FOG Software Group has a long history improving customer experience using the best practices we’ve learned from acquiring hundreds of businesses over the last 25 years, and our plan is to do the same here. Volo built its reputation on helping medium-to-large multichannel sellers to scale their businesses. We’ve aggregated that feedback and we’re working actively to resolve issues and make changes that we think will meaningfully improve their experience. They’ve also been kind enough to give us lots of direct feedback on everything we do, from developing product to supporting and communicating with customers to working with partners. This is what attracted me to the business. In the two months since the acquisition we’ve taken the opportunity to meet a good number of our customers.Ĭustomers and agencies on the platform told us about the broad and deep feature set of the Volo Origin platform, its robustness to comfortably manage complex businesses with very large order volumes and colossal SKU counts, and its powerful reporting and analytics. “Our first priority has been to re-connect fully with our customers. We’re looking forward to following the next chapter for Volo under Sandy’s leadership and their new product development strategy coming soon. Each solution has it’s unique advantages and Volo has been much loved by many over the years. It’s great to see Volo repositioning itself as an alternative to the other players in the multichannel world – whilst they may not welcome the competition, the stronger all players are the more they challenge each other and continue to innovate. There are of course any number of multichannel solutions available to choose today, but where Volo has always been strong is it’s ability to handle vast numbers of SKUs and strong capability to handle incoming and outgoing product feeds. Since the acquisition, Sandy has been travelling the UK meeting existing customers to discover what they love about the platform and what direction it should take in the future. Chris was the founder of Volo Commerce (back when it was known as eSellerPro) and his enthusiasm for the solution will see him provide the vision for the future of the platform as well as being the lead engineer. Sandy isn’t new to the Internet and he is most obviously excited about his new role as Volo CEO and the challenge ahead.įOG Software Group have been acquiring different businesses for many years and sitting down with Sandy he told me that they are with Volo for the long haul – They have never yet sold a business that they’ve acquired and are firmly behind Volo and ready to revitalise its position as one of the key multichannel management solutions in the UK.Ĭhris Farrelly has re-joined the leadership team as CTO. For those that remember Windows 3.1, WinZip was the defacto freeware solution for compressing files and those that used it will remember it’s G-Clamp logo with fond memories. Sandy is an interesting guy, and many years ago was part of a company who acquired the killer utility of the 1990’s – WinZip. Volo Origin, the multichannel solution part of Volo, was acquired by FOG Software Group (part of Constellation Software) in September this year and the new CEO is full of energy and excited for the future. Source: SoftwareReviews, Accessed JOur TakeĬorel has managed to overcome the problems from the early 2000s and has established itself again as a trusted and reputable partner with a rich product suite offering that includes programs like CorelDraw, ClearSlide, Parallels, MindManager, and WinZip.Sandy Scott, the new CEO of Volo Commerce has been in the UK meeting Volo customers and preparing to rejuvenate the business. is a leading global investment firm that manages multiple assets including private equities, software, energy, and real estate.Īccording to internal sources, this acquisition will not result in massive layoffs and will provide an important injection of capital to the organization. In the past, Corel made some acquisitions, the more important and most lucrative was Parallels in 2018 to add virtualization to its product offering. At that time it became instantly famous for its graphics software Corel Draw, and for a period it was the largest Canadian software company. was originally founded in 1985 by Michael Cowpland.
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