7. Accenture

Target company: Nashco

Headcount: 25 employees

Annual revenue: Not disclosed

Purchase price: Not disclosed

Date of announcement: Nov. 10

Accenture ramped up its ServiceNow capabilities in North America in respond to growing acceptance of the "as-a-service" model by scooping up Cochrane, Alberta-based Nashco.

Nashco was tucked into the global ServiceNow practice of Dublin, Ireland-based Accenture, No. 2 on the CRN SP 500, which already had 800 certified professionals and 1,500 practitioners dedicated to the ServiceNow platform.

Nashco was founded in 1993 and been exclusively focused on ServiceNow's IT service management suite since 2008. That focus has allowed Nascho to becoming the leading ServiceNow partner in Canada, Accenture said.