Accenture looks to acquire French Amazon Web Services Consultancy Gekko.
“Aligned with our development strategy, the acquisition of Gekko would be another significant addition because it would give clients more support for public cloud options. Gekko would also be a major opportunity to accelerate our growth strategy in France, Accenture’s advantage is our ability to keep pace with evolving customer expectations. Gekko would bring key cloud, AI and DevOps skills and would help us serve a greater and more diverse range of clients in France and the broader European market.”
Olivier Girard, Accenture’s Geographic Unit managing director for France and Benelux
Through this acquisition Gekko’s deep skills in AWS with Accenture’s industry knowledge and experience will provide highly differentiated cloud services.