Buyer for SAP consultancy company in Europe

• Revenue: more than EUR 1 million
• Employees: not a decisive factor
• Location of the target: Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The company is a well-established SAP consultancy company and wants to grow in Europe via acquisitions. They are open to speaking to interested sellers
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The buyer is a leading SAP consulting company that delivers solutions for SAP customers. The company is not very large, it has around 40 employees, but has adopted a strategy for growing its operations in Europe by acquiring another company with the same kind of activity and products. It is mandatory for the target company to have a large database of clients. The buyer company has the necessary funds to sustain the transaction with a suitable enterprise.

The company is a technology business that provides IT solutions such as ERP, transformation services, analytics solutions and data governance. It uses SAP technology and is specialized in SAP upgrade, migration, and integration. Due to these solutions, business processes are improved, and performance is increased inside an organization; aspects that together lead to more efficient activity, with cost-effectiveness being a strong competitive advantage. The company uses SAP NetWeaver to introduce ERP systems, to design and implement business intelligence solutions, to integrate diverse ERP systems so that clients are able to simplify and leverage their business flows for better operational results and more consolidated decisions.

The company services the customers with professional consulting regarding SAP technology and how it can answer to the customer’s specific needs. Clients are updated with new technical developments in order to achieve performance improvement for their inside processes. The company helps in finding the best solutions for the customer’s systems integration, whether this means to migrate to the cloud or to deploy on-site or any other option that the customer wants to pursue. This allows for the discovery of more opportunities and updated process integration in order to obtain a stronger competitive advantage such as mitigating risks or making better decisions. For other commercial partners, it is important that their IT infrastructure works properly and is simplified in order to respond to different challenges, this is how the company ensures efficient IT infrastructure management. Clients are from various industries such as oil, gas, construction, infrastructure, fashion and retail, for which the company delivers specific services such as data analysis or data management.

The company is looking to acquire a company that operates in the same activity and has similar services such as:

• SAP implementation: SAP A1, SAP SCM , CRM, ERP Central Component
• Big data and analytics
• ABAP development and SAP module support
• Infrastructure management

A full range of services and solutions are provided for mobility process, which is a complex set of processes that require a transformational roadmap to be determined and a range of factors that influence the capacity to design, configure, implement, integrate, test and to support the SAP solutions for a company.

Products include:

• Order management system
• Resource planning
• Migration template
• Purchase management solution

• The buyer is a technology business that provides consultancy and support for SAP users
• The company has decided to expand its operations in Europe and is looking to acquire another company with the same kind of activity and products
• Target companies should have a strong financial position and a large database of clients