Syncsort acquires Trillium Software

Syncsort Inc. announced Wednesday it has signed an agreement with Harte Hanks Inc. to acquire Trillium Software, a provider of data quality solutions.The acquisition of Trillium is the largest in Syncsort’s history, it said. Financial terms were not disclosed.

“With most large enterprises making significant investments in Big Data for business and operational analytics, core data integration and data quality workloads are moving into Hadoop at a rapid pace,” Josh Rogers, CEO, Syncsort, said in a prepared statement. “As a pioneer in bringing high-performance data integration software to the Hadoop ecosystem, Syncsort sees an opportunity to extend our unique value with Trillium’s proven, best-of-breed data quality products. Together, we are a clear leader in the data integration and data quality market, and the logical choice for large enterprises seeking to chart a path to Hadoop. We look forward to working closely with Trillium’s customers and investing in the great products they have come to rely on.”

Woodcliff Lake-based Syncsort is a Big Iron and Big Data solutions provider and backed by Clearlake Capital Group L.P.

“Syncsort has long been a recognized leader in data integration software, and we are excited to partner with Josh and the management team to expand Syncsort’s product portfolio to include data quality,” Behdad Eghbali and Prashant Mehrotra of Clearlake said in a combined statement. “Combining Syncsort and Trillium creates a leading data integration and data quality software provider of significant scale and further establishes the Company as a platform for accelerated organic and acquisition-based growth. With this acquisition, Syncsort continues to be well-positioned to address the significant market trends around Big Data and to support the needs of our customers.”

Credit Suisse, Antares Capital and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey provided financing for the transaction. Foros served as the financial advisor to Harte Hanks. Credit Suisse, Evercore and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey served as financial advisors to Syncsort.