IBM Acquires Neudesic, Leading Microsoft Azure Consultancy

IBM announced it has acquired Neudesic, a leading U.S. cloud services consultancy specializing primarily in the Microsoft Azure platform, along with bringing skills in multicloud. This acquisition will significantly expand IBM's portfolio of hybrid multi-cloud services and further advance the company's hybrid cloud and AI strategy.

IBM continues to invest in its hybrid cloud and AI strategy, expanding its cloud services technology, skills, and capabilities to meet the growing demand of clients' hybrid cloud needs. Including Neudesic, IBM has acquired more than 20 companies -- 12 in IBM Consulting alone -- since Arvind Krishna became CEO in April 2020. The news builds upon IBM's prior acquisitions of cloud transformation capabilities, including Sentaca, SXiQ, BoxBoat, Nordcloud, and Taos.

"As one of the leading cloud platforms, Microsoft Azure is key to many of our client's ability to modernize and innovate," said John Granger, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting. "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.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, Neudesic has more than 1,500 cloud and data experts located across the U.S. and in India. It provides a full scope of digital transformation services across advisory, application development, cloud migration, DevOps, integration, data engineering, data visualization, and hyper-automation. As a top Microsoft global solution partner, Neudesic has deep expertise in technology transformation and delivering Microsoft Azure cloud services to clients across the health and life sciences, financial services, energy and utilities, professional services, and retail industries.

"As a Microsoft Gold Partner with multiple Azure competencies, Neudesic is excited to enhance IBM's hybrid cloud strategy with extensive Azure capabilities," said Parsa Rohani, Co-Founder, and CEO, Neudesic. "The combination of our capabilities with IBM's hybrid cloud vision and scale will drive even more impactful innovation for clients.