Ergo has acquired software licensing specialist Micromail in a deal that Ergo says will make it the strongest Cloud and Licensing Solution Partner in Ireland. Consideration for the deal was not disclosed.
Micromail Ltd booked a net profit of €892,000 in the year to March 2015. Year-end cash amounted to €2,625,000. Year-end debtors were €1.4 million, a 40% increase on the previous year, and total liabilities amounted to €1.9 million. Net worth in March 2015 was €2,153,000.
Cork-based Micromail will continue to trade under its own name. Though primarily a Microsoft house offering volume licensing solutions across all Microsoft’s programme models (Enterprise, MPSA, Service Provider and Campus), Micromail also supports multi-vendor licensing solutions including Adobe, VMware, Kaspersky, AutoDesk, and many others.
John Purdy, CEO of Ergo, commented: "Ergo is now uniquely positioned to offer Irish organisations an end-to-end service around Microsoft products, from design, deployment and licensing to running them as a managed service, speeding up the return on investment cycle. Micromail is a significant addition to our competencies at a time of huge change in the IT industry.”
Willy Kelly, Managing Director of Micromail, said: “With Ergo we will be bigger and better. Our two companies, working as one, will provide customers with the full spectrum of IT services, on premise, in the cloud, or a combination of both.”
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According to Aisling Curtis, Small Mid-Market Solutions and Partner Director for Microsoft Ireland: “In a ‘mobile first, cloud first world’ having a partner that can provide end to end services such as software asset management, licensing consultancy, deployment and activation of Microsoft cloud technologies, whilst providing support will ensure that the return of investment for our customers is realised in full.”
As the Microsoft licensing model evolved to encompass cloud services such as Office 365, Intune and Azure through Managed Services Partners, Ergo was an early mover in Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Partner programme. Purdy explained that offering LSP services is a natural next step in providing a comprehensive Microsoft portfolio.
“With the acquisition of Micromail we see an opportunity to help our customers get the best value out of their software by providing a one-stop service for cloud and on-premise that covers licensing as well as architecting and implementing the solution,” Purdy added.
Micromail was established in 1987 and had 14 staff including two directors in 2014/15. The company had 11 Ordinary shares in issue, with Willy Kelly and Anne Kelly owning four of them. The other shares were owned by Wendy McElligott, Diarmuid Hayes, Cormac Hayes, Stephen Foley, Fionan O’Cinnéide and Sean Deasy.
Photo: John Purdy (right) with Willie Kelly and Aisling Curtis
