Klipboard, a global provider of business management software solutions for retail, distribution, manufacturing, servicing and rental businesses has completed the acquisition of Savance Enterprise.
Savance Enterprise is a specialist ERP software platform created specifically for customers in wholesale distribution including electrical, HVAC, plumbing and industrial supply. The platform is built for usability and user acceptance and its infrastructure is designed to support multiple users accessing large amounts of data at the same time. From the ground up, Savance Enterprise was built to scale from single location businesses up to complex, multi-store and warehouse organizations.
With its deep knowledge of wholesale distribution, Savance Enterprise has been optimized to drive improved efficiency, sales and margin for its customers by providing one common system that integrates accounting, purchasing, sales and warehouse management and efficient supplier purchasing, inventory management and customer contracting.
Savance Enterprise is currently in use at customers across the United States and processes millions of data points each day. Savance Enterprise translates this raw data into easy-to-understand insights for customers to manage their business on a daily basis.
This acquisition accelerates Klipboard’s growing presence in wholesale distribution across the United States and will boost the organization’s industry expertise and expanded product offering to this key strategic industry.
Joining Klipboard represents a huge opportunity for Savance Enterprise,” says Jason Plascenia, founder and CEO of Savance in a press release. “Access to the resources and expertise that Klipboard provides will enable Savance Enterprise to accelerate growth and improve our ability to deliver a great solution for both new and existing customers.”
“We are excited to welcome the Savance Enterprise team to Klipboard,” says Ian Bendelow, CEO of Klipboard. “This acquisition strengthens our presence in the wholesale distribution market and brings additional expertise into our business, while enabling the Savance Enterprise team to offer customers a broader range of software solutions, including Klipboard’s cloud-hosted business management platforms.”
What This Means for ERP Insiders
Vertical specialization drives consolidation strategy. Klipboard’s acquisition of Savance Enterprise demonstrates that ERP vendors are prioritizing deep industry expertise over horizontal expansion, targeting platforms with purpose-built capabilities for specific wholesale distribution segments like electrical, HVAC, and plumbing supply to accelerate market penetration and deliver immediate operational value. This signals to enterprise architects and transformation leaders vertical alignment now outweighs generic functionality when evaluating acquisition targets and partnership opportunities.
Multi-tenancy architecture becomes competitive necessity. Savance Enterprise’s infrastructure designed explicitly to support simultaneous large-data access across multiple users reflects growing market expectations for scalable, high-performance cloud platforms that eliminate traditional on-premise bottlenecks. ERP vendors and GSIs must prioritize modernization investments in concurrent user management, data throughput optimization and elastic infrastructure to meet wholesale distributors’ operational demands for real-time warehouse management across complex multi-location organizations.
Data-to-insight capability defines platform differentiation. The emphasis on translating millions of daily data points into actionable business insights positions analytics and operational intelligence as core product strategy rather than supplementary features. This acquisition underscores for transformation leaders and systems integrators that successful ERP evolution requires embedding real-time decisioning layers directly into transactional workflows, shifting competitive differentiation from transaction processing efficiency to predictive analytics, margin optimization and intelligent automation.
