UNICOM Systems, Inc. acquires DETEC Software GmbH from Beta Systems Software AG

Mission Hills, California and Berlin, Germany, July 13, 2012 – UNICOM Systems, Inc. (“UNICOM”), a global information technology company and part of the UNICOM group of companies, and Beta Systems Software AG (“BSS”), today announced that they have successfully completed a Share Purchase and Assignment Agreement whereby UNICOM shall acquire all shares in DETEC Software GmbH (“DETEC”), a wholly-owned limited liability company of BSS.  Subject to authorities’ approvals, the acquisition will close and be effective July 31, 2012.

BSS’ CEO, Jürgen Herbott stated, “The sale of DETEC will allow Beta Systems to continue to focus on our core competencies in the light of our restructuring process and continuous strategic realignment.” Mr. Herbott continued, “We are impressed with UNICOM’s leadership, technology and ability to consummate such a global deal without delay.”

As a result of the acquisition, DETEC will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of UNICOM, a privately-held California-based company, and the most recent addition to the UNICOM group.  

UNICOM’s Founder, President & CEO, Corry Hong stated, “I am very impressed with DETEC’s advanced and highly scalable document composition technology, especially, DoXite and LaserSoft products which automate the production, distribution and digitalization of document workflows in high performance customer and business environments. Together with UNICOM’s Columbus DMS suite, we are able to capture, manage, archive analytics processes and extract tangible value from the vast amounts of unstructured source data from diverse applications.” Mr. Hong continued, “Over 2.5 Quintrillion bytes of data are created daily, and it is predicted that the amount of traffic flowing over the internet will reach 667 exabytes annually by 2013.  The addition of DETEC enables UNICOM to present enterprise-wide IT solutions including Application Modernization, Mobility, Cyber Security, Smart Computing, Big Data Analytics, Big Data Storage, Apache Hadoop Framework, Social Media Solutions, Hardware Appliances, Cloud Computing, Digital Imaging, Document Management, ITIL ITSM deployments, the Power 7 and zEnterprise.”

UNICOM believes that the product solutions and technical services and offerings of DETEC perfectly complement UNICOM’s Macro 4 Document Management Suite of Columbus software and further strengthens UNICOM’s commitment to the German and European IT market. 

From left, Mr. Gernot Sagl, Board (CFO), Beta Systems Software AG, Mr Jürgen Herbott, CEO, Beta Systems Software AG, and Mr. Corry Hong, Founder, President and CEO, UNICOM Systems, Inc.