Total Specific Solutions, a vertical market software provider, completed a $71m merger with Topicus, a software company in Deventer, Netherlands. "We see TSS as the right partner to fulfil our further growth ambitions in Europe. The intended future collaboration contains a wealth of opportunities for our colleagues, customers and propositions. Both Topicus and TSS have a strong culture of entrepreneurship and proven craftsmanship, combined with great focus. The mutual additional benefits lie in the bundling of healthy business operations, effective and customer-oriented services in combination with innovative strength," Daan Dijkhuizen, Topicus CEO.