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Who is Harris?

Harris is a serial acquirer based in Canada.

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Harris

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serial acquirer
Headquarters
Canada
Industries
Last verified 2026-07-27
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Harris is a Constellation Software operating group providing vertical-market software for the public sector, utilities, healthcare and education. It is organised into divisions including Health Care Group, Onyx, Altera and Frontline.

If Harris is across the table, the offer is straightforward: cash for 100% of the company, then permanent ownership. There is no fund clock pushing Harris to sell the business later. It says its in-house finance and legal teams can move quickly, but it does not publish a detailed diligence checklist or timetable—so ask for both early. After close, your business is expected to keep running day to day under decentralised management, with Harris benchmarking performance and providing financial and strategic support. The real decision for you is whether a full exit and a permanent home matter more than retaining equity.

Capital model
100% cash acquisition model funded from committed financial resources without reliance on third-party financing; Harris says the majority of the cash consideration is paid at closing.
Founder ownership
N. Harris Computer Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of publicly listed Constellation Software Inc. (TSX: CSU); it is not founder-owned.
Geography
Portfolio concentrated in North America, Europe and Australia, with an explicit objective to expand globally.
Hold period
Permanent ownership: a forever time horizon with no intention to sell acquired businesses.
Majority or minority
Full ownership; no minority-investment offering is stated.
Ownership
Full-control, 100% cash acquisitions followed by decentralised ownership: the acquired business retains operating autonomy while Harris provides central financial, strategic and administrative support.
Sector focus
Vertical-market and other mission-critical enterprise software businesses serving private-sector (B2B) and public-sector (B2G) markets. Harris considers on-premise, SaaS, hardware-integrated software and tech-enabled services.
Target revenue
Annual revenue from as little as $0.5m to more than $100m; the official source does not specify the currency.

Their portfolio

  • SectorInsurance
    What they doProvides fintech software for Israeli insurers, pension and financial-services firms, including tools for marketing and selling life-insurance and investment products.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides offender-management software and related services for correctional agencies.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doDevelops, implements and supports management, accounting and business software for small and midsize businesses, enterprises, municipalities and government agencies.
  • ACCEO Retail
    SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doProvides omnichannel retail-management software covering point of sale, inventory, merchandising, e-commerce and head-office operations.
  • ACCEO SMB Solutions
    SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doProvides small-business management software for payroll, invoicing, accounting, payments and related administrative workflows.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides integrated clinical, administrative and financial software for nursing homes and other long-term-care providers.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides utility customer-information and billing software for electric, water, gas and multi-service utilities.
  • SectorInsurance
    What they doProvides agency-management and accounting software for insurance agencies.
  • SectorInsurance
    What they doProvides modular insurance-processing software for agency management, policy underwriting, premium accounting, claims and regulatory reporting.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides electronic health records and connected digital-health software for hospitals, health systems and other care providers.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides electronic health records, practice-management, medical-billing and patient-engagement software for independent medical practices.
  • SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doProvides workplace and space-management software for floor plans, desk reservations, moves, occupancy and facilities planning.
  • SectorInsurance
    What they doProvides insurance-agent quoting software, sales leads and related subscription services.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides property-tax, mass-appraisal, land-recording and property-administration software for local governments.
  • SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doProvides integrated CAD-CAM, toolpath, simulation and G-code software for CNC machining and manufacturing.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides computer-aided dispatch, records-management, mobile and jail-management software for public-safety agencies.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides property-appraisal and related information services to government entities for property-tax administration.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides utility customer-information, billing, financial, work-management and workforce-management software.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides protective-monitoring and audit-trail software for public-sector, law-enforcement and large organizations.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides municipal permitting, inspections, planning, code-enforcement and licensing software.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides end-to-end staffing-agency software for applicant tracking, CRM, onboarding, payroll, client billing and accounting.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides managed customer billing and care solutions for competitive energy retailers, utilities and self-retailers.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides customer-information, billing, enterprise-resource-planning, asset-management and payment software for utilities and local governments.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides electronic health record, clinical, billing, analytics and workflow software for long-term and post-acute care providers.
  • Commerce Decisions
    SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides procurement-evaluation software and advisory services for complex public- and private-sector procurements.
  • SectorInsurance
    What they doProvides Medicare health-plan shopping, quoting and enrollment software for health plans, brokers and consumers.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides desktop and enterprise search software for locating files, emails and other organizational data.
  • SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doProvides payment-automation and integrated-receivables software for remittance, lockbox, distributed-capture and billing workflows.
  • SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doProvides e-commerce, managed website and photo-ordering software for camera stores, photo labs and photography businesses.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides outage-management and customer-communication software for electric, water and fiber utilities.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides secure self-service kiosk, interactive-display, workstation and digital-signage software and systems.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides records, jail, mobile, biometric and crime-mapping software for law-enforcement agencies.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides billing and revenue-management software for competitive energy retailers.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides integrated computer-aided dispatch, records, jail, mobile and civil-process software for public-safety agencies.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides professional-standards, anti-corruption, vetting and legal-case software for UK police forces.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides specialty electronic-health-record, practice-management, patient-engagement and revenue-cycle software, with a focus on cardiology.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides genetics laboratory-information and quality-compliance management software for healthcare and other regulated organizations.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides computer-aided dispatch, records, jail, data-sharing and facial-recognition software for criminal-justice and public-safety agencies.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides enterprise webcasting, webinar and virtual-event software with managed production and operator services.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides telecom business-customer portal software for digital self-service, billing analytics, payments and invoice disputes.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides parking, traffic and code-enforcement software for ticketing, permits, license-plate recognition and collections.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides healthcare financial decision-support software for costing, contracting, budgeting, analytics and data integrity.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides cloud-based electronic-health-record, practice-management and revenue-cycle software and services for medical practices.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides a cloud platform combining electronic health records, practice management, medical billing and patient engagement for independent medical practices.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides jail, pretrial and community-corrections management software for correctional agencies.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides enterprise-resource-planning software for state and local governments, covering finance, human resources, payroll and community operations.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides mass-appraisal, property-tax, collections, GIS and mobile-appraisal software for local-government assessment and tax offices.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides clinical, financial, scheduling and planning software for hospitals, health systems and medical practices.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides local-government software for financial management, human resources, property tax, utility billing and municipal operations.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides hospital-operations software for nursing workload, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical communications and health informatics.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides land, official, vital and court-recording software for county clerks, county recorders and courts.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides education-sector software for school finance, human resources, nutrition, student management, analytics and virtual learning.
  • Harris Utility Consumer Analytics
    SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides utility consumer-engagement and analytics software that gives customers visibility into energy and water usage.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides health-plan product and benefit data-management software for product configuration, document generation and sales enablement.
  • SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doProvides integrated property-management software for leases, accounting, payments, maintenance and tenant communications.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides link-analysis and intelligence software that helps investigators uncover connections across complex data.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides healthcare IT software and integration solutions for privacy, medication safety, clinical workflows and hospital systems.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides contact-centre and case-management software for helplines, crisis services and social-service organisations.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides clinical information software for intensive care, anaesthesia and other acute-care workflows.
  • SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doProvides integrated business-management software for law firms and other professional-services organisations.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides customer information, billing, financial and field-service software for small and mid-sized utilities.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides utility billing, meter-reading, accounting and payment software for local utilities.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides EHR, revenue-cycle and management software for behavioural health, public health and community hospitals.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides digital government, billing, payment and citizen-service platforms for public and private organisations.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides cloud software for organisational communications, community management and payments.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides patient-identity and healthcare data-integrity software and services for managing master patient indexes.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides digital maternity information systems that support clinical care throughout pregnancy and childbirth.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides billing, customer-management and accounting software for telecommunications and broadband providers.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides electronic health record, emergency-department and revenue-cycle software for hospitals and healthcare facilities.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides ERP, business-intelligence and clinical management software for healthcare and public-sector organisations.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides managed revenue-cycle, EHR, security, IT and integration services to healthcare organisations.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides a composable digital-experience platform for building and managing integrated web and mobile applications.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides care-management, patient-safety, quality and analytics software for hospitals and health systems.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides self-service connectivity software for telecom operators and internet providers to manage home networks and troubleshoot service issues.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides customer-information, billing, customer-portal and mobile-workforce software for utilities.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides revenue-cycle, patient-access, scheduling and financial software for hospitals and healthcare providers.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides perinatal software for fetal monitoring, clinical workflows and integration with hospital EHR systems.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides learner-management and e-portfolio software for apprenticeships, skills and workforce training.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doProvides mapping and field-workflow software for utilities, municipalities and infrastructure contractors.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doProvides integrated finance, land, document, court and citizen-service software for Quebec municipalities.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doProvides perioperative and critical-care information systems for hospitals.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doPrismRBS provides campus retail technology including point-of-sale, ERP, mobile and e-commerce solutions for higher-education stores.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doPrognoCIS provides cloud-based EHR, practice-management, medical-billing, e-prescribing, patient-engagement and telemedicine software for ambulatory healthcare organisations.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doPulseCheck provides clinical workflow software for emergency departments, urgent-care centres and animal hospitals, including patient-access, EMR and billing tools.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doQuadraMed provides enterprise master-patient-index and patient-identity management software for healthcare systems.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doQuestline Digital provides digital customer-engagement, content-marketing and communications technology for energy and water utilities.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doQuicksilva provides NHS data-integration, cloud-hosting and migration, and bespoke software-development services for healthcare, government and private-sector organisations.
  • SectorInsurance
    What they doQuoteBurst provides software that automates new quotes, internet-lead quoting and requotes for insurance agencies.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doResolv Healthcare provides revenue-cycle management services and software for ambulatory, hospital, dental, laboratory and workers' compensation healthcare providers.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doRialtas provides accounting and administration software and support for UK town, parish and community councils.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doServiceLink provides mobile-workforce and field-service management software for water, gas, electric, fibre and sanitation utilities.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doSilverBlaze provides utility customer-engagement software including self-service portals, mobile apps, smart-meter analytics and automated forms and workflows.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doSirsiDynix provides integrated library systems, discovery, mobile and community-engagement software for public, academic, school, government and corporate libraries.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doSIV provides kVASy utility software for billing, finance, energy-data management, market communication, technical assets and related energy and water workflows.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doSmartCOP provides integrated computer-aided dispatch, records, jail, mobile and analytics software for law-enforcement and public-safety agencies.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doSmartWorks provides meter-data management, workflow automation, analytics and customer-engagement software for electric, water and gas utilities.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doSpecSoft provides configurable web-based business-operations software covering inventory, purchasing, order management, scheduling, point of sale and accounting workflows.
  • SectorHealthcare
    What they doSTC Health provides cloud-hosted immunisation information and programme-management software for public-health agencies, pharmacies and healthcare providers.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doSyscon Justice Systems provides enterprise offender-management and corrections case-management software for correctional agencies.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doSystem Innovators provides inovah payment and enterprise revenue-management software for governments and utilities.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doSystems & Software provides enQuesta utility customer-information, billing, meter-data, field-operations and customer-service software.
  • SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doTECVIA provides integrated ERP, digital-learning, content-platform and driving-simulator solutions for driving schools and professional driver-training organisations.
  • SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doTender Retail provides acquirer-agnostic payment middleware and management software for enterprise retailers and quick-service restaurants.
  • SectorPrivate Sector
    What they doTouchBistro provides cloud-based restaurant point-of-sale and management software covering front-of-house, back-of-house and guest-engagement workflows.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doTrancite Logic Systems provides scene-diagramming software for law-enforcement, fire, crash-investigation and other public-safety workflows.
  • SectorUtilities
    What they doVantrix provides software-defined media-processing and optimisation software for mobile operators and video-service providers.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doVLN Education provides an online K–12 learning platform, course content and teacher support for school-managed virtual and blended-learning programmes.
  • SectorPublic Sector
    What they doXanalys provides configurable investigative case-management software for law-enforcement, regulatory, corrections and victim-management teams.

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