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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Andersson Spearheads ReadSoft Acquition Strategy

Since ReadSoft co-founder Jan Andersson stepped down as CEO in 2011 and joined its board of directors, one of his charters has been to guide the Swedish-based capture ISV's acquisition strategy.  Last year, we saw that strategy manifest itself in the acquisition of foxray, a German high-volume document capture specialist. Last week I was in New Orleans for a briefing on how ReadSoft is integrating the foxray capture framework into its business strategy.

foxray is a capture platform that kind of reminds me of a newer version of the InputAccel platform. It's designed to manage multiple capture workflows and can utilize best of breed components. Historically, it's integrated a lot of Kofax technology for example, but now that foxray is owned by ReadSoft, ReadSoft's capture platform will certainly be the first, but not only, option. foxray's Xbound platform also has cool features like the ability to re-use components across multiple workflows (which eases set-up) and the option to use a single verifier for multiple data capture processes. It also provides an end-to-end view of all a user's multi-channel capture processes.

foxray's Xbound system has historically been sold primarily in Germany, but ReadSoft has plans to bring it to North America targeting markets like service bureaus, healthcare, and financial services.

Last week, ReadSoft announced another acquisition that Andersson helped put together. That was of e-invoicing network provider Expert Systems. Based in Sweden, Expert Systems' hosted application is complementary to ReadSoft's thriving software business in extracting invoice information from paper. ReadSoft recently launched a new cloud version of its invoice capture software as well.

According to Bob Fresneda, president of ReadSoft North America, Expert Systems was doing between $1.5 million and $2 million in annual sales -all of which is counted as recurring revenue due to its subscription-based model. ReadSoft paid $6 million for the business.

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