Comments on: Significant Acquisition in the AMS Space https://effectivedatabase.com/significant-acquisition-in-the-ams-space/ Making data management a revenue generator Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Wes Trochlil https://effectivedatabase.com/significant-acquisition-in-the-ams-space/#comment-1339 Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:48:18 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/?p=4406#comment-1339 In reply to Tim.

Tim, totally agree with everything you’ve written. The next 12-18 months will be very telling in terms of what happens to Avectra’s two product lines.

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By: Tim https://effectivedatabase.com/significant-acquisition-in-the-ams-space/#comment-1338 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:06:40 +0000 http://effectivedatabase.com/?p=4406#comment-1338 Abila is now one of the leaders.

Something to think about: Last year Convio was purchased by Blackbaud and Blackbaud decided to sunset Common Ground (product from Convio). Common Ground users were sent a message that small to mid-sized orgs would be asked to migrate to eTapestry and/or Raisers Edge while their enterprise customers would need to migrate to their Luminate Suite or Blackbaud CRM. Blackbaud’s reasoning was to streamline their “product portfolio and organization.” In reality it would have been tough or near impossible to manage all their different offerings and it was probably the right thing to do.

As for Abila they too have several different product offerings. It will be interesting to see what happens to Avectra’s two AMS offerings (Enterprise / Pro) and if they decide to follow behind Blackbaud’s strategy of streamlining their product portfolio. I don’t think initially Enterprise or Pro are in jeopardy at this time, however, if Abila decides to purchase other AMS companies (they seem to have the financial backing to make it happen) the same way gomembers.com made acquisitions in the late 90’s early 00’s, it could happen.

I believe we will see more acquisitions in this space over the next year.

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