Title
Grad, Burt (Burton) oral history : Burton grad Associates, Inc.
Catalog Number
102746731
Type
Document
Description
Burt Grad describes starting Burton Grad Associates, Inc. in 1978 which was his consulting practice for software and services companies after leaving IBM. Based on his work as an IBM representative to ADAPSO he had met many of the leading entrepreneurs in the industry and was able to build a practice providing strategic planning and organizational consulting to those companies. This was then changed into a business which focused more on company valuations for tax purposes and then was most heavily involved in due diligence studies for companies buying other companies in the industry. Informatics, Sterling Software (and later Sterling Commerce) along with AGS Computers were among the most significant of the more than 200 clients for the company over a 30-year period. With the gradual drop in mainframe computers and the growth of minicomputers and then microcomputers, the contacts that had been built up through ADAPSO were of less significance and the size of the consulting practice diminished. And eventually the consulting business basically faded away.
Date
2008-12-17
Contributor
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Ances, Carol Anne, editor
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Grad, Burt, Interviewee
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Jerger, Douglas, Interviewer
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Westport, Connecticut
Extent
46 p.
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
ADAPSO; AGS Computers; Ances, Carol Anne; BGAI; Boole & Babbage; Broadview Associates; Burton Grad Associates, Inc.; Coleman, Bruce; Computer Associates; Computer Based Training; Consultant’s Roundtable; Due Diligence; Dunayer, Sid; Expert Witness; Goldstein, Bernie; Informatics; Mergers and Acquisitions; MITI (Japan); Processing Services; Professional Services; Schoenberg, Larry
Collection Title
Oral history collection
Credit
Software Industry Special Interest Group
