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EMS Software, LLC (formerly Dean Evans & Associates), the maker of EMS software, is a Colorado-based company that develops software for a wide variety of tasks, including meeting and Event scheduling, Resource management, academic scheduling, shared workspace management (i.e. office hoteling), web-based calendaring, online registration and survey creation. Dean Evans, a business consultant and software engineer, founded the company in 1986.
DEA currently has more than 2.5 million users, works with 4,000-plus facilities and manages millions of meetings and events around the globe each year. The company serves a wide variety of industries, providing software specifically designed for higher education, school districts, law firms, governmental entities, cultural centers, churches, health care establishments, corporations and non profits.
In 2008, Software Magazine included DEA in its “Software 500” list of the world’s largest software and technology service providers. The same year, Deliotte ranked DEA as the No. 24 company in its Technology Fast 50 Program for Colorado. INC. 5000 named the company in its list of the 5,000 fastest-growing, private companies in the country in 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2011, The Denver Business Journal named DEA among the top five Denver-area software developers.
Software giant Oracle Corporation made DEA a Gold Level Partner in 2010, with the shared goal of integrating EMS with Oracle’s popular PeopleSoft software.
In 2012, Dean Evans & Associates, Inc. was named Customer Service Department of the Year in the Computer Software category by the American Business Stevie Awards. The company was also named to the Inc. (magazine) 500|5000 and the Software Magazine software 500 list.
In April, 2014, Dean Evans & Associates announced that it received a strategic growth investment from JMI Equity, a growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software and technology-enabled services companies. In July, 2015, Dean Evans & Associates acquired EmergingSoft for its technology integration with Microsoft® Outlook. On January 4, 2016, Dean Evans & Associates formally changed the company name to EMS Software, LLC.