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Acquisitions
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Acquisitions  
Acquisitions

4. Acquisitions

Berkeley Transportation Systems, Inc.

        In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012 ("Fiscal 2012"), we acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Berkeley Transportation Systems, Inc. ("BTS"). BTS was a privately-held company based in Berkeley, California, which specialized in transportation performance measurement. BTS' Performance Measurement System leverages its real-time data collection, diagnostic, fusion and warehousing platform to aggregate and compute performance measures. This information is used to analyze how a transportation system is performing based on pre-determined measures of effectiveness such as stops, delays and travel time. Our primary reasons for the acquisition were to add key technologies to complement our iPeMS solutions and strengthen our performance measurement and management initiative as a whole.

        Our consolidated financial statements for Fiscal 2017, Fiscal 2016 and Fiscal 2015 include the results of operations of BTS. On or shortly after the acquisition date, we paid a total of approximately $840,000 in cash to the shareholders of BTS. On December 17, 2012, the Company entered into an amendment to the BTS stock purchase agreement, which modified certain earn out provisions, and as a result, the Company paid $700,000 in cash to the former BTS shareholders for achievement of those modified earn-out provisions in our fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013 ("Fiscal 2013"). The amendment did not have a material impact on previous estimated amounts accrued in connection with the earn-out provisions. This payment completed the Company's obligation under the earn- out provisions of the agreement. During the third quarter of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2014 ("Fiscal 2014"), the Company paid $250,000 pursuant to certain holdback provisions. Additionally, the Company paid the BTS shareholders approximately $336,000 in November 2014 pursuant to certain deferred payment provisions. These payments completed all of the Company's obligations under the purchase agreement.