Newminds strengthens growing group of Microsoft partners

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AXELIO has a new addition: Newminds strengthens the growing group of Microsoft partners. Thanks to the expansion with this ERP specialist from Hengelo, this collective of businesses can support customers even better with the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation. Factor Business Acquisitions assisted the owners of Newminds in the sale to AXELIO.

The acquisition is part of the growth ambition of AXELIO and investor 5CS Capital Partners. Together, they are building a group of Microsoft specialists that offers customers the most complete technology platform possible within the Microsoft ecosystem. Newminds is the third Microsoft specialist to join AXELIO's ranks after Pixelzebra, a Microsoft Dynamics CRM specialist, and Xperit, an experienced Microsoft Business Central ERP partner. Newminds consists of an ERP business unit with years of experience in Microsoft Dynamics Business Central and has also developed unique solutions for the agricultural sector under the name AGRIO Software and for Field Service Management under the name SPATIO Software. The other business unit is Newminds Systems a specialist in infrastructure services and management including Azure Cloud services and DevOps applications.

Frank van der Woude, CEO of AXELIO, warmly welcomes Newminds to the AXELIO family. 'We are very happy with this reinforcement. Newminds is a super specialized business. Not only as an ERP vendor within the Microsoft ecosystem, but also as a market leader in a specific market segment, namely the agricultural sector. In this, Newminds serves national and international customers with a uniquely developed add-on to Business Central. A solution for processing field crops such as potatoes, onions and carrots. In addition, Newminds offers a Field Service solution, with SPATIO software, where service engineers are facilitated with a complete and extremely user-friendly solution for optimizing planning where the engineer is fully connected on the road via the service app. All this is supported by Newminds Systems with infrastructure services such as Azure Cloud applications. We believe we can serve our joint customers even better with this acquisition, thanks to close collaboration and deployment of technology that adds value quickly and directly.'

According to Van der Woude, Newminds also fits well within the AXELIO group with its corporate culture. 'We match on the basis of ambition, expertise and entrepreneurship. We find that important. New acquisitions have to fit into our existing group of parties, so that we can work together optimally to achieve the best results for our customers.

Eric Vredeveldt and Geert Rozendom, the management of Newminds, are pleased with the entry and call it a big step forward with an eye to the future. 'As part of the AXELIO Group, we can accelerate our organization towards the next phase of growth. In fact, this cooperation gives us access to additional knowledge and expertise, which we would have had less access to as an independent organization. Our customers benefit from this, just as they benefit from the continuity that the AXELIO Group offers. In addition, the acquisition results in new career opportunities for our employees. We also saw that the visions for the future were similar and therefore the click with AXELIO was immediate. We feel more than welcome in this family.

Newminds retains its company name, identity and autonomy, with management continuing in its current form as well. 'We consider those values very important,' says Van der Woude. 'For the management, but also for the business' employees. They must have the freedom and space to continue to develop themselves. At the same time, they have broader growth prospects now that they are part of our group. They will have much more exposure to new developments and innovations. That makes Newminds even more attractive as an employer. From AXELIO we will actively support Newminds to accelerate the next steps in its development.

With Newminds as a new reinforcement, AXELIO's added value grows for customers pursuing further digitalization. Van der Woude: "The complete range of Microsoft solutions, complemented by our market expertise to deploy these solutions quickly and effectively, offers enormous opportunities for businesses.

The innovative power of Microsoft is thus closer than many entrepreneurs think, Van der Woude argues. 'But then it is essential that they have their IT housekeeping in order. Then these businesses are able to move with the technological developments and remain competitive. We facilitate all that. We take businesses by our hand through the entire digital journey into the future. Step by step and at the pace that suits our customers.'

Guidance Factor

The owners of Newminds were assisted in the entire sales process, from the negotiations to the notarial transfer of the shares, by Factor Business Acquisitions. The services of Factor Bedrijfsoverames included the analysis of the internal organization, providing information to AXELIO, conducting negotiations on behalf of the client, coordinating due diligence processes and contractual negotiations.