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Vista Equity Partners is an American private equity firm focused on software and technology-enabled businesses. The firm was founded in 2000 and has offices in Austin, Texas, Chicago, Illinois, and San Francisco, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/vista-equity-partners )〕 == History == Vista Equity Partners was founded in 2000 by Robert F. Smith. It is a leading private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses.〔http://peracs.com/2015/01/hec-dow-jones-private-equity-performance-rankings-which-firms-generated-best-performance-for-their-investors-over-the-past-years/〕 Vista made investments in BigMachines starting January 2001. Additional investments were made through 2012, until BigMachines was sold to Oracle Corporation in October 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work= Oracle web page )〕 DataCore Software was another early investment in 2001. Vista agreed to acquire SumTotal Systems in May 2009 for about $160 million, which closed in July. Vista also acquired the finance-related software business MicroEdge from Advent Software for $30 million, in July 2009. In June of 2012, Vista acquired Boston-based CRM Software provider focused on the recruitment industry, Bullhorn, Inc. for a reported price of several hundred million dollars. In May 2013 Vista announced it would acquire Websense (public since 2000) for an estimated $906 million. The deal closed June 25 for about $1 billion. In September 2013 a new round of funding and a bid of over $1 billion was announced for Active Network, Inc, which runs event registration web sites. Vista has since acquired Lanyon, Inc., a software company based out of Dallas, Texas, with whom they merged a portion of Active Network's Business Solutions Group (BSG). In September 2014, Vista announced that Microedge will be sold to Blackbaud, Inc. for $160 million in the 4th quarter of 2014. In September 2014, an unnamed source reported that Vista Equity Partners was seeking buyers for its financial software providing firm Misys, or that possibly it was considering an initial public offering; Vista has denied these rumors. Vista Equity Partners revealed in September 2014 that it would acquire Tibco Software for $4.3 billion.〔( Vista Equity to buy Tibco Software for $4.3 billion ). Reuters, 29 September 2014〕 In June 2015, Vista Equity Partners acquired Student Information System assets from Pearson, including PowerSchool, the largest K-12 student information system (SIS), supporting 15 million students in 73 countries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pearson to sell PowerSchool to Vista Equity Partners )〕 In June 2015, Vista Equity Partners acquired Mediaocean, a software provider for the advertising industry. 〔 http://www.wsj.com/articles/mediaocean-to-sell-stake-to-vista-equity-partners-1435541664〕 In September 2015, the company announced an agreement to acquire Solera Holdings for approximately $6.5 billion. 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「Vista Equity Partners」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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