In the new world of cloud-based software, technology providers have tended to fall into one of two camps: young companies founded and reared on the SaaS premise, and more mature vendors whose tentative trips into on-demand are fraught with unease.
TAKE Supply Chain, a supplier relationship technology vendor, now adds a third: the wholehearted convert. “We are converting the entire company from on-premise, perpetual model software systems to SaaS systems,” declared Warren Sumner, COO and general manager of the company, in a recent interview with Managing Automation.
TAKE Supply Chain, once known as ClearOrbit, moved definitively in that direction late last summer with its acquisition of EntComm’s product division. EntComm offers some of the same supply-demand balancing functionality that TAKE does, and even adds such capabilities as monitoring vendor-managed inventory. But the true impetus for the deal was EntComm’s software platform.
“We acquired them to help us really launch into our SaaS initiative,” Sumner explained.