Corum is the leading provider of software and IT M&A services; our extensive domain expertise and knowledge of the vast, complex technology landscape is critical to our client companies’ success. Thus, we have defined a market taxonomy which we feel best segments the broad market as it relates to M&A. Differentiating between primary software markets and their related subsectors and the trends and nuances of the mergers and acquisitions occurring in them, is vital in understanding how your specific company fits into the broader marketplace, and helps to outline where your best exit opportunities may exist.
We have broken down the entire software industry into the following six markets and their related subsectors. This breakdown allows for quick market identification so owners, founders, executives and other decision makers can assess where they fit in the overall scheme and quickly identify the related M&A activity, transactions and market insight which is most relevant to them.
Corum understands that every company is different and not everyone will fit cleanly into any one market or subsector. Knowing this, we feel this taxonomy allows most every company to gain a good understanding of where they operate in the overall marketplace as well as the association with complementary sectors.
Business Intelligence
Communications
Content Management
Customer Relationship Management
Enterprise Resource Planning
Human Resources
Other
Supply Chain
A/E/C
Energy & Environment
Financial Services
Government
Healthcare
Other
Digital Content
Gaming
Infrastructure Software
Communications
Development Tools
Legacy Extension/SOA
Network Management
Other
Security
Storage
Systems Management
Virtualization
Infrastructure
Pure Play Portal
IT Services and BPO