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March 31 2025, Munich – enventa Group, a business software provider of ERP, BI, treasury management, and bookkeeping solutions, announces the acquisition of Softbauware Group, consisting of Softbauware GmbH and GESYS GmbH & Co. KG. The acquisition marks an important step in enventa Group’s mission to create an integrated suite of business software, offering their customers an even more comprehensive set of solutions. The group expands its footprint within the industry-specific construction trade sector, thereby taking an important step in further establishing itself as a wholistic ERP vendor for industry-specific verticals in the German-speaking SME market.
Founded in 1993 in Langen, Germany, Softbauware specializes in industry-specific ERP solutions tailored to the concrete, building materials, brick, and prefabricated construction sectors. Softbauware’s reach sits adjacent to enventa’s existing vertical focus, making this acquisition a logical next step in enventa’s buy-and-build strategy within the core ERP market.
With the addition of Softbauware, enventa Group significantly expands its vertical focus, thereby providing a beneficial extension of its reach while offering strong cross- and up-sell potential. With its sticky and loyal customer base, Softbauware has developed itself as a market-leading player in its respective verticals over the years. Furthermore, the company has proven to continuously expand its vertical coverage over the past years, with brick manufacturing and prefabricated building industries as examples. The combined group of Softbauware and enventa currently generates more than EUR 40m in annual revenue.
Their industry-specific expertise makes them the ideal partner for the enventa Group,"
Stéphanie Kliner, Co-CEO of enventa Group, comments: “The goal of our organization is to be a wholistic vendor of a comprehensive set of digital solutions. Through our vertical focus we can provide immense benefits to our customers. We are pleased to further expand our vertical reach through the combination with Softbauware and are excited about the steps that lie ahead of us as a combined group.”
Andreas Hougardy, Founder & CEO of Softbauware, mentions: “Softbauware adds important qualities to enventa’s vertical specific ERP offering. We are excited for the steps that lie ahead]”
Sven van Berge Henegouwen, Managing Partner at Main Capital Partners, concludes: “We are excited to welcome Softbauware as part of the enventa Group. Their industry-specific expertise makes them the ideal partner for the enventa Group, and we are thrilled to unlock the benefits of this combination. We are confident that our growth initiatives will continue to improve the group’s value proposition towards existing and new customers.”
Softbauware provides industry-specific ERP solutions tailored for the concrete, building materials, brick, and prefabricated construction sectors. The company offers a complete ERP solution with CRM, DMS and BI functionalities for more than 200 customers. Softbauware is founded in 1993 in Langen, Germany. Some notable customers of the group include Syspro, Baufritz, Heidelberg Materials, and Kortmann Beton.
enventa Group supports medium-sized companies and larger corporations in generating added value from their valuable data and automating and streamlining business processes. The group is a consolidation of six software companies including, Nissen & Velten (ERP), texdata (ERP), aruba BI (BI), Litreca (financial solutions), syska (Bookkeeping solutions) and ERP Novum (ERP). The comprehensive business software group offers a single-source solution to more than 4,000 clients in 10 locations within the German SME market. The company currently employs more than 250 employees and maintains more than 40 partner companies.
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