SoftwareONE AG

SoftwareONE in the world

• Private enterprise since 1985
• The international headquarters is located in the municipality of Stans (Switzerland); the company has 65 local divisions covering 145 countries
• Over 3,000 + sales, customer service, technology and consulting professionals

History

2022

Decision to leave Russia. Transfer of Russian assets to Awara IT group of companies

Awara IT Russia and SoftwareONE Russia announced the creation of a joint full-cycle multivendor IT company. The newly formed Wone IT company will ensure the uninterrupted operation of customers in the face of constant global changes and will offer comprehensive strategies for building the IT landscape that will help companies work productively in the Russian market. This was announced on May 16, 2022 by TAdviser representatives of SoftwareONE.

Purchase an IT company to integrate SAP and Microsoft Centiq software

In early February 2022, SoftwareONE bought Centiq. The financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed. More details here.

Multi-year agreement with AWS

On January 25, 2022, SoftwareONE Holding AG announced a multi-year strategic cooperation agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the implementation of cloud technologies among its customers. Under this agreement, SoftwareONE and AWS will collaborate to accelerate the implementation of AWS services and solutions in all key industries, supporting joint investments in market promotion and expanding service delivery capabilities.

Key areas of collaboration include promoting Simple for AWS tools from SoftwareONE, migrating enterprises to AWS cloud solutions, and adapting and promoting the AWS marketplace in conjunction with the PyraCloud from SoftwareONE platform.

The company SoftwareONE helps its users manage them software and those used cloud services using digital supply chains ON and certified services and platforms to optimize the use of cloud technologies (FinOps Certified). With access to thousands of independent developers (software ISVs) concentrated in the SoftwareONE ecosystem, customers can use economies of scale to add value to the AWS Estate service. At the same time, customers will have the opportunity to optimize the current costs of cloud services from AWS and improve the quality of their management. The PyraCloud from SoftwareONE platform is a single digital interface that gives users the ability to manage software and cloud service costs.

With AWS investment, SoftwareONE will continue to effectively develop its global Cloud Competency Center with best-in-class and fully certified AWS resources to support and enhance user experience. In addition, the company will SoftwareONE provide specialized training for AWS cloud specialists at its SoftwareONE Academy education center, attracting the best experts from various fields of activity. SoftwareONE Academy will improve the quality of AWS education programs to expand opportunities in both sales and technology, in order to support the entire path of the client and the overall growth of AWS practice. This approach will support the improvement of user experience, as well as ensure the full growth of SoftwareONE activities in the partnership with AWS.

We maintain long-term relationships with our customers, modernizing their software, clouds and technologies to achieve the goals of digital transformation. This agreement with AWS demonstrates SoftwareONE 's desire to expand the global practice of promoting multi-cloud strategies among customers. It supports our vision of growth of own services in service of applications, services SAP, industry solutions for various industries, cloud services and FinOps to consolidated revenues of 1 billion the Swiss francs by 2025. Finally, the implementation of this agreement will help platform users PyraCloud optimize the consumption of AWS cloud services, said Dieter Schlosser, CEO of SoftwareONE.

As we accelerate the adoption of cloud technologies, we are pleased to work with AWS partners such as SoftwareONE, who are global in scope and have extensive cloud expertise and capabilities to meet the critical challenges and complex needs of today's organizations. noted Jeff Kratz, AWS Vice President for International and Public Sector Partner Programs.

2019

SoftwareOne bought BNW Consulting

In early November 2019 SoftwareOne , she announced the acquisition of BNW Consulting in order to expand her expertise in the field of products and services. SAP The financial component of the transaction is not disclosed. More. here

Exit to the exchange: capitalization - $2.82 billion

On October 25, 2019, SoftwareONE made an initial public offering of its shares. The IT company set the IPO price at 18 Swiss francs, estimating its market capitalization at 2.8 billion Swiss francs ($2.82 billion).

SoftwareONE listed its shares on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX Exchange) under the ticker SWON. Global coordinators and joint bookrunners of the IPO chose bankicredit Suisse, J.P. Morgan and UBS, and the financial consultant of SoftwareONE acted as Rothschild & Co.

Europe's largest IT vendors, data

On the first day of trading, SoftwareONE shares rose slightly in price. At the peak, quotes reached 18.79 francs. Nevertheless, investors called this IPO successful.

The listing consisted exclusively of secondary shares of the founding shareholders, KKR (bought a 25% stake in SoftwareONE in 2015) and Peruni (the main investor of Comparex), as well as management. At the same time, the founding shareholders retained the largest share - 30%. KKR has 15% left. The founders of the SoftwareONE, including Chairman of the Board of Directors Daniel von Stockar, as well as representatives of KKR will remain on the board.

According to Reuters, the founders and KKR chose the Swiss Exchange to place SoftwareONE securities in order to earn money on the local stock market, which reached record highs. So, the SPI (Swiss Performance Index) from the beginning of 2019 to October increased by 25%.

The channelweb.co.uk website presented a chart that reflected the market capitalization of Europe's largest suppliers of IT products and services. Judging by this image, SoftwareONE is second only to Bechtle and CDW.

Danielfon Stokar, commenting on the company's entry into the exchange, called it "a natural next step in development that opens up new opportunities" for SoftwareONE.^[1]

SAMSentry Software Management Developer Purchase

In May 2019, SoftwareONE announced the acquisition of a management developer. ON SAMSentry More. here

Partnership with Mail.ru Cloud Solutions

Mail.ru Group chooses SoftwareONE (formerly COMPARX) as a strategic partner for providing cloud services to Russian businesses.

The Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) platform offers IaaS - and PaaS-level services, cloud container service and an application store, the list of which is constantly being updated. The development of the platform relies on the 20-year expertise of Mail.ru Group in the development of IT infrastructure, serving the company's own services with millions of users. The platform also provides its customers with a transparent payment model that allows you to calculate the exact cost of the required service in advance, either with the help of SoftwareONE specialists (formerly COMPARX) or directly on the MCS website.

Thanks to the partnership, SoftwareONE Russia (formerly COMPAREX) will provide services on a reliable and secure technology platform, and Mail.ru Group will expand the list of available cloud products for its users through the solutions of SoftwareONE Russia (formerly COMPAREX). The partnership will allow two leading companies to offer Russian companies the most profitable conditions for acquiring cloud services, their high reliability and security.

2018

Dieter Schlosser - new CEO

In December 2018, SoftwareONE announced the appointment of Dieter Schlosser as the new CEO instead of Patrick Winter, who died a few months earlier. More details here.

Buying Comparex

On October 9, 2018, the merger of SoftwareONE and Comparex was announced, under which a combined company is being created that will manage software license sales in the amount of 10 billion euros. More details here.

2015

• Sales in 2015 exceeded $5.5 billion, with annual growth rates exceeding 40% over the last 10 years
• Extensive coverage of software manufacturers - over 9000
• Over 24,000 customers worldwide, including international companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, government and academic institutions and NGOs

Services

SoftwareONE helps customers manage their software portfolio to reduce complexity, cost, and risk to customers, while increasing the flexibility of their IT environment to adapt to changing business needs. The Software Portfolio Management (SPM) approach covers all aspects of the customer software lifecycle, including

• Transform their business needs into a portfolio management strategy
• Optimize both the procurement process and the licensing terms of the installed software
• Manage your customers' software needs, use and deployment, and compliance with existing license agreements

• End-to-end software lifecycle management - from strategic to stand-alone licenses
• Forecasting and strategy development taking into account the risks associated with compliance with license terms and costs
• Improve vendor and application portfolios with full transparency
• End-to-end optimization of software costs and requirements
• Assessment of technical feasibility and anticipation of prospective plans
• Ability to assign portfolio management functions to specialists from SoftwareONE