Buyer for business intelligence distributor in Europe

• Revenue: 2-20M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The company is an international group active in business intelligence sector. It has a strategy for growing its operations in Europe via acquisitions, therefore the management is open to speaking to interested sellers
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US buyer with an own proprietary Business Intelligence solution wants to enter the European market via an acquisition. The buyer is a well-known company and is looking to acquire another BI company that has complementary products. The enterprise has more than 40 years of experience in the field and it has a team of 100 people of software developers and Business Intelligence engineers. The buyer is focused on acquiring companies with revenues ranging from 2 to 20M Euro, companies that can add value with their solutions and can enrich the buyer’s products portfolio. Funds are specifically allocated for further acquisitions and the management is looking to talk with interested sellers.

The buyer company is an international entity with operations in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Its global team of professionals has deep knowledge of the latest most widely-used enterprise applications and technologies and has a continuous focus on research and development, software support services, consulting and training. The main goal is to help companies to use the data from enterprise systems and to turn it into valuable information that enables faster and better decisions. To achieve this goal, the company provides data analysis, business intelligence, production reporting, decision support and application development solutions. For data that is difficult to extract, using the company’s methods clients can obtain important information and gain thorough insight and knowledge to better manage the enterprise activity. The business intelligence solution is easy-to-use, can be controlled via a dashboard and has functions such as analysis, reporting and data exploration. The company built specific industrial solutions for enterprises activating in various sectors such as finance, automotive, electronics & high-tech, manufacturing, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, distribution, public utilities, healthcare and governmental institutions.

For a business intelligence solution to be successful it needs to support a fast implementation and to have a high speed of operation. Due to its special tools and features, the business intelligence platform enables the access to data sources in minutes and it doesn’t need data warehouses to be built for starting to operate. It has an intuitive, accessible and strong interface that enables the connection between the user and the current systems allowing to produce reports in no time. In the reporting area, the solution is very efficient, responds to a very wide spectrum of needs, it helps in benchmarking and streamlines business processes. Only a highly productive business intelligence platform enables the user to obtain the highest value of various types of enterprise applications. The solution has various options of deployment, it can be delivered on premise, in the cloud or a mixture of both, it supports any configuration, multi-site and multi-database.

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

• Business Intelligence
• Data Analysis
• Data Exploration
• Reporting
• Decision Support
• Application Development & Implementation
• Consulting
• Training

• The buyer is an international entity active in developing Business Intelligence solutions
• The company uses cutting edge technologies to create solutions customized to various industries
• The company has decided to enlarge its activities in Europe and is looking to buy another company with similar activities and products
• Target companies should demonstrate capabilities to enrich the buyer’s products portfolio