Lexmark International is to acquire Germany-based Saperion AG, a developer and provider of enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) software in Europe, for a cash purchase price of approximately $US72 million. 

The company says Saperion's ECM/BPM products are highly scalable and easy to integrate with all major ERP, email and document management systems. Saperion has also developed cloud-based and mobile ECM solutions.

"Lexmark continues to deepen and expand its content and process capabilities and solutions, which in turn improves our ability to help our customers manage their unstructured information challenges," said Paul Rooke, Lexmark's chairman and chief executive officer. 

"Upon closing, Saperion will be the latest software acquisition that strengthens Lexmark's transition from being a global leader in imaging and output technology to one that offers enterprises end-to-end solutions."