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Exact is a Dutch software company that offers accounting, ERP, and other software for small and medium enterprises. Exact develops cloud-based and on-premises software for industries such as accountancy, wholesale distribution, professional services and manufacturing, serving more than 100,000 companies. Exact, founded in 1984, has its headquarters in Delft. It has subsidiaries and offices in Europe, North America and Asia. The company was listed on Euronext until March 2015, when it was bought up by a group of investors led by Apax. ==History== Exact was founded in 1984 by Eduard Hagens, Rinus Dekker, Arco van Nieuwland, Paul van Keep, Paul Fijling and Leo Schonk. The six had worked as freelancers for Grote Beer ("Ursa Major"), one of the first Dutch companies to produce standardized accounting software. When Grote Beer fired all of its freelancers, Hagens ''et al.'' started their own business.〔 Their Exact Software would later, in 1994, acquire Grote Beer, which at that time had an annual revenue of ƒ100 million, expanding Exact's customer portfolio to some 60,000 companies.〔 The former company's name was used as a trade mark until 2000. Internationally, Exact grew by acquiring Belgian firms Cobul and Cubic (17,000 customers) in 1989.〔 The opening of offices in the United Kingdom and Russia meant that, as of 1995, 20% of Exact's revenue came from abroad. Expansion into the German market soon followed with the acquisition of Pcas, Bavaria Soft, Szymaniak (1997) and finally Soft Research (1999), German market leader in salary software. In the 2000s, Exact acquired US manufacturing ERP software providers Macola (see below), JobBOSS and MAX. In 2007, Exact purchased Longview Holdings for US $51.5 million. The mid-2000s saw Exact embroiled in internal power struggles. In 2004, founder Eduard Hagens returned from ten months of sailing round the world, to find his company reorganized in a decentralized way that didn't suit his vision of how Exact should be led. Hagens clashed with CEO Lucas Brentjes and CFO Bert Groenewegen, leading to the resignation in September and October of that year of Brentjes, Groenewegen, and subsequently the company's entire board of directors. Hagens's "''coup''" (as ''de Volkskrant'' put it) caused a staff drain within the company. The following April, after the resignation of the company's new CFO, Hagens announced his own departure. He was succeeded by Rajesh Patel. In October 2014, Exact announced a buy-out by Apax Partners. That acquisition was completed in April, 2015 for a sum of €730 million. The acquisition meant that Exact was de-listed from the Euronext stock exchange, on which it had been listed since 1999. 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「Exact (software company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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