Accenture completes a couple of acquisitions

by James · September 5, 2022

Accenture, a developer of digital, cloud and security services, has completed a pair of acquisitions.

It has bought Sentia’s businesses in the Netherlands, Belgium and Bulgaria. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Sentia is a cloud consulting and delivery services platform, supporting hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, cloud transformation and migration.

The deal adds around 300 cloud specialists to Accenture Cloud First, and strengthens Accenture’s capabilities to provide end-to-end cloud infrastructure services across public, private and sovereign clouds.

Accenture Cloud First global head Karthik Narain said: “Accenture Cloud First’s priority is to help clients with total enterprise renewal by building their digital core, optimizing operations and accelerating growth.

“Adding the Sentia team expands our migration and modernization capabilities, further equipping us to help enterprises optimize their workloads across the cloud continuum.”

The other acquisition Accenture completed was of carbon emissions and climate change consultancy Carbon Intelligence.

Carbon Intelligence is a carbon and climate change strategy consultancy focused on helping global businesses understand their overall carbon footprint and how to reduce it. They can do this through science-based target initiative strategies that lead to transformational rethinking of customers’ business models and value chains, it is claimed.

With the acquisition, Accenture will add 160 professionals to its team. This deal is Accenture’s fifth sustainability-focused acquisition in the past year. The other acquisitions are Greenfish in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, akzente in Germany, Avieco in the UK and Zestgroup in the Netherlands.

Accenture’s global Sustainability Services leader and chief executive officer Peter Lacy said: “Carbon Intelligence extends our expertise in carbon strategy and delivery, building on the insights of our recently established global carbon intelligence network.”

“We continue to deepen our global capabilities in sustainability – one of the forces that companies must harness to lead in the next decade – in areas critical to the energy transition. Alongside this, we are building 360-degree value for our stakeholders with our growing number of partners, venture capital and, most importantly, our customers.”

Accenture recently released a report that found up to $170 billion in insurance premiums could be at risk over the next five years due to bad claims experiences.