Newly formed Sovos Compliance has acquired Boulder-based ShipCompliant, a compliance and tax software publisher for the alcohol beverage market. Sovos was formed in February when its owner, Vista Equity Partners, welded together TaxWare, Convey Compliance Systems and VAT Resource. We've been talking about the impact of private equity and this shows one battlefield in indirect tax; acquisition of specialized vendors. Sovos and ShipCompliant will integrate their compliance products.