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ClickSoftware Technologies is a privately held company, headquartered in Israel, that offers automated mobile workforce management and service optimization solutions for enterprise and small businesses, both for mobile and in-house resources.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.clicksoftware.com/ )〕 They have over 750 employees in offices in North America, EMEA, and APAC. Its shares are listed on the NASDAQ Global Market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ir.clicksoftware.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=122672&p=irol-irhome )〕 ClickSoftware coined the term Service chain optimization in 1996. == Corporate history == ClickSoftware was founded in 1979 by Moshe BenBassat. The company's name had earlier been ClickService Software, and IET–Intelligent Electronics before that. BenBassat has held faculty positions at the University of Southern California, at Tel Aviv University and at UCLA. In an interview with The Wall Street Transcript, BenBassat explained that the company developed from what had originally been his own consulting practice. On Oct 21, 2002, ClickSoftware announced to restate financial statements for 2000 and 2001, as well as the first six months of 2002, following a review of the statements by the company's audit committee. Shares of ClickSoftware began trading on the NASDAQ in 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble. In 2003 ClickSoftware was chosen to optimize the scheduling and street-level routing of Deutsche Telekom's T-Com division's field service engineers. At the Summer Olympics in China in 2008 ClickSoftware was responsible for coordinating the activities of hundreds of telecommunications technicians. In 2013 ClickSoftware successfully integrated it’s software with the native salesforce1 platform making its products available on the salesforce app exchange.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ir.clicksoftware.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=122672&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1842379 )〕 In 2014, ClickSoftware acquired Xora Inc., a cloud-based mobile workforce management company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ir.clicksoftware.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=122672&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1906212 )〕 On April 30, 2015, ClickSoftware announced signing a definitive agreement to be acquired by private funds managed by Francisco Partners Management L.P., a technology-focused private equity firm, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $438 million. With the completion of the transaction, on July 13, 2015, ClickSoftware became a privately held company, and its ordinary shares ceased to trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. The Company continues to operate under the same brand as ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. With the conclusion of the deal, Dr. Moshe BenBassat, ClickSoftware's Founder and CEO, retired from the CEO role, though remained a board member of ClickSoftware and also serves as an active advisor in further advancing its strategic goals and growth objectives. Paul Ilse, an Operating Partner with Francisco Partners, has initially been named as Chief Executive Officer of ClickSoftware.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/clicksoftware-to-be-bought-by-francisco-partners-for-438-million-1430397855 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ClickSoftware Technologies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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