Buyer for managed IT services provider in Europe

• Revenue: 2-30M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The company is a large provider of managed IT services. It has a strategy for growing its operations in Europe via acquisitions, therefore the management is open to speaking to interested sellers
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The buyer is a well-recognized independent provider of cloud and managed services in Europe and globally. The company has a long history of doing acquisitions and this resulted in large boosting of its revenues. By following this strategy, the group came to register annual revenues of more than 300M Euro and to employ more than 2000 people. The management of the group is looking to expand the business in Europe by buying another enterprise. Target companies should bring additional Security, DevOps, Systems Integration and IT services capabilities to the buyer.

The buyer is a large managed IT services provider in Europe having global operations. It offers hosting, security, networks and communications managed and consulting services. Its employees are specialized in migrating, running applications, infrastructure services and offering support 24/7. The company is present on the market for more than 20 years and has approximately 40 data centres in more than 8 countries in the world. Its main focus is on European market for which it offers agile, flexible managed infrastructure services, as well as outsourcing of data centre capabilities. Among technologies used can be mentioned Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cisco, Vmware and BT wholesale.

When it comes to managed hosting, the company has expertise to design, build, manage and continually evolve the right hosting service that matches the customers’ particular needs. Examples of applications that can be hosted are database, eCommerce, corporate website, mobile apps, extranet, desktop and communications applications. The benefits of using the managed hosting from the company are that customer can choose the level of the management that is right for him and he can concentrate his team and attention on his business and not worry about hosting. Some features of the managed hosting solution are: flexible management options, tailored approach, extensive shared platforms, data centres with floor cooling, power and physical security, VMware hypervisor and network capabilities such as WAN, private network, security, internet access and DoS protection. The solution has ISO 27001 certification.

For a business is very important how applications and data are used and managed because this is related to the well-functioning of all the business operations and departments of an organization. The expectations towards application performance, security and availability are very high and keeping running continuously all these applications requires skilled workforce, systems and solid processes. The company helps its customers to focus on their core business by taking care of all IT managed services. The company designs, builds, manages and evolves IT infrastructures in the same time ensuring clear SLA guarantees and terms of service.

The buyer is looking to acquire a company that operates in the same activity and has similar services such as:

• Multi-Cloud & Cloud Migration
• AWS & Microsoft Azure
• Managed Hosting
• Managed Database
• Colocation
• Disaster Recovery
• Enterprise Backup
• Cloud Security
• Network Performance Monitoring
• Internet Connectivity
• Contact Centre solutions
• Email, Email Archiving & Collaboration
• Consultancy

• The buyer is a well-recognized provider of cloud and managed IT services
• The company has decided to enlarge its activities in Europe and is looking to buy another company with similar activities
• Target companies should bring additional power and IT services capabilities to the buyer