FORUM Family Office Acquires 100% of brain-SCC GmbH

FORUM Family Office ("FORUM") has acquired 100% of the shares in brain-SCC GmbH, based in Merseburg, through its sector holding company FORUM Software Mittelstandsholding SE. The company generates sales of approximately 35 employees a Turnover of approx. € 10 million.

Following the merger to form brain-SCC GmbH in 2007 by Sirko Scheffler and Prof. Dr. Ronny Weinkauf, brain-SCC initially developed into a leading provider of CMS software for municipal portals. The technical advantage is based on the brain-GeoCMS, which combined web-based geodata applications with classic editorial systems on a single technical platform very early on.

In 2021, the company achieved a breakthrough by winning the EfA project for the focus service „Digital Building Permit“. The solution is currently used by 10 federal states. A special technical feature is the newly developed process room technology („VGR“).

FORUM's continuation concept envisages a continuation of the corporate strategy in all essential points. In particular, personnel and location in Merseburg will be retained. The VGR technology is to be made compatible with the VOIS technology of FORUM's sister company HSH Software in Ahrensfelde and marketed in the VOIS community.

Prof. Dr. Ronny Weinkauf is a full-time lecturer at the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences in the fields of economics and information sciences.

In addition to his main role as Managing Director of brain-SCC, Sirko Scheffler is also Chairman of DATABUND, State Chairman of the Economic Council of Saxony-Anhalt, a member of the board of Kommune X.0, buergerservice.org, Cluster IT Mitteldeutschland and numerous other organizations.

The two founders comment on this step as follows:

"With FORUM, we have found the ideal partner who will allow us to continue our entrepreneurial ideas and values in the future, which we have developed together with our employees and partners in recent years. This includes, above all, scientifically driven innovation and our role as a reliable, medium-sized partner to the public sector. These values have made us a successful, nationwide digital company based in the cathedral and university city of Merseburg. The trusting and always very cooperative collaboration with HSH, led by Stephan Hauberger, paved the way for Forum. Dr. Wittek has very convincingly developed a perspective with us founders that allows us to develop an innovative platform strategy consisting of VOIS and the process room. In this way, we are creating an end-to-end solution from online access for citizens to efficient data and process structures in administration."

FORUM invests the assets of a Munich family in medium-sized companies. FORUM's principles in the area of Family Equity are: permanent, decentralized, entrepreneurial – completely different from financial investors. This approach has already persuaded more than 30 entrepreneurs to entrust FORUM with their life's work.