Greenwood Village-based EMS Software announced Monday that it has been acquired by Accruent, which plans to boost its own technology of using software to manage real estate and other physical assets.
Accruent, based in Austin, Texas, plans to keep the EMS’s Denver office as is. It will join Accruent’s more than 20 offices and 1,100 employees worldwide, said Meg Swanson, Chief Marketing Officer for Accruent. EMS employs 120 people in Greenwood Village.
“In addition, sales and support resources continue in place, now with the backing of Accruentap global team,” Swanson said in an email. “Planned product upgrades will stay on track and Accruent is actively promoting the 17th Annual EMS Live! conference in Denver in October.”
EMS, founded in 1986 as Dean Evans & Associates, developed software to help Colorado State University ditch paper and use software to reserve meeting rooms. After an in 2014, the company later changed its name to EMS, named after its popular Event Management System software.
