Overview

Founded in 2000 by Daniel von Stockar and Patrick Winter († 2018), SoftwareONE is a leading global provider of software and cloud technology solutions with capabilities across the entire value chain, helping around 65,000 business customers design and implement their technology strategy, buy the right software and cloud solutions at the right price, and manage and optimize their software and cloud estates.

With around 5,800 employees, SoftwareONE has one of the broadest global footprints in its industry with local sales capabilities in 90 countries, supported by six regional and three global service delivery centers. SoftwareONE’s operating model is built to deliver profitable growth at scale while ensuring customer proximity, with the ability to transact in more than 150 countries, and centrally provide 24/7 customer service in 13 languages.

SoftwareONE’s integrated suite of solutions is organized into two business lines: Software & Cloud and Solutions & Services, which for the first half of 2020 accounted for around 75% and 25%, respectively, of gross profit for the combined group including Comparex.

• Software & Cloud: SoftwareONE offers its customers access to a comprehensive software and cloud portfolio, drawing on its relationships with more than 7,500 publishers and its purchasing expertise. The company’s software catalog includes leading global software publishers such as Microsoft, Adobe, Citrix, Oracle, Red Hat, VMware, Sophos, Symantec, Veeam, best performing hyper-scalers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, and a growing portfolio of disruptive publishers.
• Solutions & Services: SoftwareONE offers software lifecycle management and technology services. Capabilities include consulting, integration and vendor-specific professional services, and managed services to monitor and control software and cloud spend. The technology services portfolio is designed to optimize customer infrastructure environments and spend, and includes cloud migration, security, and unified communications and collaboration services.

SoftwareONE: an integrated platform with an end-to-end value proposition

SoftwareONE’s offerings are connected by PyraCloud, its proprietary digital hub, which allows customers to efficiently transact, manage and optimize their software and cloud estate from a single platform offering data-driven, actionable intelligence.

The full SoftwareONE story, including history and milestones, the industry environment of SoftwareONE, the business model, strategy, the Vision 2022 and information on corporate social responsibility can be found under the following link: