Recent Transactions
ImPuls becomes part of Aptean
November 2022
GHz Partners advises shareholders of ImPuls AG on the sale to Aptean
GHz Partners is pleased to announce that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to the shareholders of ImPuls AG, a leading German provider of ERP/merchandise management systems for the fashion and lifestyle industry, on the sale to Aptean, a global provider of industry specific ERP and supply chain software solutions.
Founded in 1975 and based in Krefeld, Germany, Impuls AG’s ERP is used by over 150 customers from the clothing, footwear, accessories and sporting goods sectors to better connect business critical activities such as production planning, scheduling, flow of goods, order management, accounting and retail support. Impuls AG’s modular platform was designed especially for the fashion and apparel industry to help customers simplify inventory management and streamline mission-critical workflows. The solution also improves access to real-time data that customers need to better manage business critical operations.
Aptean is one of the world’s leading providers of purpose-built, industry-specific software that helps manufacturers and distributors effectively run and grow their businesses. Aptean is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. This transaction strategically builds on Aptean’s commitment to serving the fashion and apparel industries with an established and successful provider in the DACH region.
Cubeware becomes part of insightsoftware
October 2022
GHz Partners advises insightsoftware on its acquisition of Cubeware
GHz Partners is pleased to announce that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to insightsoftware, a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions on its acquisition of Cubeware, a German-based business intelligence (BI), analytics, and performance management specialist. This was the second mandate for GHz Partners from insightsoftware following the acquisition of IDL Group in 2020.
Headquartered in Bavaria, Germany, Cubeware offers Cubeware Solutions Platform (CSP), which provides approx. 4,000 customers with a centralized dashboard for users to quickly process, visualize, and analyze relevant BI data. The single platform offers a uniform view on customers, products, and markets with interactive and responsive applications – from data management to visualizations, reports, and guided planning workflows.
insightsoftware is a leading provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions and a portfolio company of TA Associates, Hg Capital und Genstar Capital. Over 32,000 organizations worldwide rely on the company to support business needs in the areas of accounting, finance, operations, supply chain, tax, budgeting, planning, HR, and disclosure management.
Scopevisio takes a stake in act´o-soft
July 2022
GHz Partners advises Scopevisio AG on substantial investment in act’o-soft GmbH
Informationssysteme
GHz Partners is pleased to announce that it acted as the M&A advisor to Scopevisio AG, a cloud software vendor for
medium-sized companies, on its substantial investment in act’o-soft GmbH Informationssysteme, a specialist provider
for point-of-sale (POS) enterprise software solutions.
act’o-soft offers innovative software products for the act4brand retail platform in more than 25 countries in Europe for
almost 25 years.
Headquartered in Bonn, the Scopevisio Group employs around 300 people in 2022 with a turnover of over 30 MEUR in
Germany and Austria and currently serves more than 7,500 customers with its solutions.
Further details of the transaction were not disclosed.