Sentaca (Sentaca Consulting Canada Ltd.)

History

2022: Acquisition by IBM

On February 1, 2022, it became known that the corporation IBM announced the acquisition the Canadian of Sentaca, a provider consulting of services and solutions for. telecommunication providers Financial details of the transaction are not disclosed. Thanks to this deal, IBM plans to significantly expand its hybrid offerings. clouds

IBM acquired Sentaca, a provider of cloud telecommunications solutions
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As a result of the deal, the entire Sentaca staff goes to work in the IBM Consulting division, which IBM wants to turn into one of the most prominent system integrators.

The choice of Sentaca is dictated by the company's expertise in such areas as the development and optimization of applications for cloud environments, networks of future generations and automation.

Sentaca will retain a certain independence and in the future will conduct business under the brand name "Sentaca, IBM." Her current leadership will maintain its position.

For IBM, this is the 21st acquisition since January 2020, when Arvind Krishna became the executive director of the corporation. 11 of these deals are just IBM Consulting, a division that until 2021 was called IBM Global Business Services. This division specializes in strategic consulting, IT infrastructure implementation and management services.^[1]

Such an active purchase of third-party firms indicates that IBM has formed a new, large-scale and long-term strategy for business transformation - primarily regarding the IBM Consulting division, "says Alexei Vodyasov, technical director of SEQ. - A significant part of these acquisitions is aimed precisely at expanding the supply related to hybrid clouds and consulting. It is hardly a mistake to say that IBM claims world leadership in this area.

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