Business Document has been acquired by Gfi Informatique
September 2015 — The owner of Business Document has sold the company to Gfi Informatique for an undisclosed consideration.
Founded in 1994, Business Document is a software publisher and the creator of Bdoc Suite, one of the most powerful document management solutions in the world. Bdoc Suite is well known in the IT community for its simplicity, feature-richness and ease of deployment. Bdoc Suite offers an optimized, simplified management system for the production of all types of business documents, from the simplest to the most complex: mailings, bills, loan offers, contracts, monitoring the entire document business processes.
Gfi Informatique is an international IT services group employing 11,000 people at the end of 2014 with recorded revenues of US$1 billion.The group provides its customers with expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and software solutions.
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