Consulting, technology and outsourcing company Accenture is to buy cloud services provider,
Cloud Sherpas. Accenture, which has headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, specializes in “helping organizations move to the cloud to take advantage of a new era of service delivery and flexibility”. The company offers a range of “As-a-Service” solutions and provides “industry-focused cloud services” and employs around 17,000 cloud computing professionals. The acquisition will strengthen Accenture’s enterprise cloud capability.
Established in 2007, Cloud Sherpas offers “cloud advisory and technology services” with a focus on Google, Salesforce and ServiceNow solutions. The company has a global footprint with a presence in the United States, Australia, UAE, the UK, the Philippines, India and New Zealand. Its 1,100 staff will be absorbed by Accenture. By combining Cloud Sherpas staff and capabilities with its own, the company believes in will be able to create “differentiated cloud services across leading and emerging application platforms”.
“We’ve reached a tipping point in cloud as our clients rapidly adopt cloud solutions,” explained the Chief Technology Officer at Accenture, Paul Daugherty. “Accenture’s Cloud First agenda is a game-changer that offers transformational cloud services to help clients move their businesses to the cloud and achieve significant business results more quickly. I look forward to welcoming the talented professionals of Cloud Sherpas to Accenture.”
“We are thrilled to be joining forces with Accenture. Cloud Sherpas was born in the cloud and we are perfectly aligned with Accenture’s Cloud First agenda” added Cloud Sherpas’ Chief Executive Officer, David Northington. “The combination of our capabilities and experience with Accenture’s scale, broad industry expertise and global cloud application capabilities represents a unique and compelling opportunity for our clients, for our people and for the future of cloud technology.”
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