"This is an opportunity," said Jeff Vogstad, client solutions team manager at Coast Mountain Bus Co., based in Vancouver. The transportation company uses Infor's Datastream asset management applications to help maintain its 1,200 buses and its facilities. The buyout of SSA will allow Infor to offer a broader set of applications, and with a greater sized installed base that will increase the opportunity for customers to share intellectual property.

Vogstad said he's also interested in SSA's warehouse management and transport management applications, and hopes Infor will work to integrate them with its own software.

The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter.