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Civica Group Limited is an international software company headquartered in London, UK, with regional offices in Australia, Singapore, and North America.


History

Civica was set up through a management buy-out from the Sanderson Group in 1999, backed by venture capitalist group
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and led by Simon Downing who became chief executive. The Civica Group was officially formed from the Sanderson Group in 2002. The group was subsequently listed on the
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of the
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in 2004. It was delisted in 2008 when it was acquired by 3i for £190 million. In September 2009 Civica acquired in4tek, a community health and social care record software specialist based in
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. In April 2011 Civica UK, a wholly owned subsidiary of Civica Group, acquired specialized document and records management services provider Cave Tab. In May 2011 it acquired PSCAL, a financial management software and services provider for the NHS. In June 2012, Civica acquired Gateway Computing Ltd, publisher of WinDIP Enterprise, a document and records management software suite. In 2013 Civica acquired Corero Business Systems, an educational software provider. In 2014 Civica acquired both Coldharbour Systems, a software provider, and Healthcare and Keystone Asset Management, an asset management specialist for the Housing market. Also, in 2014 Civica acquired Asidua, a local government contact management and application specialist and telecoms specialist. In 2016 Civica acquired Norwel Legal and IPL Information Processing Limited. In 2016 Civica also acquired government digital specialist SFW LTD. through which Civica converted SFW India Pvt LTD. to Civica offshore resourcing center in Vadodara,
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. In December 2016 Civica acquired Abritas, a social housing software developer and service provider based in Reading, Berkshire. Civica was sold to
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in July 2017 for £1.06 billion. At that point it had about 3,700 staff. In 2018
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was sold out to Civica, becoming Civica Election Services. In November 2023,
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sold Civica to alternative asset manager
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for approximately $2.5 billion. The takeover was completed in May 2024.


Operations

Civica offers services across the following markets: *
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*
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*Parking enforcement & public protection *
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and
education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...
*Mobile fleet and asset management *Public protection *Pension administration * Health and Social Care *
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Education and libraries

Civica provides software and IT services to education and learning services, including shared learning environments,
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services, and software licensing frameworks. The group also provides IT services including
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s (VLE) for schools in Sheffield and Luton under the
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(BSF) program."Civica nets bumper BSF deal"
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External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20101127064512/http://www.guardianpublic.co.uk/civca-survey-council-managers Civica conference coverage,''
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'' *https://web.archive.org/web/20101127234310/http://www.guardianpublic.co.uk/public-private-sector-partnerships Civica Chief Executive Simon Downing discusses public-private partnerships, ''
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'' *https://web.archive.org/web/20101214141917/http://www.civicaplc.com/NR/rdonlyres/2E6C2C25-581F-45FF-8078-4075386FE54E/1725/CivicaBrochure.pdf Civica service brochure *https://web.archive.org/web/20110722194851/http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=66168 Civica company profile, ''Localgov.co.uk''


References

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