Strategic Acquisitions

CDC Software has acquired a number of leading enterprise software and business services firms, united in offering solutions that help businesses become customer-driven market leaders, while achieving our financial return objectives and creating value for our shareholders.

Enterprise Software

Business Services

Enterprise Software Companies

February 2007—Respond Group Ltd.

Respond is recognised as the market-leading provider of enterprise complaints and feedback management software. The company's solutions provide organisations of any size with a scalable complaint and feedback management infrastructure to improve the customer experience. With a large active customer base and exceptional growth figures, Respond has significant market share in both the high-profile financial services sector and the highly regulated public sector. The US and the Republic of Ireland are also primary markets for Respond.

The Respond suite of products enables organisations to extend and improve customer service capabilities to front-line staff, while providing extensive management information to drive change and improve business practices. The solution is proven to deliver cost reductions, increased efficiencies and demonstrably improved processes, services, customer satisfaction and profitability.

October 2006—MVI Technology

MVI Technology, an enterprise software company with offices in the U.S. and U.K., has been established for 15 years working in the consumer products manufacturing sector. Regarded as a thought leader in the major wave of new manufacturing operations management solutions known as real-time performance management (RPM) or enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI), MVI Technology combines extensive food sector consulting knowledge with ground-breaking software that is focused on (out-of-the-box) production metrics and visible action cycles. MVI is staffed by experts with backgrounds in continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, industrial automation, and business practice.

February 2006—JRG Software, Inc.

JRG Software, Inc. is the leader in providing build-to-consumption production scheduling solutions for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry. The JRG product suite includes JRG Factory Scheduler and JRG Performance Manager, enabling customers to deliver on-time to Wal-Mart and other power retailers, while minimizing production and inventory carrying costs. JRG is located in San Mateo, Calif., and was founded in 2001.

May 2006—c360 Solutions

c360 Solutions is a leading provider of add-on products, industry solutions, and development tools for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. c360 products are sold exclusively through a network of over 650 authorized partners that have delivered c360 solutions to more than 1,500 customers worldwide in more than eight languages. Based on nominations and support from the Microsoft partner community, c360 was recognized as Microsoft's 2005 "Partner Choice ISV (Independent Software Vendor)." c360 is a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner.

August 2004—Ross Systems, Inc.

Ross Systems delivers innovative enterprise software solutions that help manufacturers worldwide fulfill their business growth objectives through increased operational efficiencies, improved profitability, strengthened customer relationships, and streamlined regulatory compliance. Focused on the food and beverage, life sciences, chemicals, metals, and natural products industries and implemented by more than 1,200 customer companies worldwide, the Atlanta-based company's family of Internet-architected solutions is a comprehensive, modular suite that spans the enterprise, from manufacturing, financials, and supply chain management to customer relationship management, performance management, and regulatory compliance. Customers include Ghirardelli Chocolates, Sees Candies, Cambrex Corporation, Anabolic Laboratories, Schenectady International, First American Resources, Tafisa Canada, and many more around the world.

February 2004—Pivotal Corporation

Pivotal Corporation is a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM) applications that help organizations manage complex business relationships across marketing, sales, service, and partner processes for long-term stability and growth.

Pivotal's CRM applications offer rich functionality, a highly flexible application platform, a full application suite, and best-in-class customization abilities, all with a low total cost of ownership. Pivotal delivers software and services that are designed to produce meaningful increases in revenues, margins, and customer loyalty. Pivotal's complete CRM software suite includes a powerful application platform and additional capabilities in analytics, mobile CRM, and partner management. More than 1,800 companies around the world have licensed Pivotal, including Farm Credit Services of America, WCI Communities, Premera Blue Cross, Qiagen, AvMed Health Plans, Sharp Electronics Corporation, and WellCare Health Plans.

September 2003—Industri-Matematik International (IMI)

IMI is an international provider of software solutions for crucial supply-chain business processes related to order management, demand replenishment, store replenishment, and logistics execution. For 35 years, IMI has helped clients optimize their customer-order lifecycles and replenishment processes so they can excel in their respective industries. IMI enables companies to satisfy, retain, and grow existing customers profitably, and to attract new customers by managing the order line cost-effectively.

IMI customers cover the entire retail value chain, from manufacturers to logistics and business service providers to wholesalers and retailers. Customers include some of the world's leading brands, such as Ahlsell, Royal Ahold, Campbell Soup, Canadian Tire, Carlton & United Breweries, Dial, Frito Lay, GE Plastics, Kellogg's, Price Chopper, JM Smuckers, Sherwin Williams, Starbucks, TNT Express, and Warner/Electra/Atlantic.

October 2002—MarketFirst

MarketFirst Software, originally based in Mountain View, California, provides an adaptive marketing automation and lead management solution that enables marketers to manage even the most complex, multi-channel marketing campaigns. Using CDC MarketFirst, marketing professionals can utilize the visual campaign designer feature to create e-mail and web page streams, profile customers and prospects, target each with a highly personalized and relevant message, deliver the message at the right time via the right channel, and ensure consistent and effective follow-up.

CDC MarketFirst can help marketers achieve higher response rates and better lead quality with perpetually running, precisely targeted campaigns based on data captured at every point of interaction. It can also help increase lead quality and retention rates with fewer resources, improving return on investment (ROI).

April 2002—Platinum China Limited

Platinum China is a leading provider of human resources and payroll management software in China, with operations in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong. Serving over 700 customers, ranging from multinationals to small and medium-sized domestic companies to state-owned enterprises, Platinum China is committed to helping customers realize maximum benefits from their investment in business software applications.

Business Services Companies

December 2006—Vis.align

Vis.align, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Business Partner, is an end-to-end solution and service provider focused on providing rapid, tangible business results to organizations in the manufacturing, wholesale distribution, and consumer packaged goods industries. Vis.align's complete solution offers ERP, CRM, supply chain management, collaboration portals, mobility solutions, and managed services wrapped with a proven organizational effectiveness methodology for deployment. Vis.align's vertical industry focus and extensive Microsoft partnership, combined with its 17-year heritage of successful enterprise technology development, deployment, and management, enables its customers to achieve greater business performance and rapid ROI. Vis.align is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA with additional offices in Colorado, Illinois, Virginia, and Toronto.

February 2006—Horizon Companies, Inc.

Established in 1989, Horizon Companies is a dynamic and fast-growing company providing outsourced information technology professional services in the United States and Canada using India-based resources.

Horizon has a 17-year track record of profitable operations servicing large and medium-sized companies, principally in the northeastern and central United States. Horizon employs over 200 IT consultants who staff several major contracts. Customers include public companies such as AT&T, Citigroup, Dendrite International, Emerson Power, Henry Schein, Lucent, Pfizer, and YSI, as well as privately held companies like Inductis and Opera Solutions.

September 2003—Ascent SGI

Ascent SGI is a leading provider of end-to-end business IT solutions and services, including system integration, design, development, and implementation services. Based in the United States, Ascent SGI provides a rare blend of competencies in strategy, technology, and user experience, as well as specialized domain expertise in the financial services, insurance, healthcare, communications, technology, retail, and consumer goods industries.

September 2003—PK Information Systems

PKIS is an established Australian IT services business specializing in Microsoft technologies, .NET application development, and business intelligence solutions, including reporting, data warehousing, and data marts. PKIS customers include a large number of New South Wales State Government departments, as well as large corporate organizations.

February 2003—Praxa Limited

Founded in 1982, Praxa is an Australian IT professional services provider serving corporate and government market sectors. The company specializes in offering custom mission-critical applications and managed services. Praxa provides a full range of services—from application and infrastructure design to construction, implementation, upgrade, repair, project management, asset and contract management, and ongoing support. Praxa's capabilities also cover the provision of hardware, software, application hosting, and specialist technical consulting.

February 1999—Ion Global Ltd.

Founded in 1995, Ion Global offers website development and online marketing through offices in Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. Ion Global focuses on planning, architecting, and delivering e-business consulting services and helping clients deploy international web-based initiatives that lower costs, increase sales, and improve efficiency. Clients include Fortune 500 multinational corporations and blue-chip pan-Asian clients. Ion Global has particular experience in the financial services, travel, transportation, government, and consumer goods industries.