Accenture Announces Intent to Acquire BENEXT, Independent French Product Management Consulting Company
Summary
Over the past 24 months, Accenture has made a number of strategic investments to expand and enhance its Cloud First capabilities. Olivier Girard, market unit lead for Accenture France & Benelux, said “Together with BENEXT, we would bring more specialized skills to fulfill the growing demand for effective product management and agile methods by leveraging the use of the latest technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence, data and DevOps. The unique combination of our product management, organizational and technology skills would generate more value to the French market in particular for our clients in the public sector, financial services, and the media industry.” David Robert, founder and president of BENEXT, said “We are excited about this opportunity based on our history and would accelerate our strategy. Words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “likely,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “projects,” “believes,” “estimates,” “positioned,” “outlook” and similar expressions are used to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.