SoftwareONE and COMPAREX to Form a Leading Global Platform, Solutions and Services Company

Customers will benefit from the combined company’s expanded scale, with locations and local-language teams across 88 countries and support across 150 countries.

• Customers will benefit from the combined company’s expanded scale, with locations and local-language teams across 88 countries and support across 150 countries
• The combined company will be home to more than 5,500 highly experienced employees, forming the industry-leading “software-optimized, cloud-managed” workforce
• SoftwareONE and COMPAREX together will help customers optimize and manage an estimated €10 bn in software purchases
• COMPAREX’s CEO Thomas Reich and CSO Marc Betgem to join SoftwareONE’s Executive Management Team

By coming together, COMPAREX will enhance SoftwareONE’s customer offerings by combining industry leading talent, expertise and capabilities. Following the combination, SoftwareONE will help customers optimize and manage an estimated €10 bn in software purchases. The combined company will have an expanded global reach across 88 countries, allowing customers to receive on-the-ground, local-language support wherever they operate, from more than 5,500 employees. A comprehensive services and solutions portfolio, driven by proven and continued investment in innovation, will provide customers with more advanced solutions, including SoftwareONE’s PyraCloud, an industry-leading platform for digital software supply chain management

“As a private company, we carefully review potential acquisitions to ensure that we are best utilizing our capital. Along with our investor KKR, we spent considerable time intensely searching for the ideal partner and are convinced we have found it with COMPAREX. Together, we will be driven by SoftwareONE’s core values as we continue to transform the industry. SoftwareONE’s founders will remain majority shareholders of the combined company," said Daniel von Stockar, Chairman of SoftwareONE Board of Directors.

Information Technology and Software have transformed from supporting a business to driving businesses forward. SoftwareONE has an intense focus on software solutions and delivering business-outcomes for its customers, as well as a clear focus on people development and building a services-solutions-platform portfolio centered around customer needs.

For customers, SoftwareONE serves as a source of authority on ensuring their technology spend has the right impact within their business, as well as connecting them to modern outcome-driven solutions that enable their business to be more agile and competitive. SoftwareONE’s partners trust the company’s strategic expertise and experience to build customer solutions on their cloud platforms, while enabling the partners to reach their globally distributed customers.

COMPAREX, with its deep technical knowledge of more than three decades, has evolved into one of the world’s leading IT service providers. It has become an integration layer between its customers and the major IT and cloud platform providers, offering global managed services optimizing customers’ investment in technology. With an exceptional expertise in workforce productivity, COMPAREX is supporting customers during their digital journey towards productivity optimization.

COMPAREX has become an important partner for the industry, supporting digital transformation with tailored cloud solutions, enabling the customers to focus on their core business while relying on COMPAREX’s cloud and IT competence.

The combination is fully aligned with SoftwareONE’s focus on long-term growth and investment in the company’s employee base. SoftwareONE is committed to both the personal and professional development of its employees, who will receive significant opportunities to flourish as part of a leading global organization. To support this, COMPAREX’s Chief Executive Officer Thomas Reich and Chief Sales Officer Marc Betgem will join the SoftwareONE Executive Management Team.

SoftwareONE will maintain its headquarters in Stans, Switzerland. Together, the company will have more than 200 locations across 88 countries, with an ability to support across 150 countries. COMPAREX’s Leipzig campus will continue to play an important role in serving global and EMEA customers.

Closing is expected in the first half of 2019. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals.

SoftwareONEは、スイスに本社を置き、エンドツーエンドのソフトウェアおよびクラウドテクノロジーソリューションを提供する世界的な大手プロバイダーです。バリューチェーン全体の機能を備え、企業の技術戦略の設計と実装、適切なソフトウェアとクラウドソリューションの適切な価格での購入、ソフトウェア資産の管理と最適化を支援しています。同社の製品は、SoftwareONE独自のデジタルプラットフォームであるPyraCloudによって接続されており、データドリブンの実用的なインテリジェンスを顧客に提供しています。約5,400人の従業員を擁し、90カ国で販売およびサービス提供をするSoftwareONEは、約65,000社の企業顧客に7,500社以上のパブリッシャーのソフトウェアおよびクラウドソリューションを提供しています。SoftwareONEの株式（SWON）は、スイス証券取引所（SIX）に上場しています。

As a global IT company with thirty years of experience, COMPAREX is a mayor global IT service provider and software license management company. COMPAREX develops innovative managed services that support companies leveraging their software and cloud investments and increasing their workforce productivity. COMPAREX serves corporate customers spanning from small businesses to large international corporations as well as public institutions. The COMPAREX Group employs 2,500 people at over 80 locations in 36 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas, and generated a revenue of € 2.533 billion in 2017/18. To learn more about COMPAREX, visit https://comparex.com.