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Accenture Acquires Supply Chain Consulting Firm Blue Horseshoe

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Accenture Acquires Supply Chain Consulting Firm Blue Horseshoe

Accenture has acquired supply chain management and strategy consulting firm Blue Horseshoe, which partners closely with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform and Oracle NetSuite. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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AlixPartners advises restaurant group Pho

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AlixPartners advises restaurant group Pho

AlixPartners, the global consulting firm, has advised leading Vietnamese street food restaurant group, Pho, on the successful sale of a significant majority stake in its business to Rising Stars, a dedicated restaurant fund run by TriSpan, the global private equity firm.

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Deloitte Canada acquires Clockwork to strengthen SAP Consultancy Business

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Deloitte Canada acquires Clockwork to strengthen SAP Consultancy Business

Deloitte Canada is acquiring systems, applications, and products (SAP) consulting firm Clockwork, as it looks to bolster its SAP consultancy business in Canada. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Revonic acquired by global digital agency Valtech

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Revonic acquired by global digital agency Valtech

Global digital agency Valtech is acquiring Dubai-based digital-experience design specialist, Revonic from Metdist Limited, a family-owned, private investment vehicle.

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IBM and SAP Collaborate to Accelerate Cloud Adoption for Financial Institutions

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IBM and SAP Collaborate to Accelerate Cloud Adoption for Financial Institutions

IBM and SAP are forming a partnership that will allow SAP to onboard finance and data management solutions to the IBM Cloud for Financial Services, helping companies address the industry's stringent compliance, security, and resiliency requirements while supporting business transformation and innovation for financial services institutions.

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The Consulting Business Booms Just as Consultants Disappear

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The Consulting Business Booms Just as Consultants Disappear

McDonald’s isn’t the only company looking hard for workers these days -- so is McKinsey.

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Deloitte Makes Fifth Cybersecurity Acquisition In 2021

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Deloitte Makes Fifth Cybersecurity Acquisition In 2021

Global professional services provider Deloitte & Touche unveiled its acquisition of aeCyberSolutions, the industrial cybersecurity business of Applied Engineering Solutions, or aeSolutions.

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Exton Consulting is now part of Accenture

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Exton Consulting is now part of Accenture

Accenture has completed its acquisition of Exton Consulting, a French consulting firm providing banking strategy support to financial services clients across Europe.

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ZS elects Pratap Khedkar to CEO

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ZS elects Pratap Khedkar to CEO

Global professional services firm ZS announced that Pratap Khedkar, head of the firm’s global biopharmaceuticals and healthcare ecosystem practices, has been elected to CEO by the firm’s leaders.

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BCG launches its BCG Platinion subsidiary in Morocco

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BCG launches its BCG Platinion subsidiary in Morocco

Global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has launched its technology advisory subsidiary BCG Platinion in Morocco.

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Meet the woman now leading McKinsey France: Clarisse Magnin

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Meet the woman now leading McKinsey France: Clarisse Magnin

Global strategy and management consulting firm McKinsey & Company has appointed a new country leader for its French organisation: Clarisse Magnin.

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Accenture Buys Lexta

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Accenture Buys Lexta

Accenture acquired Lexta, a Berlin, Germany-based consulting firm specialized in IT benchmarking and IT sourcing advisory.

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Can ERP and MES Systems Keep Up With IIoT?

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Can ERP and MES Systems Keep Up With IIoT?

IoT systems today are sifting through volumes of data to bring insight for processes like enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution.

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Accenture To Acquire Google Cloud Premier Partner As M&A Soars

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Accenture To Acquire Google Cloud Premier Partner As M&A Soars

Accenture’s thirst for acquisitions to extend its global IT services reach continued today with the disclosure of its plan to purchase Google Cloud Premier partner Wabion.

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PwC announces new strategy: The New Equation

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PwC announces new strategy: The New Equation

PwC unveiled The New Equation, PwC’s landmark global strategy which responds to fundamental changes in the world, including technological disruption, climate change, fractured geopolitics, and the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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KPMG's banking audits not up to scratch, says UK watchdog

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KPMG's banking audits not up to scratch, says UK watchdog

KPMG's bank audits needed improvements for an "unacceptable" third year running and the accounting firm will be closely monitored,

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Kea & Partners lands investment to double its business by 2026

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Kea & Partners lands investment to double its business by 2026

French strategy and management consulting firm Kea & Partners has raised €23 million from investors as part of its strategy to accelerate its growth and double its business within the coming five years.

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SAP Loses Ground to Oracle in Cloud ERP Despite S/4HANA Cloud Up 39%

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SAP Loses Ground to Oracle in Cloud ERP Despite S/4HANA Cloud Up 39%

While SAP is rightfully proud that its S/4HANA Cloud ERP business jumped 39% in Q2, Oracle’s competing product grew even faster at 46% for the quarter ended May 31.

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Nokia teams up with consulting firm CGI to create ‘5G lab’ in London

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Nokia teams up with consulting firm CGI to create ‘5G lab’ in London

CGI already has an ‘innovation centre’ in the central London skyscraper known as the walkie-talkie building, so it looks like Nokia is helping it create a 5G zone within that.

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PwC to fast-track pay rises, expand bonuses amid war for talent

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PwC to fast-track pay rises, expand bonuses amid war for talent

PwC announced that it would move to increase staff pay faster between promotions and expand bonus eligibility from 40 to 80 per cent of the firm’s staff as part of a broader overhaul of staff benefits introduced to better retain, and attract, top talent.

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