OpSource has announced that it has acquired LeCayla Technologies, a privately held, Dublin-based provider of billing and customer on-boarding software. The purchase was an all-stock transaction, the valuation of which has not been disclosed.
OpSource officials said the acquisition gives them a "complete, automated SaaS on-boarding and billing product," which it will provide to customers of its Web application delivery platform, OpSource On-Demand.
As part of the acquisition, OpSource will move its EMEA headquarters from London to Dublin and establish a development center there. OpSource will also maintain a sales and operations presence in London, including a new data center.
Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource, said at last year's SaaS Summit, "we learned that only 17 percent of existing SaaS companies have online billing and automated customer on-boarding capabilities. Most have manual, paper-driven processes."
Conor Halpin, CEO, LeCayla, will become senior vice-president, EMEA at OpSource. He will be responsible for all EMEA sales and operations and report to Ryan. LeCayla COO Gary Ramsay will continue to be responsible for the ongoing development of the on-boarding and billing product and will report to OpSource CTO John Rowell.
Last November OpSource announced that Skycom, a Japanese developer and supplier of Internet, security and document management-related software, chose OpSource On-Demand to deliver NinjaPDF for AppExchange.
NinjaPDF is Skycom's new on-demand Web application to let Salesforce.com users create portable document format files. Skycom is OpSource's first Japanese customer and represents an expansion of OpSource's international business.
(Full disclosure: At a trade show a couple years ago this reporter picked up a free OpSource notebook and pen set.)
NinjaPDF for AppExchange uses Skycom's proprietary PDF engine to convert documents into PDF files. It is the first application developed by a Japanese company that has joined Salesforce.com's AppExchange, Skycom officials say, which is pretty remarkable when you think how many hundreds of companies are on AppEx.
About a year ago
OpSource announced that ClearMeeting will be using Optimal On-Demand to offer Software as a Service (SaaS) as the sole delivery option for its customers. The ClearMeeting Express edition, a new edition of the company's No-Frills Web conferencing service, includes changes designed for Salesforce.com users.
Marjie Zander, president of ClearMeeting, said at the time "With the support of OpSource, we accelerated our AppExchange integration conversations with salesforce.com, which will result in a very timely rollout of ClearMeeting Express."
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