Logicalis has made another acquisition in the form of IBM Cognos (NYSE:IBM) partner Inca Software.
Last year Inca achieved IBM Premier Business Partner status, and in December won IBM EMEA’s Business Partner Excellence Award, in recognition of its success in the market and for its business analytics solutions.
Says Tom Kelly, MD of Logicalis UK: “Logicalis’ acquisition of Inca Software will open a unique stream of expertise in analytics to customers, and signals our intention to bring differentiated business outcome solutions to market. Our expertise in business collaboration will be combined with Inca’s expertise in business analytics to help our customers become smarter organisations.”
Marcus Hanke, CEO of Inca Software parent company, Avisen Plc (LON:AVI), adds, “We believe Logicalis, with its unique positioning and services offering, is the only IBM partner that can provide Inca with a platform for its next phase of growth. Over the last six months we’ve experienced an increased demand for cloud-based services and, following the deal, Inca, with access to Logicalis core offerings, will be able to provide game changing IBM Cognos cloud-based services to its midmarket customers.”
Kelly continues: “The acquisition of Inca strengthens our strategic partnership with IBM as we recognise, like they do, the growing importance our customers place on creating incremental value from their existing data.
“Logicalis UK’s unique triple play capabilities in analytics, collaboration and cloud computing positions us as one of the few organisations able to execute on the transformation necessities of UK businesses and government. Our offerings of business analytics as a solution and business analytics as a cloud service will be a unique and compelling proposition to our customers.”
“Business analytics and optimisation tools are becoming easier for organisations of any size to use. Combined with the accessibility increasingly afforded by cloud computing, this simplicity means more mid-sized companies want to take advantage of the capabilities business analytics can offer them,” comments David Cornick, VP for business partners and midmarket, IBM North-east Europe.
“With Logicalis UK and Inca, both IBM Premier Business Partners, joining forces, their combined expertise will be able to deliver real insight and value to mid-sized companies and UK public sector. Analytics and cloud represent a growing opportunity for IBM and our business partners and will be key drivers of our success in the coming years.”
In May 2010, Logicalis opened its second UK datacentre and has since invested significantly in computing and storage cloud services. It expects to leverage these investments to provide a new range of cloud and hosted business analytics services.
The acquisition will complete on the April 1, 2011.
