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, United States. Incorporated in 1996 as Click Interactive, Inc. in

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, the company historically supplied business application software and related services.

History

Click Commerce was founded by

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, Jim Heising, and Sarah O'Donnell and was incorporated in 1996 as Click Interactive, Incorporated. The company changed its name to Click Commerce, Inc. in 1999 and went public on NASDAQ in June, 2000 under the symbol CKCM. In 2004, Click purchased

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based Webridge, a privately held software developer that marketed tr compliance related software to research universities. Click Commerce retained Webridge's office in Oregon along with part of that company's staff. In October 2006, the company was acquired by Illinois Tool Works (ITW) and operated as an independent business unit until May 15, 2009, when Marlin Equity Partners acquired three software operating units from ITW. The transaction included the Service Network Solutions (“SNS”) and Research and Healthcare Solutions (“RHS”) businesses and the rights to the Click Commerce, Inc. name. Additionally, the Contract Service and Management (“CSM”) business was also acquired but merged into

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, an existing Marlin portfolio company based in

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, specializing in supply management and contract management software. Click Commerce’s eCommerce and Channel Management Division was retained by ITW and is doing business as Requisite Technology, Inc. Marlin Equity Partners subsequently acquired Servigistics, a strategic service management company headquartered in

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, and on July 7, 2009 announced its merger with Click Commerce’s Service Network Solutions (SNS) unit. In November 2010, Click Commerce was purchased by

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, but retained its software development and services site in Oregon.

Operations

The Research and Healthcare Division retained the Click Commerce name, and is headquartered in the

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. Specializing in the business of research, their eResearch Portal includes: *

Institutional Review Boards An institutional review board (IRB), also known as an independent ethics committee (IEC), ethical review board (ERB), or research ethics board (REB), is a committee that applies research ethics by reviewing the methods proposed for research to ens ...

(IRB) *Grants and Contracts *SF424 eSubmission *

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*Clinical Trials Billing *

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(IACUC) *Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBC) *Animal Operations *Effort Reporting *Safety Committees

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