M&A Deal Summary

Insight Acquires Datalink

On November 7, 2016, Insight acquired information technology company Datalink for 258M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Insight’s 5th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Insight’s 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Insight’s 5th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Insight’s 1st transaction in Minnesota.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2016-11-07
Target Datalink
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Insight
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 258M USD
Advisor(s) Raymond James - Investment Banking (Financial)
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP (Legal)

Target

Datalink

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
Datalink Corp. is a provider of IT services and enterprise data center solutions. Datalink delivers value to Fortune 1000 and public sector clients by providing complete IT solutions that include hardware, software and services to create business impact for their clients.

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Buyer

Insight

Chandler, Arizona, United States
Category Company
Founded 1988
Sector Information Technology
Employees14,437
Revenue 9.2B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Insight Enterprise's corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona.
Entrance to Insight Enterprise's corporate headquarters in Tempe, Arizona.

Insight develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and devices. Insight provides cloud-based services to consumers and businesses; designs, manufactures, and sells devices that integrate with its cloud-based services; and delivers online advertising to a global audience. Insight's products include operating systems for computing devices, servers, phones, and other intelligent devices; server applications for distributed computing environments; cross-device productivity applications; business solution applications; desktop and server management tools; software development tools; video games; and online advertising. Insight also designs and sells hardware including PCs, tablets, gaming and entertainment consoles, phones, other intelligent devices, and related accessories. Insight was formed in 1988 and is based in Chandler, Arizona.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 15
Sector (Information Technology) 5 of 8
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 6 of 14
State (Minnesota) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 5 of 10
Year (2016) 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-08-31 Ignia

Perth, Australia

Ignia is a business technology consulting and managed services provider. Ignia specializes in digital transformation, delivering solutions for organizational agility, productivity and competitive performance.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-09-29 Caase.com

Enschede, Netherlands

Caase.com is specialist in Microsoft Office 365, Azure, EMS (mobile management) and Windows. Caase.com provides the proprietary Digital Workplace (Social Intranet). This Digital Workplace provides the users, in combination with the right adoption, that customers experience the route to the cloud as pleasant, successful and highly effective.

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