Buyer for Managed Cloud Services company in Netherlands

• Revenue: 2-20M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Netherlands
• Reason for acquisition: The company is a managed cloud services provider in Europe. It has a strategy for growing its operations in Netherlands via acquisitions, therefore the management is open to speaking to interested sellers
• #CFIE ITB081

The buyer is a company backed up by a private equity group that has the means and will to develop further the business and to invest in new projects. The company has extensive knowledge and experience in providing cloud services, its team of more than 100 employees has participated to many projects and is a guarantee of delivering high quality services. The company’s attention is on three key areas which are managed cloud services, smart security and ICT vision. The management of the group is looking to buy a managed cloud services company in Netherlands and is open to speaking to interested sellers.

The buyer has 3 pillars that guarantee the success and they are knowledge development, security and customer focus. Nowadays there is a lot of pressure on two crucial aspects of a business: digitisation and privacy. These two might seem antagonists and difficult to co-exist, but the company brings confidence in the digitalization by offering to clients the security and cloud solutions implementation that bring efficiency and competitiveness. There are also other two elements that might seem to be in conflict, the increasing IT complexity due to the higher demands on the quality and safeness of IT services and the requirements for user-friendliness and easy to use platforms and products. The company helps its clients by reducing IT complexity, by protecting their most important information and data and by reducing the gap between older and new technologies. When the right IT management processes are implemented, customers become more successful and in line with the new development.

The company is experienced in digital transformation, its managed cloud services offer to clients the efficiency, continuity and security they need. Competitive advantages are obtained through the improved quality of IT choices and through the reduction of the costs associated. To establish a robust collaboration, it is necessary that a secure outsourcing strategy to be drawn, a plan that takes into consideration the following elements: organization’s strategy & objectives, HRM, governance, cloud roadmap, transition, secure 24×7 IT management and innovation. Once the outsourcing strategy is fixed, the company will take the control of the administration and management of the IT-infrastructure and will ensure the daily support of end-users and the management of physical workspaces. The team supports customers in choosing the alternatives for the design and the building of the right cloud platform which can be a mix of in-house, proven IT resources, private cloud and public cloud. Digital transformation is advantageous only if it is implemented securely, that’s why the company through its smart security services enables a digital future with controlled risks.

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

• Cloud Managed Services
• Service-desk & Management
• 24×7 Network Services
• Smart Security
• Encryption
• Managed Workspaces
• On-site Support
• Mobile Device Management
• Hybrid Cloud

• The buyer is a managed cloud services provider
• The company uses cloud technologies to increase efficiency
• The company has decided to enlarge its activities in Europe and is looking to buy another company with similar activities and services
• Target companies should be located in Netherlands