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Type
  
Public (NYSE: SLH)

Name
  
Solera Holdings

Slogan
  
through life


Number of employees
  
3,600

Industry
  
Software

Founded
  
2005

Solera Holdings

Key people
  
Tony Aquila, Founder, Chairman & CEO

Revenue
  
$987.26 Million USD (2014)

Role
  
Software company ยท solerainc.com

Stock price
  
SLH (NYSE) US$ 54.43 -0.07 (-0.13%)8 Dec, 4:14 PM GMT-5 - Disclaimer

Headquarters
  
Westlake, Texas, United States

Subsidiaries
  
Solera, HPI Ltd, Audatex North America, Inc

Profiles

Working at Solera Holdings - May 2018


Solera Holdings is an American company based in Texas which provides risk management and asset protection software and services to the automotive industry and property insurance marketplace. Solera also provides digital identity management services, as well as re-underwriting and data analytics solutions for the property and casualty insurance industries. Solera is active in 78 countries across six continents.

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Solera became part of the S&P 400 after an Initial public offering in May 2007. In March 2016, however, Solera was bought out by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, once more becoming a private entity.

Companies owned by Solera include ABZ, APU, Audatex, Colimbra, AUTOonline, AudaExplore, CAP, DST, Digidentity, Explore Data, Hollander, HPI, Identifix, Informex, Inpart, LYNX Services, Market Scan, sachcontrol, and Sidexa.

Q4 2015 solera holdings inc earnings conference call


Company history

Solera was founded in January 2005 by American businessman Tony Aquila.

In February 2006, private equity firm GTCR announced a partnership with Aquila involving investments of up to $100 million of equity capital.

In April 2006, Solera and private equity firm GTCR announced the completion of their acquisition of the Claims Services Group of Automatic Data Processing (NYSE: ADP) for $975 million in cash. In the deal, Solera acquired operating companies that employ over 2,000 associates in 31 countries and generate over $410 million in annual revenue from more than 50,000 global customers.

In May 2007, Solera completed an IPO, trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SLH".

In September 2015, Solera announced an agreement to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners, Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries and other affiliated investors for approximately $6.5 billion. The transaction was completed in March 2016.

In July 2016, Solera announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Enservio, Inc, a Massachusetts-based company that provides software and services to the property contents insurance marketplace.

Timeline of Acquisitions

  • 2006: Acquisition of ADP including: Audatex, Informex, Sidexa, ABZ, and Hollander
  • 2008: Acquisition of Inpart, UCS, and HPI
  • 2009: Acquisition of AUTOonline
  • 2010: Acquisitions of Digidentity and Market Scan
  • 2011: Acquisitions of Explore Information Services, Sinexia, See Progress, Commerce Delta, and New Era
  • 2012: Acquisitions of CarweB, Actual Systems, APU and LMI
  • 2013: Acquisition of DST and formation of joint venture with SRS
  • 2014: Acquisitions of I&S, CAP and Sherwood
  • 2015: Acquisitions of Service Dynamics, IBS Automotive and DMEautomotive
  • 2016: Acquisition of Enservio, and Autodata
  • 2017: Acquisition of Digidentity, and Colimbra
  • References

    Solera Holdings Wikipedia