Mid Year Report: Application Software
Mirus has released its latest Technology Sector Report. This quarter we focus on Application Software. The highlighted transactions contained within the full report speak to the growing momentum building in the B2B sales and marketing software sector. While it’s taken longer than most would have expected, enterprises’ increased usage of software to support online selling […]
The Latest in Manufacturing Automation and IoT
Mirus has released its latest Technology Sector Report. This quarter we focus on Manufacturing Automation, including companies in the product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource management (ERP), supply chain management (SCM) and system integration (SI) space. In the full report you’ll find industry news, transactions, and the state of the industry. Download the full report […]
Our Latest View on IoT M&A
Mirus has released its latest Technology Sector Report. This quarter we focus on the IoT Sector, including companies that provide software, hardware and supporting services that enable connectivity and communication of physical devices, along with the analysis and application of the resulting data, applied to help users (companies or people) improve their operational efficiency. In […]
Mergers and Acquisitions in Manufacturing Automation for 2016
Mergers and acquisitions in Manufacturing Automation for 2016 goes into the books as the year of the big deal. While volume overall was soft (indeed back to 2010 levels), average transaction value was up substantially as the oligopolies focused on capturing market share and extending reach through large, single transactions. Q3 specifically produced an absolute […]
Mergers and Acquisitions in IoT – This is just the beginning
Over the past couple of years, Mirus has become increasingly involved with the rapidly developing Internet of Things sector including advising multiple companies across a variety of application domains on their growth and M&A strategy, as well as recently completing several important sell-side transactions in the space (see Eutecus press release). Mirus is very excited […]
Congratulations to Eutecus on its Sale to Sensity Systems and Subsequently Verizon
I would like to offer my congratulations to Csaba Rekeczky and the folks at Eutecus on the successful sale of their company to Sensity Systems (see http://merger.com/transactions/eutecus-acquired-sensity-systems/). The entire Mirus team, including Peter Alternative and I, are proud to have acted as advisors in this transaction and are pleased to play a part in helping […]
Mergers and Acquisitions in Manufacturing Automation H1, 2016 Update
With 2016 now underway, Mirus reaffirms its optimism about opportunities for mergers and acquisitions for 2016. With M&A running at about the same pace as 2015, we see no reason not to finish the year strong and match 2015’s volume of transactions. But, what isn’t apparent from the base volume numbers is the overall value […]
Open Source and the impact on Selling your Software Business
Now before I start, let me say that this is not a judgement on the use of open source as a part of your development strategy. My opinion is that in general that open source initiative has been a great boon to the software development community and by sharing code and tools, developers have saved […]
