The Name and Ownership Change Roulette Wheel for Marcam Stops at SSA Global
Part One: Event Summary
P.J. Jakovljevic - October 14, 2004

Event Summary

SSA Global, a Chicago, IL-based extended enterprise solutions and services provider for process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing, consumer, services, and public companies worldwide, which has for the last few years become an insatiable enterprise applications market consolidator, seems to have many more aces up its sleeve. Namely, the vendor, which was once an object case of a poorly managed enterprise resource planning (ERP) company during the late 1990s, has, in a comeback fashion, since late 2001 experienced a dozen or so of consecutive quarters of growth and profitability that is possibly unique in the industry today. The company has done it while concurrently orchestrating several successful acquisitions including former EXE Technologies, Inc., Baan, Elevon, and Ironside Technologies, Infinium Software, interBiz, the former e-Business division of Computer Associates, and ICL Max International. As a result, the vendor now has 121 locations worldwide and its product offerings are used by more than 13,000 customers, some of which represent market-leading companies, in over 90 countries...