By: Ethan Smith

Plex Online

- Software as a Service (Saas) / Cloud App

- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

- ERP plus MES, QMS, CRM, SCMS

Finances- Apax Partners acquired majority in 2006

- Acquired by Francisco Partners in 2012

- $30M investment from Accel Partners

- 30.5% revenue increase in Q1 2012

History

1989: MSP Industries Corporation

1995: Plexus Systems founded

2001: Began offering SaaS

History

2006: Apax Partners acquire majority

2009: Plex Systems, Plex Online

2012: Francisco Partners acquisition

What’s hot

- Manufacturing cloud

- Record financial growth

- Expansion

Secret Sauce

- Being Purely Cloud Based

- Shop Floor Model

- Continuous Innovation

Pinball Arcade

- Office has pinball arcade and pinball wizard- Founding member of Detroit Pinball League

Competition

- Oracle / SAP AG

- NetSuite

- Plex is only pure cloud company

Prediction?

- Success!

- Happy customers / employees

- IPO?