eOne Partners and Customers,
We have exciting news for our community. As you may have seen in our recent press release, eOne has entered a new chapter through a strategic acquisition of DataBlend, a leading finance-focused iPaaS provider serving over 1,000 customers globally. This move represents a significant milestone in our ERP journey and expands possibilities for our products, services, and most importantly, for you—our valued partners and customers.
We understand that changes like these often raise questions, and we’re committed to providing clear, transparent information. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through what this acquisition means for our business relationship going forward through a series of FAQ’s to address common questions from partners and customers like you.
Our goal is to ensure a smooth transition while maintaining the quality and reliability you’ve come to expect from us. We view this acquisition not just as a business transaction, but as an opportunity to enhance our offerings and better serve your needs.
Let’s explore what this new chapter means for all of us.
With this acquisition, eOne becomes the dominant integration solution for mid-market ERP applications like Microsoft (GP, BC and F&O), Sage (Intacct), Acumatica and NetSuite. eOne has a long history in the integration space, starting out by supporting Microsoft Great Plains customers over 20 years ago. Today, eOne’s SmartConnect application is used by more than 6,000 organizations globally to integrate products across a wide number of software ecosystems.
As eOne looks to accelerate its growth, both organically and through acquisition, DataBlend’s targeted strategy around the Office of the CFO and its rapid expansion in the past few years made the company a perfect fit with eOne’s strategy to deliver no-code, low-code data management solutions for integration, migration, and reporting.
Collectively, the eOne and DataBlend offerings streamline integrations with major ERP, eCommerce, Shipping, Expense Management, CRM, Financial Reporting, Forecasting, and most other business productivity solutions
This acquisition also opens new markets for innovative solutions from eOne, like Popdock. Popdock takes a different approach for how organizations address their integration challenge. By opening virtual connections into applications, Popdock allows teams to see and share data without the need for the heavy lifting of typical data integration projects.
Used by 10,000 customers, Popdock is now readily available across the Sage Intacct ecosystem and to the rest of DataBlend’s customers. “Popdock is so unique, I just cannot wait to introduce it to all of the DataBlend customers, partners and the entire Sage Intacct ecosystem”, Ethan Carlson, DataBlend’s founder.
Over the past four years, we have created a cohesive team that cares deeply about each other and the customers and partners we serve. To realize our product vision and expand our customer base, we essentially had two options – stay it alone by raising money from investors adding to our team and product incrementally or join forces with like-minded professionals who truly understand what it means to operate successfully (and profitably) in our market. By choosing the latter, we believe it gives our employees the best opportunity for professional growth, our customers and partners the best platform for product expansion and innovation, and our investors a fair return on their investment. And it is important to know that this is also the order in which we evaluated the opportunity!
eOne has a mission to support its mid-market customers and its partners in every ecosystem they work in. eOne listened to partners and customers. They told eOne that they wanted more options than just Microsoft.
eOne debated building its own connections to products like Sage Intacct, Procore, and ADP organically or acquiring an existing solution. We decided that the best path forward was to partner with a company that had already developed a product and relationships in these ecosystems. We were very excited to meet DataBlend and, over many months of courting, agreed that a full acquisition was the best path forward for both companies and our partners/customers.
Your designated contact is available to answer any of your questions, so please reach out. If you are not sure who to contact, please email either support@datablend.com or support@eonesolutions.com and someone will be in touch shortly. You can also browse www.eonesolutions.com or www.datablend.com.
All your contacts will remain the same to limit any disruption to your experience with eOne and DataBlend. With a larger team, you will have access to a wider and deeper pool of ERP integration experts.
The process for support remains unchanged, so you should continue to use your current channel. A nice benefit is the acquisition does create an expanded support team across East USA, Central USA, Denmark, Ireland, India and New Zealand, so we plan to train these teams on both products. We remain committed to providing world-class support via direct phone, email, chat, and support from an AI-driven knowledgebase.
The acquisition of DataBlend by eOne will not impact the products you are using from either company. The products that have made these two companies stand out in their respective markets will continue to be enhanced and supported by each company. That said, the expansion of the combined product teams will provide collective intelligence and shared knowledge that will be directed to improving both companies’ offerings.
An immediate example of the two development teams working is the availability of Popdock for DataBlend customers and partners. Up until now this was a function only available to users of eOne’s SmartConnect.
There will be no changes to pricing to either company’s offerings as a result of this acquisition.
No, you will not. We hope all of our partners become comfortable selling the full range of products. Over time, we expect to have a comprehensive eOne partnership agreement covering the full range of products. We do not anticipate any significant changes to the existing agreements.
From a day-to-day perspective, your relationship with DataBlend and eOne, whether a customer or a partner, will not change in any way. End User license agreements and Partnership agreements will be maintained through to expiry and renewal.
Not at all. DataBlend will continue to support its marketplace partnerships and leverage the strengths of eOne to enhance our capabilities and deepen our connectivity to these and other great products.
DataBlend and eOne remain steadfast in the commitment to serving Sage Intacct and its entire ecosystem. We look forward to continuing our relationship with Sage Intacct’s amazing team members and partners. While not as familiar a name in the Sage Intacct space, eOne has been working with Sage for some time and is excited to bring innovative solutions like Popdock to market behind DataBlend’s larger footprint in this space. eOne is also excited to be able to continue a relationship with our customers who chose to move from a legacy ERP to Sage Intacct. “Up until now we did not have a viable option for our customers that chose Sage Intacct as their next ERP – and now we will be excited to present DataBlend to those customers,” noted eOne CEO Martin Olsen.
We would be very happy to meet with you and answer any questions that your regular eOne/DataBlend contact is unable to answer. Please contact either of the respective leaders:
Martin Olsen, CEO of eOne Solutions: Martin.Olsen@eonesolutions.com
David Furth, CEO at DataBlend: dfurth@datablend.com
