Empresas y finanzas

update software AG acquires German banking CRM specialist ORGAPLAN Software GmbH



    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.