Accenture to acquire Cloud firm Imaginea

Accenture today announced that it will acquire Imaginea, a cloud-native product, and platform engineering services company. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 2012, California based Imaginea offers cloud product and platform engineering skills.

Imaginea's expertise across leading cloud platforms helps Accenture accelerate innovation across diverse industries, drive complex change and create lasting value, notes the announcement.

Global lead for Accenture Cloud First, Karthik Narain, said, "Imaginea will further enhance the global capabilities of Accenture Cloud First, which was created to help clients across every industry become ‘cloud-first’ businesses. Cloud is an essential foundation of digital transformation. Leveraging cloud native capabilities helps companies transform experiences, harness advances in technologies like AI, robotics, edge computing and 5G, and break the limits on productivity and innovation to create sustainable value."

Co-founder of Imaginea, Vijay Pullur, said, "Our unique combination of cloud native and product engineering skills is why clients seek out Imaginea to help them solve complex problems by unlocking the power of new technologies. Imaginea is excited to join Accenture in helping companies reimagine business and rebuild differently for the benefit of all — from their customers to our people to society at large."

Accenture recently launched the Accenture Cloud First, which is a multi-service level group of more than 50000+ cloud employees focused highly on helping enterprise customers migrate to the cloud.

The latest acquisition brings around 1,350 cloud professionals to Accenture. These professionals bring skillsets in full-stack with cloud data and cloud modernization skills across multiple platforms from Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. 

This month, Accenture also acquired cloud-native and agile development firm, Wolox.  Accenture intends to integrate Wolox offerings across its services such as strategy and consulting, operations and technology.