Accenture announces its intention to acquire Linkbynet, a leading French cloud service provider

The acquisition will enhance Accenture’s cloud-first features to support customers’ cloud migration and business transformation

Accenture (New York Stock Exchange:Acetonitrile) Has announced its intention to acquire Linkbynet, This is a leading French cloud service provider, specializing in cloud optimization and hosting services, cloud conversion and cloud security. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Founded in 2000, Linkbynet is a cloud-native solution provider headquartered in Saint-Denis, France, and has offices in Belgium, Canada, China, France, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Singapore and Vietnam. The addition of the company’s team of more than 900 highly skilled professionals will receive 400 certifications from major cloud providers (such as Alibaba, Amazon, Google and Microsoft), which will further enhance the company’s global capabilities. Accenture Cloud First.

“The acquisition of Linkbynet will be another strategic step to strengthen our strength Accenture Cloud First Accenture Cloud First Global Head Karthik Narain said: “Linkbynet’s talented team will bring deep cloud and engineering specialization, managed services, advanced technical tools and cyber security intelligence.”

Supported by a three-year investment of US$3 billion, Accenture Cloud First It is a multi-service team composed of 70,000 cloud professionals, providing unparalleled depth and breadth of cloud expertise, industry cloud solutions, ecosystem partner capabilities and assets to help customers obtain scale and scale from the cloud Greater value.

Olivier Girard, Marketing Director of Accenture France and the Benelux Economic Union, said: “The entire industry is not only facing the challenge of reshaping the customer experience and core products, but also conceiving new business models for the future. Rich experience in consulting and digital transformation In terms of cloud implementation, security, management and optimization, the Linkbynet team brings vital skills that will help Accenture customers adopt emerging technologies and expand them across the enterprise to operate in a challenging business environment Achieve strategic agility.”

Patrick and Stéphane Aisenberg, the co-founders of Linkbynet, said: “We are honored to be one of the first cloud-native companies in France, and a pioneer in the synergy model between technology transformation (cloud adoption), security and cloud hosting services. Accenture and Linkbynet A unique work culture, values ​​and technical expertise will enable us to better support our clients’ digital projects across multiple departments, while providing their organizations with the same excellent service levels and flexibility that they expect. Opportunities to join Accenture , To help the company reimagine its business and rebuild it in different ways to benefit everyone, including customers, employees and society as a whole.”

In the past 24 months, Accenture has made a number of strategic investments to expand and enhance its cloud service capabilities.These include acquisitions in France ek sub In June 2020 and Siruseo In June 2019, recently acquired in Europe Eden House (United Kingdom), unlimited (UK) and Signey (Sweden).

Accenture invested nearly US$1.5 billion globally in fiscal year 2020 and made 34 acquisitions to acquire key skills and capabilities in strategic, high-growth markets.

The acquisition requires prior consultation with the relevant working committee and approval of the relevant competent authority, and must comply with customary closing conditions.

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