Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Sentia’s businesses
in the Netherlands, Belgium and Bulgaria. With headquarters in the
Netherlands, the Sentia group is a leading cloud consulting company
that manages private and public cloud migrations and provides
digital-experience monitoring services.
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Accenture has agreed to acquire Sentia’s
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With more than 500 certifications, Sentia’s team of
approximately 310 cloud specialists in the Netherlands, Belgium and
Bulgaria will join Accenture Cloud First. Terms of the acquisition
were not disclosed.
The acquisition expands Accenture’s Cloud First capabilities to
provide end-to-end cloud infrastructure services across the cloud
continuum of public, private and sovereign clouds. Today’s news
arrives as the plethora of cloud options create more complexity for
organizations as they navigate different architectures, burgeoning
innovations and changing regulations.
"Total enterprise reinvention starts with a solid digital core.
To activate this digital core, organizations need to build a
scalable, fit-for-purpose cloud foundation that provides the
strategic agility they need to ensure their resilience and future
competitiveness,” said Karthik Narain, global lead for Accenture
Cloud First. “Adding Sentia’s specialists will enhance Accenture
Cloud First’s migration and modernization services aimed at getting
clients’ workloads to their optimal location on the cloud continuum
— from public to edge and everything in between.”
“With Sentia, we are expanding our strategic infrastructure
engineering and emerging technologies capabilities across Europe,
especially in the Netherlands and Belgium,” said Roy Ikink, lead
for Accenture Cloud First Netherlands. “The Sentia team brings
valuable experience with sovereign cloud strategies designed to
help clients address local regulations and requirements around data
privacy, access and control.”
Sentia currently provides cloud advisory and delivery services
spanning hybrid and multi cloud strategy; cloud transformation; and
migration, among others. The company’s main cloud control and
optimization services include cloud managed services, cloud
security services, and cloud infrastructure migration. Sentia also
offers unique digital experience monitoring services that analyze,
track and predict enterprise applications and cloud services from
an end user’s perspective.
Ian Zein, Sentia’s CEO said, “We’ve built Sentia into a leading
managed cloud infrastructure transformation provider known for our
‘extreme ownership,’ customer intimacy and operational excellence
in complex (often regulated) environments. Now we can take our deep
experience in both public and private cloud transformation to help
Accenture clients operate with greater speed and achieve stronger
business outcomes at scale.”
Note: Sentia’s Danish business is not part of the acquisition
and will continue as an independent business under the Sentia
brand, supported by Waterland Private Equity as main shareholder.
Completion of the acquisition is subject to customary closing
conditions, including receipt of applicable regulatory
approvals.
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