{"id":875875,"date":"2021-01-12T05:46:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T09:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/business-strategy\/digital-transformation\/358287\/ibm-buys-salesforce-consultancy-firm-7summits"},"modified":"2021-01-12T05:46:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T09:46:28","slug":"ibm-buys-salesforce-consultancy-firm-7summits","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platodata.io\/plato-data\/ibm-buys-salesforce-consultancy-firm-7summits\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM buys Salesforce consultancy firm 7Summits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
IBM has announced<\/a> plans to acquire 7Summits, a consultancy firm that specialises in projects based on software as a service (SaaS)<\/a> applications from Salesforce.<\/p>\n IBM said the deal, the financial terms of which have not yet been disclosed, “is part of a broader IBM investment strategy in services and ecosystem partnerships to enable our clients’ digital transformations through hybrid cloud<\/a> and artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI)”.<\/p>\n Milwaukee-based 7Summits was founded in 2009 and designs and develops digital experiences with Salesforce<\/a> software in order to help business improve their sales using customer relationship management (CRM)<\/a> tools.<\/p>\n The company, which has 66 employees across Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Austin and San Francisco, will join IBM\u2019s Global Business Services\u2019 Salesforce division, which IBM says is facing \u201crising client demand\u201d \u2013 no doubt fuelled by the global COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n “7Summits is part of a broader IBM investment strategy in services and ecosystem partnerships to enable our clients’ digital transformations through hybrid cloud and AI,” said Mark Foster, senior vice president of IBM Services.<\/p>\n “Salesforce plays a critical role in transforming customer, employee and partner lifecycle processes into intelligent workflows<\/a> that deliver accelerated business outcomes.”<\/p>\n