Investments: Software & Technology Portfolio

The company is a leading technology provider of business management solutions serving small and medium-sized retail and wholesale distribution businesses in three primary vertical markets: hardlines and lumber; wholesale distribution; and the automotive parts aftermarket. Founded in 1972, Activant provides customers with tailored proprietary software, professional services, content, supply chain connectivity, and analytics. More than 30,000 customer locations use an Activant solution to manage their day-to-day operations. Activant has operations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Canada, France, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

The world’s largest independent provider of access and integration software for legacy systems, Attachmate enables organizations to maximize the value of their existing IT investments as they advance their long-term business and IT strategies. More than 40,000 customers representing over 16 million desktops worldwide take advantage of Attachmate’s software products and deep expertise to help them run their businesses securely, efficiently and competitively.

Acquisitions made by Attachmate Corporation:
NetIQ Corporation

Consona is a business software and service provider offering customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), knowledge management (KM) and product configuration software. Consona’s software solutions automate critical business tasks ranging from marketing, service and support to planning and scheduling, material requirements planning (MRP), accounting, product configuration, and business intelligence. The company’s CRM and ERP business solutions are used by more than 4,500 customers worldwide and across a variety of industries, including manufacturing and professional services.

Embarcadero provides professional grade database management tools for designing, developing and managing databases and the data they contain. More than 12,000 customers worldwide and over 90% of Fortune 100 companies rely on the company's cross-platform tools to reduce complexity, improve productivity and strengthen security in their database applications. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Entrust secures digital identities and information for consumers, enterprises and governments in more than 2,000 organizations spanning 60 countries. Leveraging a layered security approach to address growing risks, Entrust solutions help secure the most common digital identity and information protection pain points in an organization. These include SSL, authentication, fraud detection, shared data protection and e-mail security. 

Flexera Software provides solutions that help simplify the business relationship between software producers and enterprises. The company’s product line includes the FLEXnet® and InstallShield® family of products that were previously offered by the Software Business Unit of Macrovision Corporation, from which the business was acquired. These software products enable software vendors to better manage entitlements, licensing, compliance, installation, and electronic software delivery.

Hyland Software, established in 1991, is a leading developer and marketer of enterprise content management (ECM) software. The company’s popular OnBase® enterprise content management solution is deployable at both the departmental and enterprise levels and provides organizations with unique, modular solutions that help them streamline their work processes and share information among their employees, business partners and customers. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Hyland markets OnBase® throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Japan.

iTera products integrate IBM System i high availability and continuous availability solutions. The company was formed in 1997 and specialized in the development of software solutions to increase and improve the availability of iSeries (AS/400) systems as well as streamline data management processes. With its merger with Thoma Bravo portfolio company Vision Solutions, Inc. in November 2006, iTera became part of the new Vision Solutions, which has focused its expanded resources on IBM System i infrastructure software and become IBM's largest high availability Premier Business Partner worldwide. The companies’ combined products for this market are offered under the iTera brand.

Manatron is a leading provider of integrated, enterprise-level property tax solutions for state and local governments. The company’s software manages the entire property life cycle, which includes deed recording, land records, GIS (Geographic Information System) integration, valuation, assessment administration, personal property, business licenses, cashiering, tax billing and collection, delinquents and tax sales and e-government. Manatron serves customers throughout the United States and in Canada, South Africa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A national IBM® Premier Business Partner and the largest IBM Solution Provider in the U.S., Sirius distributes servers, storage products, printers, software and related services primarily to small and medium sized businesses.

Vision Solutions is the world’s leading provider of high availability (HA), disaster recovery and data and systems management solutions for IBM Power Systems. With a portfolio spanning the industry’s most innovative and trusted HA technologies from iTERA, MIMIX and ORION Solutions, Vision keeps critical businesses information continuously protected and available. Affordable and easy to use, Vision products ensure business continuity, increase productivity, reduce operating costs and satisfy compliance requirements.  As IBM’s largest HA Premier Business Partner, Vision Solutions oversees a global network of business partners and services and support professionals to help its customers achieve their business goals.