Finalisons ! ♫

Erin Vork (de MakeMusic) a fait une annonce concernant MakeMusic sur le forum américain de Finale.
En substance, MakeMusic rejoint Peaksware, une firme qui en chapeaute plusieurs, et qui appartient au principal actionnaire de MakeMusic, LaunchEquity Partners.
Peaksware se présente comme proposant des outils (software), des services et des formations données par des experts pour obtenir des résultats concrets d'excellence dans diverses disciplines (de l'entraînement du triathlon à maintenant, la musique !).
On verra à l'expérience si c'est une bonne nouvelle !

"Today MakeMusic announced that it will join Peaksware, the umbrella company owned by LaunchEquity Partners, the investment company that took MakeMusic private in 2013. You can learn more about Peaksware and view the press release at https://www.peaksware.com

Here’s an excerpt from the release:
“Through a unique approach to deliberate practice, each brand within Peaksware develops software solutions and provides services to help guide people along their own journey of improvement. From completing a triathlon to learning a musical instrument, the same strategy applies: set a specific goal, get expert instruction, perform focused practice and receive immediate feedback. This shared approach is the common thread connecting the brands.”

Obviously, Finale always has been, and will remain, much more than simply a learning tool for young composers, but this is just one of many ways that Finale fit into the Peaksware vision. Finale is a professional tool designed to efficiently and effectively meet the goals of high performing customers, and this is at the core of Peaksware."

Erin Vork"

Voir un communiqué plus détaillé (en anglais) ICI.
Le CEO de Peaksware va apparemment devenir celui de MakeMusic.

• Compléments d'information en anglais ICI (blog de Sibelius !). Interview du nouveau CEO, Gear Fisher. Apparemment, expert en entraînement d'athlètes, mais pas de compétence musicale…
En outre : nouveau président (Andy Stephens), projet de déménager l'équipe de MakeMusic à Boulder, Colorado, et de la modifier partiellement. Michael Good (MusicXML) restera.
Extraits :

“TrainingPeaks is a software company for coaches and athletes to communicate with each other and to help endurance athletes train for an event.

“After 6 years of doing the coding myself, I knew that we were going to have to do something different,” Gear said. “That’s when I became involved with Andy Stephens, who was a customer and was interested in becoming an equity partner. We grew the company over the last 7 years, particularly over the last 3 or 4 years as high-growth period.” Andy Stephens is now chairman of both MakeMusic and Peaksware.

Gear said that “Andy made me aware of his investment in MakeMusic. His vision is to build a broader company with a common goal around developing platforms for deliberate practice. Andy asked me to re-imagine MakeMusic in the way we had built TrainingPeaks. That broader vision is where Peaksware, as the broader corporate entity, will acquire companies in multiple domains — all with a shared strategy of deliberate practice. Our goal is to be absolutely authentic to each domain, whether it’s music, endurance training, or strength and conditioning.”

MakeMusic and TrainingPeaks will continue to run independently, Gear said, but with an ability to “share best practices, resources, and scale. MakeMusic is the brand; that’s what has the brand equity. In the near-term our plans are for as little disruption as possible. In the long-term, our plan is to position the company for the next decade. That is purely our goal: how can we service this industry with the absolute best products possible. We are committed for the long-term,” he said.

Gear said that eventually the MakeMusic offices will move from Eden Prarie, Minnesota, to TrainingPeaks’s home base in Boulder, Colorado. “Right now we’re focused on the back-to-school season and continuing our plans as-is, but we do have plans to move MakeMusic to the same building as TrainingPeaks over the next, say, twelve months,” Gear said."

• Et ces interventions d'Erin Vork (MM) sur le forum américain :

"I can certainly try to address mm's concerns about notation becoming "endurance training." Peaksware is interested in making great products for high performing customers. I'd certainly call Finale users "high performing customers." Coming under the Peaksware umbrella is an opportunity for additional resources and the chance to innovate and deliver better than ever before…

...Finale is a vital part of the vision going forward (and we're talking about a long-term vision). We want to keep Finale world class for professional musicians who depend on it.
We plan to keep Finale world-class, continue evolving it to be the best tool for the pro user.
Erin Vork"

• Lire aussi le communiqué de MakeMusic sur leur blog.