Chris Ney

Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer
Chris oversees Magnitude Software’s overall corporate vision and strategic direction.
As Chairman and CEO, Chris leads Magnitude Software’s corporate vision and strategic direction, driving the company’s acquisition, integration and growth strategies to extend the company’s global reach. Under his leadership, Magnitude Software has developed an unparalleled customer experience, strengthened its culture of innovation, and greatly increased profitability and shareholder value. In September 2014, Chris successfully secured up to $100 million in capital to further build Magnitude Software through product innovation, organic growth and strategic acquisitions.
Ney was previously Co-Founder and President of Silverback Enterprise Group, where the team completed the strategic acquisition of nine industry-leading enterprise software companies and leveraged their synergies to build two powerful new entities: Magnitude Software and Upland Software. Magnitude Software offers a family of award-winning solutions for enterprise performance management, master data management and data connectivity. Upland Software (Nasdaq: UPLD) went public in late 2014 and is a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise work management software with over 2,000 active enterprise customers and more than 235,000 active users in more than 50 countries.
Prior to co-founding Silverback, Ney was CEO of a series of Trilogy/Versata portfolio software companies. He previously served as Chairman of the Board, CEO and Founder of CoreTrac, a financial services CRM software company. Ney began his career working for investment banking firms Lehman Brothers and UBS.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Texas A&M University.
Magnitude ONE Named KMWorld Trendsetting Product for 2016
/in Awards, Magnitude /by Sally HicksKMWorld Editor, Sandra Haimila, said the magazine and its judges looked for products “designed, developed and perfectly timed to fill a niche in the marketplace before users are even aware that such functionality and flexibility have been missing.”
Magnitude Software Acquires Simba Technologies, leading Data Access and Analytics Connectivity Provider
/in Magnitude, News /by Sally Hicks“This acquisition furthers our strategic vision to enable enterprise-wide visibility and insights for corporate performance management,” said Chris Ney, Chairman & CEO of Magnitude Software. “As data heterogeneity expands exponentially, so does the complexity of connectivity challenges that Simba can help solve, accelerating our ability to put data into the hands of business users. The experience and knowledge of the Simba team, combined with the capabilities to deliver connectivity to a wide variety of data sources, increase Magnitude Software’s growth trajectory in reporting, analytics, and data management within the information management market.”
Frequently Asked Questions: Magnitude Software Acquisition of Simba Technologies
/in Magnitude, News /by Sally HicksWhy did Magnitude Software acquire Simba Technologies?
The combination of the two companies furthers our strategic vision to enable enterprise-wide visibility and insights for our customers. It enables Magnitude (leading provider of enterprise information management software) to drive growth by bolstering our solution portfolio with connectivity capabilities to a wide array of heterogeneous applications and data sources. For Simba (global provider of standards-based relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity), the value is in becoming part of a global organization, enabling a broader go-to-market strategy and increasing competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Magnitude Software Introduces RTD Stream, the Cross-Platform ERP Consolidation Solution
/in Datalytics, Magnitude, News /by Sally Hicks“The ERP landscape is more fragmented than ever, and that trend will only continue,” said Mike Ormerod, Vice President of Product Management at Magnitude Software. “With the release of RTD Stream we are giving real-time controls and insights to CFOs and finance departments so they can better optimize their businesses with a connectivity solution that leverages our deep understanding of the internal Oracle ERP and SAP HANA data structures.”
Oracle’s NetSuite Buy Brings It Instant Cloud Credibility
/in Magnitude, Media /by Sally HickseWeek presents insights from top industry leaders and influencers including James Governor, co-founder of Redmonk, Charles King, analyst at Pund-IT, Rob Enderle, founder of Enderle Group, Michael Fauscette, chief research officer at G2 Crowd, Judith Hurwitz CEO of Hurwitz Group, Jeremy Roche CEO at FinancialForce and Magnitude’s own president, Lou Guercia
Magnitude Software Buys Data Warehouse Solutions Vendor Datalytics Technologies
/in Datalytics, Magnitude, News /by Sally Hicks“This acquisition furthers our strategic objective to enable office of the CFO and other functional executives to gain accurate and near-real time business insights across their heterogeneous ERP environment,” said Chris Ney, CEO of Magnitude Software. “With the addition of Datalytics Technologies, Magnitude Software can now provide one of the broadest set of pre-configured ERP analytic content available in the industry.”
Magnitude Takes Gold and Bronze in 2016 Stevie Awards
/in American Business Awards, Awards, Magnitude, Stevies /by Sally HicksTwo of Magnitude’s products have been awarded Gold and Bronze Stevie Awards for New Software Product of the Year – Business Intelligence Solution in the 14th Annual American Business Awards.
Magnitude Software EIM Solutions Win Gold and Bronze Stevie® Awards in 2016 American Business Awards
/in Kalido, Magnitude, News, Noetix /by Sally HicksThe American Business Awards are considered the nation’s preeminent business awards program. In 2016, more than 3,400 nominations from organizations of all sizes and every industry were submitted for consideration in a wide range of categories. More than 250 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process.
Magnitude Software Unveils Master Data Management Offering Designed for Midmarket Enterprises at Microsoft Envision 2016
/in Kalido, Magnitude, News, Noetix /by Sally Hicks“Midmarket firms deal with the same complex applications, fragmented systems and master data issues as large enterprises, and they often turn to their trusted implementation partners because they don’t have the resources or time for multi-year efforts to deliver clean data to the organization,” said Lou Guercia, president of Magnitude Software.
Independent Research Firm Positions Magnitude Software’s Kalido MDM Solution as a Strong Performer in Evaluation of Master Data Management Solutions
/in Kalido, Magnitude, News /by Sally Hicks“We’re honored to be included in the Forrester Wave and cited as a Strong Performer in Master Data Management,” said Darren Peirce, CTO and VP of Products at Magnitude Software. “We believe this underscores Magnitude Software’s commitment to helping our customers put a proactive MDM solution in place to deal with the increasing fragmentation of master data caused by the adoption of SaaS, best of breed solutions and the unbundling of the monolithic ERPs.”