RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – IBM is buying another company, the U.S. cloud services consultancy Neudesic.
Neudesic specializes in providing consulting services in the Microsoft Azure platform, a statement from IBM noted. The company is based in Irvine, California, and has eight other U.S. locations, according to its website.
The company announced it had bought Australian firm Envizi last month.
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Investing in hybrid cloud
IBM noted that it continues to invest in the firm’s hybrid cloud strategy. It has acquired more than 20 companies since Arvind Krishna became CEO in April 2020, including recent acquisitions of Sentaca, SXiQ, BoxBoat, Nordcloud and Taos.
“As one of the leading cloud platforms, Microsoft Azure is key to many of our clients’ ability to modernize and innovate,” said John Granger, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting, in the company’s statement. “Neudesic adds deep Azure cloud, data engineering and data analytics expertise to accelerate our clients’ hybrid cloud journeys. This builds upon IBM’s prior acquisitions of cloud transformation capabilities last year.”
Neudesic employs more than 1,500 in the United States and in India, IBM said. Those cloud and data consultants will join IBM Consulting as a part of the deal, IBM noted.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The two companies signed a definitive agreement that led to the acquisition in IBM’s fourth quarter 2021, IBM said.
IBM buys consulting firm – its 9th deal this year – adding to cloud services offensive
