SoftwareONE partners with KKR to accelerate future growth
Summary
The company is a leading channel partner for Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, VMWare, SAP and a further 9,000 software publishers and provides digitized platforms for procurement and self-consumption services. Patrick Winter, the CEO, added: “We, at SoftwareONE, continue to work hard at serving our customers and supporting our software publisher partners all around the world. Johannes Huth, Head of KKR Europe, Middle East and Africa, said: “The partnership with SoftwareONE follows our strategy of investing behind strong European entrepreneurs and their teams to help them grow their businesses in international markets, in particular the US and Asia.” Jean-Pierre Saad, Director in KKR’s Private Equity Technology team in Europe, said: “Proliferation of software applications, growth in cloud adoption and increasing complexity of enterprise IT environments is the new reality within corporate IT departments. As experts in all stages of the software lifecycle, SoftwareONE is uniquely positioned to benefit from those trends and continue to offer innovative solutions to address its customers’ needs. By combining our commercial, technology, compliance and governance expertise covering the full lifecycle of our clients’ software needs, we support our customers by ensuring their IT investments are cost-effectively road mapped towards their unique business needs.