M&A Deal Summary

SSA Global Technologies Acquires E.piphany

On September 29, 2005, SSA Global Technologies acquired software company E.piphany from Integral Capital Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is SSA Global Technologies’ 2nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is SSA Global Technologies’ 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is SSA Global Technologies’ 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2005-09-29
Target E.piphany
Sector Software
Buyer(s) SSA Global Technologies
Sellers(s) Integral Capital Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

E.piphany

San Mateo, California, United States
Analytic and Operational Customer Relationship Management Software.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

SSA Global Technologies

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Category Company
Founded 1981
Sector Information Technology
DESCRIPTION

SSA Global Technologies is the company that emerged from the August 2000 acquisition of substantially all of the assets of System Software Associates, Inc. by Gores and Cerberus Capital Management. SSA Global is a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, services and public organizations worldwide. In addition to core ERP applications, SSA Global offers a full range of integrated extension solutions including corporate performance management, customer relationship management, product lifecycle management, supply chain management and supplier relationship management.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector: Software M&A 2 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 2
State: California M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2005 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2002-10-28 Infinium Software

Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States

Infinium Software, Inc. develops, markets, implements, maintains, and supports enterprise-level business software applications, which are optimized for the IBM eServer iSeries.

Buy $95M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Integral Capital Partners

Menlo Park, California, United States

Investor


Category Venture Capital Firm
Founded 1991
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Integral Capital Partners operates as a group of partnerships that invests in expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies in the information and life sciences industries. Within information sciences, Integral focuses on communications-centric computing, real-time computing, and mobility. Within life sciences, Integral targets companies that deal in emerging medical technologies and healthcare information systems. The Firm operates in partnership with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, which incubated the Firm in 1991, as well as private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. Integral Capital Partners is based in Menlo Park, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 36 of 67
Sector: Software M&A 11 of 17
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 24 of 45
State: California M&A 26 of 48
Country: United States M&A 35 of 66
Year: 2005 M&A 6 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-09-29 Genomic Health

Redwood City, California, United States

Genomic Health, Inc. is a life science company, involved in the research and development of genomic based clinical laboratory services for oncology treatment. Genomic Health was founded in 2000 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-11-11 Serena

Redwood City, California, United States

Serena is a provider of enterprise application lifecycle management software. Serena is one of the largest independent ALM vendors and the only one that orchestrates DevOps, the processes that bring together application development and operations. Serena was formed in 1980 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Buy $1.2B