Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Nextira, a Austin, Texas-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Partner that uses AWS to deliver cloud-native innovation, predictive analytics and immersive experiences for their clients.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Nextira’s services and solutions will bolster Accenture Cloud First’s set of engineering capabilities and help clients take advantage of a full continuum of cloud capabilities and tools. Nextira’s nearly 70 employees will join the Accenture AWS Business Group, a team of more than 20,000 certified professionals dedicated to accelerating value on AWS to maximize enterprise-wide transformation at speed and scale.
Founded in 2008 and led by Jason Cutrer, CEO, Nextira builds cloud-based solutions and services with engineering skills, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and data analytics that enable clients to design, build, launch and optimize high-performance computing environments. In addition, its proprietary Studio in the Cloud solution on AWS provides clients with a virtual environment to develop and render 3D objects using the latest rendering platforms.
Within Accenture, Nextira’s platform engineering expertise and AI and machine learning services will enable AI capabilities to be directly embedded into the rapidly growing number of applications and services built that are on AWS.
