A Dozen M&A Deals That Reshaped The Channel In January

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Accenture

Company acquired: solid-serVision

Head count: 100 employees

Annual revenue: undisclosed  

Purchase price: undisclosed

Date of announcement: Jan. 25

Accenture also acquired one of the largest ServiceNow solution providers in Europe, scooping up Germany-based solid-serVision into its cloud unit and adding over 100 ServiceNow specialists, who carry over 130 ServiceNow certifications to Accenture's resource pool.

The acquisition of solid-serVision builds upon a number of Accenture's other ServiceNow-facing acquisitions, including the purchase of Canada's Nashco, which added 25 certified ServiceNow specialists to Accenture's team. More recently it bought Atlanta-based Cloud Sherpas, a move that brought an additional 500 Salesforce.com certified experts to its practice.