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{{Infobox company
| name = Click Commerce, Inc.
| logo = Clickcommerce logo.png
| type = Subsidiary
| foundation = [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]] ({{start date and age|1996}})
| location = [[Hillsboro, Oregon]]<br>{{coord|45.5342|-122.8795|type:landmark_region:US-OR|display=inline,title}}
| key_people = Nick Stier, President<br />Ron Mitchell, VP, Professional Services<br />Gary Raetz, COO, Chief Operating Officer<br />Gary Whitney, VP, Sales and Marketing
| num_employees = 63 est. (2010)
| products = eResearch Portal, Research Administration
| parent = [[Huron Consulting Group]]
| homepage =
| industry = [[Business software]]
}}

'''Click Commerce''', Inc. is a research software company based in [[Hillsboro, Oregon]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://washims.co.washington.or.us/GIS/index.cfm?id=29&sid=3&IDValue=1N225CD00700&x_coord=7592352.77894850&y_coord=689847.42703326|title=Overlay Information 1N236BB00800|work=Geographic Information Systems|publisher=Washington County, Oregon|access-date=28 November 2010}}</ref> United States. Incorporated in 1996 as Click Interactive, Inc. in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], the company historically supplied [[Business software|business application software]] and related services.

==History==
Click Commerce was founded by [[Michael W. Ferro, Jr.]], Jim Heising, and Sarah O'Donnell <ref>{{cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Erika|title=Starting Your Own Business: Spare the rod . . .|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/0518/6110076a.html|work=Forbes|date=May 18, 1998|access-date=29 June 2015|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924150514/http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/0518/6110076a.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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 [[Oregon]] based '''Webridge''', a privately held software developer that marketed [[Regulatory compliance|tr compliance]] related software to research universities.<ref name="pbj">{{cite news|url=http://bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2004/03/15/daily41.html|title=Webridge purchased by Chicago company|last=Earnshaw|first=Aliza|date=March 18, 2004|work=Portland Business Journal|access-date=29 November 2010}}</ref> Click Commerce retained Webridge's office in Oregon along with part of that company's staff.<ref name="pbj"/>

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.<ref name="pbj stay">{{cite news|last=Siemers|first=Erik|title=Click Commerce is here to stay|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/print-edition/2011/03/04/click-commerce-is-here-to-stay.html?page=all|access-date=5 January 2013|newspaper=Portland Business Journal|date=March 4, 2011}}</ref> 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 [[Emptoris]], an existing Marlin portfolio company based in [[Burlington, Massachusetts]], 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.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}

Marlin Equity Partners subsequently acquired Servigistics, a strategic service management company headquartered in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], 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 [[Huron Consulting Group]], but retained its software development and services site in Oregon.<ref name="pbj stay"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/11/5/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-november-5-2010.aspx|title=Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of November 5, 2010|date=November 5, 2010|work=iHealthBeat|publisher=The Advisory Board Company|access-date=29 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210153903/http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2010/11/5/health-it-business-news-roundup-for-the-week-of-november-5-2010.aspx|archive-date=10 December 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Operations==
[[File:AmberGlen Building 15 - Hillsboro, Oregon.JPG|thumb|The Click Commerce office.]]
The Research and Healthcare Division retained the Click Commerce name, and is headquartered in the [[Portland metropolitan area]] of [[Oregon]]. Specializing in the business of research, their eResearch Portal includes:

*[[Institutional Review Boards]] (IRB)
*Grants and Contracts
*SF424 {{proper name|eSubmission}}
*[[Conflict of interest]]
*Clinical Trials Billing
*[[Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees]] (IACUC)
*Institutional Biosafety Committees (IBC)
*Animal Operations
*Effort Reporting
*Safety Committees

==See also==
* [[List of companies based in Oregon]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Illinois Tool Works}}

[[Category:Companies based in Hillsboro, Oregon]]
[[Category:Companies established in 1996]]
[[Category:Companies disestablished in 2006]]
[[Category:1996 establishments in Illinois]]
[[Category:2006 mergers and acquisitions]]
[[Category:2009 mergers and acquisitions]]
[[Category:2010 mergers and acquisitions]]

Click Commerce - Revision history

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