from Wintersemester 2024/2025

Content

This course equips students with the basics of key activities in the software industry: software supply chains and mergers & acquisitions. The content ranges from supply side value chains, like inbound OEM, open-source components or APIs, to mergers and acquisitions, including players, deal types, processes, opportunities, and risks, with a detailed examination of goals, valuations, and transactions in the recent software M&A market.

This course equips students with the basics of key activities in the software industry: software supply chains and mergers & acquisitions. The content ranges from supply side value chains, like inbound OEM, open-source components or APIs, to mergers and acquisitions, including players, deal types, processes, opportunities, and risks, with a detailed examination of goals, valuations, and transactions in the recent software M&A market.

Learning objectives

After successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1.     Analyze supply chains of software vendors.

2.     Define and evaluate supply relationships in software supply chains by discussing risks and opportunities of such relationships.

3.     Identify players and roles in mergers and acquisitions processes.

4.     Define phases and tasks of M&A processes.

5.     Understand and discuss valuations of software companies.

6.     Analyze opportunities and risks of M&A projects.

Schedule:

• Block 1:
  • October 24, 2024, 2pm - 5pm
  • October 25, 2024, 1pm - 4pm
• Block 2:
  • November 25, 2024, 2pm - 5pm
  • November 26, 2024, 1pm - 4pm
• Block 3:
  • December 12, 2024, 2pm - 5pm
  • December 13, 2024 ,1pm - 4pm
• Block 4:
  • Janaury 16, 2025, 2pm - 5pm
  • January 17, 2025, 1pm - 4pm