Corum - Experience Makes The Difference

"The Corum team was faced with a short window of opportunity, and deftly brought us to the table with the right contacts from several key players in our industry, creating a near auction environment that resulted in a very favorable outcome for SBT's shareholders."

William Mills
Albat+ Wirsam Software

Corum Group will make the difference for your company.

The Corum Philosophy
Experience Makes the Difference
The Corum Approach

Business application software companies offer applications that can govern the entire enterprise, and/or specific functions/business units. In addition these solutions govern business communications within the enterprise.

Due to heavy consolidation, business application software as a sector has become very broad in scale and includes:

Business Intelligence (BI)
Content Management (CM)
Communications
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Human Resources (HR)
Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Apax Partners' strategic investment in Plexus Systems

Plexus Systems, a Mich.-based provider of a broad suite of applications that automate business processes for discrete manufacturers.

Plexus Systems was a logical investment for Apax Partners by expanding their on-demand solutions portfolio.

Plexus Systems employs an “on-demand”, or “Software as a Service” (SaaS), delivery model that allows its single, standard code base to be accessed and shared by multiple customers via the Internet. The Plexus Online™ automates the business processes of mid-market discrete manufacturers, principally within the mission-critical areas of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Enterprise Resource Planning applications (ERP).

“Plexus has been hugely successful in addressing the needs of this market, as evidenced by their significant growth and fierce customer loyalty,” said Ward Carter, Corum president. “When it came time for the shareholders to survey their options, there were many strategic and financial players who were anxious to participate. A combination of strong sector expertise, flexibility on structure, and the ability to act quickly weighed strongly on the decision to work with Apax.”

Announcement Date: August 16, 2006
Deal Value: Undisclosed

Other Horizontal Transactions