Supported by Main Capital Partners, the partnership marks SDB’s entry into the German market and represents the company’s second step in its international expansion strategy following last year’s acquisition of Nordics-based Alfa eCare.
By bringing together complementary solutions within an integrated best-of-suite platform, SDB and buchner aim to deliver enhanced value to healthcare providers in the DACH region and further increase satisfaction across its customer bases.
SDB is a Dutch provider of software for healthcare and childcare organizations, serving segments including elderly care, disability care, mental health, rehabilitation, youth care, childcare, and independent treatment centers across the Netherlands and the Nordics. SDB’s offering combines core electronic medical and health record solutions (EMR/EHR) with a wide suite of secondary (AI-enabled) applications such as workforce planning, HR, payroll, learning, digital health, and analytics. Main has been a strategic partner to SDB since 2018.
buchner is a German provider of software solutions for healthcare professionals, with a strong footprint in therapeutic and ambulatory care, serving a customer base of over 8,000 healthcare institutions. buchner helps therapists in digitizing key processes in their practice management. buchner’s software solutions thereby help improve efficiency and decrease the complexity of managing therapists’ day-to-day operations. Key functionalities include patient and prescription management, invoicing, BI, calendar and workforce management.
The combination of SDB and buchner brings together two highly complementary platforms, creating a prominent player in the Dutch, Nordic and German healthcare and childcare markets. By combining their product portfolios, both companies will unlock significant cross-sell opportunities and further enhance their integrated offering. For SDB, the transaction represents a key milestone in its international growth strategy. Following the acquisition of Alfa eCare in the Nordics, buchner marks SDB’s second international acquisition and its entry into the German healthcare software market.
With the acquisition of buchner, we achieve a new milestone in SDB’s pan-European growth ambitions: entering the German healthcare market."
Sjoerd Aarts, Managing Partner at Main and Supervisory Board member at SDB: ”With the acquisition of buchner, we achieve a new milestone in SDB’s pan-European growth ambitions: entering the German healthcare market. We see strong opportunities for SDB to further expand its presence across German healthcare and childcare software segments with its differentiated suite of best-of-breed solutions. We look forward to supporting the combined group to further build its position as an innovative healthcare solutions provider across Western-European care and cure markets.”
Vincent van Staalduinen, COO of SDB Groep: ”This partnership with buchner marks another major milestone in our strategy towards establishing the most innovative software supplier to healthcare and childcare institutions across Western-Europe. This acquisition will allow us to accelerate our strategic roadmap to expand into the German healthcare market.”
Ralf Buchner, CEO of buchner: “We are excited to be joining SDB as we continue our already 35-year journey as an innovative software provider to therapists across Germany. By joining SDB, we will establish additional size and scale, enabling further growth of our business in Germany and expanding further into the DACH-region.”
SDB Groep is a SaaS Software and Services company that develops innovative, user-friendly and fully integrated (AI-enabled) software solutions for healthcare and childcare. This is achieved by putting the customer and the employee at the center of the development of software designed to optimize work processes and minimize administrative burdens. Thanks to this approach, SDB Groep brings joy and effectiveness back to the professionals, giving them more time to do what they love: providing the best care. SDB is headquartered in the Netherlands with a dedicated team of c. 400 healthcare software professionals across the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.
buchner & Partner GmbH was founded in 1991 as a pure form mailing service for therapeutic practices by Ralf buchner in Kiel, Germany. buchner serves over 45,000 customers, which are comprised of healthcare therapists, physiotherapy-, ergotherapy-, logopedic practices and other cure providers. buchner’s software includes practice management functionalities like invoicing, patient documentation, calendars, and workforce management.
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