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Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Amtech Software secures strategic investment from VEP
Amtech Software, an enterprise software solutions provider for the packaging industry, has received strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners (VEP), a global technology investor. This investment is aimed at bolstering the company's innovation within the packaging industry. It will facilitate advancements in Amtech's enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution systems (MES), and automation solutions. This aligns with the company's goal to digitally transform operations in the global packaging sector. Amtech Software CEO Chuck Schneider said: 'Amtech is on a mission to modernize the packaging industry through software innovation, automation, and connected workflows. 'With Vista's partnership and deep experience in scaling software businesses, we'll be able to advance our product roadmap, invest in our people and new innovative solutions and deliver even greater impact to our customers.' Amtech's software platform is designed to assist packaging manufacturers in automating essential operations. These include order entry, production planning, inventory management, and real-time performance analytics. Targeted specifically at the corrugated, folding carton, flexible packaging, and label markets, Amtech's platform is claimed to enhance plant-wide efficiency. It also aims to reduce waste and improve operational visibility for manufacturers. With the backing of VEP, the company plans to accelerate improvements to its cloud-based platform. The investment will also support deeper integration between its ERP and MES systems, alongside leveraging AI and machine learning capabilities. Vista Foundation Fund co-head and senior managing director Patrick Severson said: 'Amtech delivers mission-critical software that supports every stage of the packaging production lifecycle, empowering manufacturers to operate with precision, speed and scale. 'As the industry faces rising complexity and increasing customer expectations, we believe Amtech is uniquely positioned to help manufacturers work smarter and adapt faster. 'We're excited to partner with the Amtech team to accelerate growth, product innovation and impact for customers worldwide.' In April 2024, Amtech closed the acquisition of Label Traxx, a software provider for the label printing and flexible packaging segments. "Amtech Software secures strategic investment from VEP" was originally created and published by Packaging Gateway, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
National Post
16-06-2025
- Business
- National Post
Amtech Software Announces Strategic Growth Investment from Vista Equity Partners
Article content FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. — Amtech Software, a leading provider of enterprise software for the packaging industry, today announced a strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners ('Vista'), a global technology investor that specializes in enterprise software. The investment will support Amtech's continued innovation across its suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution systems (MES) and automation solutions and accelerate its mission to digitally transform the global packaging industry. Article content Amtech's integrated software platform enables packaging manufacturers to manage and automate mission-critical operations—from order entry and production planning to inventory management, equipment maintenance, and real-time performance analytics. Purpose-built for packaging manufacturers in the corrugated, folding carton, flexible packaging and label markets, Amtech's software platform helps drive plant-wide efficiency, reduce waste and improve visibility across the entire operation. Today, Amtech supports more than 600 customers worldwide, powering the systems behind billions of boxes and labels produced each year. 'Amtech is on a mission to modernize the packaging industry through software innovation, automation, and connected workflows,' said Chuck Schneider, CEO of Amtech Software. 'With Vista's partnership and deep experience in scaling software businesses, we'll be able to advance our product roadmap, invest in our people and new innovative solutions and deliver even greater impact to our customers.' Article content With Vista's support, Amtech can accelerate enhancements to its cloud-based platform, deepen integration between its ERP and MES, and leverage AI and machine learning to help packaging manufacturers unlock new levels of agility and productivity. Article content 'Amtech delivers mission-critical software that supports every stage of the packaging production lifecycle, empowering manufacturers to operate with precision, speed and scale,' said Patrick Severson, Co-Head of Vista's Foundation Fund and Senior Managing Director. 'As the industry faces rising complexity and increasing customer expectations, we believe Amtech is uniquely positioned to help manufacturers work smarter and adapt faster. We're excited to partner with the Amtech team to accelerate growth, product innovation and impact for customers worldwide.' Article content Vista's investment comes from its Foundation strategy, the firm's middle-market strategy that focuses on investing in emerging software leaders and scaling them into durable software franchises. Launched in 2009, Vista's Foundation strategy utilizes a systematic approach to value creation individually tailored to each of its portfolio companies designed to drive operational excellence and catalyze their next phase of growth. Article content 'Amtech combines deep industry expertise with strong customer relationships and a clear perspective on the future of packaging technology,' said Jake Hodgman, Managing Director at Vista Equity Partners. 'We share their commitment to modernizing operations for manufacturers and are thrilled to support them in this next chapter of growth.' Article content Preston Thomas, Managing Director at Peak Rock Capital said, 'As investors focused on partnering with family and founder led business, we are very pleased to have supported Amtech over the last several years, during which time we helped grow the business and position it for sustained and long-term growth. As a leading global software investor, we are confident that Vista will be a strong partner to Amtech moving forward, and we are proud to helped them reach this important milestone.' Article content Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel for Vista and William Blair served as financial advisor to Vista. Article content About Amtech Software Article content Amtech Software is a leading provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution systems (MES), and automation software built specifically for the packaging industry. Amtech serves corrugated, folding carton, and label converters with integrated solutions that streamline operations, improve efficiency, and enable digital transformation across the plant floor and beyond. Learn more at About Vista Equity Partners Vista is a global technology investor that specializes in enterprise software. Vista's private market strategies seek to deliver differentiated returns through a proprietary and systematic approach to value creation developed and refined over the course of 25 years and 600+ transactions. Today, Vista manages a diversified portfolio of software companies that provide mission-critical solutions to millions of customers around the world. As of December 31, 2024, Vista had more than $100 billion in assets under management. Further information is available at Follow Vista on LinkedIn, @ Vista Equity Partners, and on X, @ Vista_Equity. Article content About Peak Rock Capital Article content Peak Rock Capital is a leading middle-market private investment firm that makes equity and debt investments in companies in North America and Europe. Peak Rock's equity investment platform focuses on opportunities where it can support senior management to drive rapid growth and performance improvement, with expertise in corporate carve-outs and partnering with families and founders seeking first-time institutional capital. Peak Rock's credit platform invests across capital structures, with a broad mandate to provide flexible, tailored capital solutions to middle-market and growth-oriented businesses. Peak Rock's real estate platform makes equity and debt investments in small to mid-sized real estate assets in attractive, growing geographies. For further information about Peak Rock Capital, please visit Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Media Contacts: Article content For Amtech Mark Sekula Director of Marketing msekula@ (267) 968-2047 Article content For Vista Equity Partners Brian Steel media@ (212) 804-9170 Article content Article content Article content
Associated Press
27-01-2025
- Health
- Associated Press
5 Things You Need To Be Automating in 2025
Improving productivity in healthcare brings many well-understood benefits, not least financial. Conservative estimates suggest that if the healthcare delivery industry targeted labor productivity gains rather than workforce expansion to meet demand growth, healthcare spending in 2028 could be $280 billion to $550 billion less than projected. But what do we mean by productivity? It's important to note it's about working smarter, not harder. Technology and automation have vital roles to play in achieving this. By using technology to automate routine activities and streamline repetitive tasks, we can give staff more time to achieve more value-added tasks. In doing so, we improve productivity and enhance patient care and patient outcomes. It's why the National Health Service in England has a focus on embracing 21st century technology to improve productivity as part of its drive to see productivity improvements towards 2% a year by 2029/30. It notes the value of investing in IT systems that work well for staff, highlighting benefits that include 'less time spent chasing patient data, or waiting for their technology to work.' In our latest healthcare webinar, Dave Hester, Technical Consultant at Keysight Eggplant, and Chuck Schneider, CEO of healthcare automation company Redpoint Summit, looked at five places where automation can bring productivity gains in the healthcare sector right now. You can check out the webinar 5 Things You Need to be Automating in 2025 – or read on for more insights. Side-by-Side Testing There's a trend in healthcare away from cloud-based electronic medical record (EMR) systems to local client installations. While there are undoubtedly benefits to this approach, it does raises issues around how testing requirements change. Simply put: how can an organization simultaneously test a locally installed EMR and a Citrix- or Horizon-based system without doubling their testing resource or the time it takes to test? The answer lies in using automation to test side-by-side. Keysight Eggplant uses a model-based approach that enables you to test across any device or operating system. It means you can write a test for a local installation and then use it to test the cloud-based system too. It gives you the coverage you need without increasing the resource or time needed. It also gives you the tool to pick up the smallest change in the user interface and take immediate action, enhancing the user experience. Want to learn more? Find out how Dave Hester used Keysight Eggplant to automate the update and management of the Epic Electronic Health Record at UNC Health Care in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. High-Volume, Multi-Step, Repeatable Processes Any high-volume, high-frequency, and labor-intensive activity that features repeatable processes is a candidate for automation. A perfect example is staff onboarding. It involves multiple steps across multiple systems with multiple hand-offs. Manually, it's prone to errors and delays. When automated, all these problems are removed. There are other candidates too. For example, the student information management system at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust involved a complex manual process of scheduling patient activity alongside student activity. Using Keysight Eggplant, the trust can automatically work across the student information management system, a timetabling system, and its electronic patient records, mapping different activity types to plan the best time for activities to happen. Read the full case study. At Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Keysight Eggplant is being used to automate activities, including population of training domains, appointment scheduling and adding patient observations. The reliability, predictability, and consistency of automation with Keysight Eggplant helps the trust to increase testing capacity and save significant time. Read the full case study. Testing at Scale Validating data such as charge amounts, laboratory reference ranges, and order routing is essential for data integrity. But testing every single transaction isn't an option using manual testing because of the scale of the resource or the length of time that would be needed. One solution is to test sample sets. However, these don't provide the full picture, leaving you exposed to risk. Plus, even sample sets will likely involve hundreds of repetitive testing tasks. This results in dissatisfied analysts, a decreasing attention span, and the increased risk of errors. Automating this large-scale testing gives you the ability to achieve complete coverage without increasing the time or resource needed or reducing accuracy levels. It can also be run out-of-hours, so analysts can focus on implementing the fixes during working hours, boosting employee engagement and enhancing productivity. Want to learn more? Antwerp University Hospital uses Keysight Eggplant to repeatedly test 1,700 medications overnight. It saves invaluable time and resources, freeing up the team to focus on other crucial tasks. Read the case study. Areas Where Previous Audits Found Issues Audits provide a vital opportunity to get an insight into how effectively your systems and processes are running. Failure points can open up opportunities to consider where automation could boost compliance. For example, one organization had an issue with expiring licenses and credentials. To solve the issue, it implemented an automation that looked at license expiration dates and sent a timely automated email to staff to remind them to renew before they became non-compliant. Automation can also be used to look across multiple systems and pull together reports and dashboards. Leaders get the insights they need when they need it without tying up vital resource to pull the data together. The process boosts visibility and enhances productivity. Security Testing the Internet of Medical Things The internet of medical things (IoMT) has provided a huge technological advance. It also opens up significant security vulnerabilities. Not all IoMT devices use end-to-end encryption, so patient health information could be intercepted. Malicious activity – or simple radio frequency interference – can cause an interruption between the device and the recording system. Malicious actors can also inject false readings such as an incorrect heart rate or rhythm into the data stream. The solution is a combined software and hardware solution that can test signal vulnerabilities and verify results between the user interface of the device and the external recording system. Want to learn more? Watch our webinar, 5 Things You Need to Be Automating in 2025, for actionable insights and expert guidance. Learn how automation can transform your workflows, improve outcomes, and future-proof your operations. Bringing the Value of Healthcare Automation to Your Hospital As we've seen here, automation helps drive productivity. It also enhances precision, scalability, and security. Explore the benefits that intelligent software testing brings. Or, to discuss the role software test automation can play in helping your organization achieve its productivity targets, reach out today.
