Exact develops cloud-based and on-premises software for industries such as accountancy, wholesale distribution, professional services and manufacturing, serving more than 500,000 companies.

The six had worked as freelancers for Grote Beer ("Ursa Major"), one of the first Dutch companies to produce standardized accounting software.

[8] Longview Solutions got sold off to Marlin Equity Partners in July 2014 for an undisclosed amount of money.

In 2004, founder Eduard Hagens returned from ten months of sailing round the world, to find his company reorganized in a decentralized way that did not suit his vision of how Exact should be led.

[19] He then continued to work as CEO, but given the further progression of the symptoms associated with the disorder, Robinson took the decision at the end of 2020 to step back and join the supervisory board as non-executive director.

This Windows NT-based product was designed around a modular architecture dubbed "One-X" that underpinned all of Exact's offerings.

[5] Criticism of this software focused on the fact that the One-X architecture was incompatible with the older Exact software, and that it was tied to Microsoft SQL Server, which was considered too heavy of a database management system for the small computers typically used at Exact's small and medium enterprise customers.

[22] The trial ended later that year, with Exact citing a lack of results and announcing a sole focus on its Dutch and Belgian markets.