Cherry Tree & Associates | June 2019

Cherry Tree has been tracking trends and activity in the Technology Enabled Business Services (TEBS) space for more than 15 years, including the TEBS 100, which is a broad index of 100 publicly-traded TEBS companies.

The four segments of the TEBS 100 are: Software Business Process Services Information Services Infrastructure Services

Each issue of this newsletter highlights transactions involving TEBS companies, as well as performance metrics for the TEBS 100. Cherry Tree also produces quarterly TEBS updates and a research report which are available for download:

View the Q2 2019 TEBS Quarterly Update

View the TEBS Research Report

Cherry Tree has more than 15 years of experience working with businesses in the TEBS space. Our clients include companies seeking to sell their businesses or divest non-core assets, as well as strategic and financial buyers looking to make acquisitions.  Contact Mik Gusenius at  mgusenius@cherrytree.com with any questions.

NOTABLE TRANSACTIONS – June 2019

Visa to Buy Verifi to Boost Chargeback Solution As of June 28, Visa has announced it has signed a definitive acquisition agreement with Verifi. The payment tech firm offers a suite of data-enriched solutions to help merchants avoid chargebacks on card payments. Read more www.pymnts.com Secure-24 Acquires SAP Managed Services Provider Managed services provider Secure-24 has purchased Symmetry Holding Inc., a Brookfield, Wis.-based provider of SAP managed services. Secure-24 is a subsidiary of a Tokyo-based telecommunications firm. Read more mitechnews.com Salesforce Acquires Tableau for $15.3 Billion Technology vendors have been going on for years about the rising value of data. But information that can't be understood is not worth much. That recognition is now driving some costly bets, topped by Salesforce's $15.3B acquisition. Read more www.nytimes.com Medidata Solutions Dips After $5.8 Billion Sale Medidata Solutions Inc. shares traded lower Wednesday after it agreed a takeover offer from France's Dassault Systemes SE at a discount to its current market value. Dassault said it would pay $92.25 for each Medidata share. Read more www.thestreet.com

InComm Acquires Hallmark Business Connections InComm, a leading provider of payments and technology services, today announced the acquisition of Hallmark Business Connections. Read more www.prnewswire.com Extreme Networks to Acquire Rival Aerohive for $272m Software-driven networking company Extreme Networks has announced that it will acquire Wi-Fi router maker Aerohive Networks for $272M. Read more www.techradar.com Silicon Valley Investor to Acquire Hartford's Insurity Hartford insurance-services software vendor Insurity Inc. says it will be acquired by a Silicon Valley-based private equity firm later this year. Insurity, which says it provides policy administration, billing, claims and analytics software. Read more www.hartfordbusiness.com Google Acquires Looker for $2.6 Billion The all-cash deal will blend Google's in-house data analysis tools such as Big Query with those built by Looker, which is based in Santa Cruz, Calif. It also sets up a new competitive front with Microsoft and its Power Platform/Dynamics 365. Read more www.geekwire.com

TEBS 100 INDEX PERFORMANCE

TEBS 100 INDEX METRICS

For a confidential conversation about your company's strategic alternatives for exiting, merging, acquiring, or obtaining financing, please contact Mik Gusenius. Prepared by: Mik Gusenius, Director mgusenius@cherrytree.com Phone: 952.253.6005 www.cherrytree.com 

Cherry Tree & Associates is a private investment banking firm headquartered in Minneapolis. Our firm specializes in serving middle market companies and their owners, whether private, public, or divisions of larger corporations.

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