauss and Burkhard Demming founded the company in
1987, it has won itself an excellent reputation among Germany�s
banks and savings banks through its advisory activity and its
self-developed CRM software KBP (�Kunden-Betreuungs-Programm�). The
two founders will remain in key positions at the company following
the takeover. Given that the two solutions of update and ORGAPLAN
cater to disjoint market segments and have been successfully
established in the market for years, after the takeover update will
pursue a two-product strategy for the financial services market �
with life-time support for both products. About update software AG
Founded in Vienna in 1988, update software AG (www.update.com) is
Europe�s leading provider of premium CRM solutions, with currently
more than 200 employees and annual revenues of EUR 23.4 million in
2006. update software AG is listed on the Frankfurt am Main Stock
Exchange. update products are used by more than 120,000 employees
at over 1,000 companies. References include 3M, American Express
Bank und Finanzmanagement, the Advertisements Department of the
BILD newspaper group, AstraZeneca, BAWAG P.S.K., Canon, DuPont,
ESTAG, Hassia Gruppe, HVB, Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz International
S.A., LBS Nord, LBS Ost, MagnaSteyr, Pernod Ricard, Sony
Deutschland, Sparkasse Bremen and ratiopharm. update software AG
cooperates with carefully selected systems integration partners
such as Atos Origin, Hewlett Packard, Sensix and Steria Mummert
Consulting.
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