Huron Consulting Group has acquired Click Commerce, a Beaverton, Ore.-based provider of technology and professional services to academic medical centers and research institutions. Huron hopes the purchase will bolster its higher education and healthcare research technology portfolio for clients.


The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

"The addition of Click expands our research technology footprint and enhances our ability to provide our academic medical center and research institution clients with proven technology solutions," said James H. Roth, CEO of Huron Consulting Group. "Click's software expertise and their extensive knowledge of our health and education market will provide Huron's clients with decades of experience and the tools they need to improve the management of basic research and clinical trials."

Click Commerce specializes in software solutions for research administration and compliance. It has a history of successfully implementing grant management and regulatory compliance projects of sizeable scale and complexity at leading research institutions, academic medical centers and hospitals.

Click Commerce's eResearch Portal is designed to unify multiple research-related business processes into an integrated, comprehensive electronic solution. It bills itself as a leader in large-scale deployments with a client list that includes many of the largest National Institutes of Health-funded research institutions.

"The alignment of Huron's and Click's products and services couldn't be better," said Nick Stier, president of Click Commerce. "We have had the opportunity to work together on shared-client projects in the past, and we know that our complementary skills create very powerful and innovative solutions. Together, we will have a clear path to provide customers with even more significant regulatory and administrative benefits than was possible in the past."