This book has been created to serve students of information systems and computer science to serve as a primer for getting acquainted with key concepts and mechanisms of software supply-chains and mergers and acquisitions. It contains scientific content, best practices as well as street smarts when dealing with these topics. Questions after each chapter allow the reader to see if the content was successfully acquired and can be applied.

Dr. Karl Michael Popp is a senior advisor at Lincoln International and a retired member of the Corporate Development M&A team at SAP SE in Germany.
In his thirty-year career he has worked on over 50 acquisitions and successful merger integrations as well as a few divestitures.