This is CDC. Respond.

CDC Software is buying again. The CDC Corporation subsidiary has announced the acquisition of Respond Group, Ltd. Respond is a European provider of software applications for customer service. CDC spokespeople enthusiastically reported that “Respond applications and [the] organization are highly complementary to CDC Software’s Pivotal CRM solutions.”

To CDC, Respond brings a clientele list that includes AXA Insurance, Barclays, and Aegon among others.

Pivotal Corporation is a software unit of CDC Corporation that boasts of clientele of 1,800 companies all its own, including Farm Credit Services of America, WCI Communities, Premera Blue Cross, Qiagen, ESRI, AvMed Health Plans, Sharp Electronics Corporation, and CMS Cameron McKenna.

CDC Software is a provider of enterprise software applications designed to assist organizations in delivering a superior customer experience. The CDC Software product suite includes Pivotal CRM, c360 CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform development tools, Ross enterprise resource planning, Ross supply chain management, IMI warehouse management, order management, Platinum China human resource solutions, and business analytics.

CDC Software now boasts more than 5,000 customers worldwide in the manufacturing, financial services, health care, home building, real estate, and wholesale and retail distribution industries. CDC Software is a division of CDC Corporation, a provider of enterprise resource planning and supply chain management software applications in addition to its CRM solutions.