NTT will acquire Centerstance, a U.S.-based consulting company specializing in cloud integration projects, for an undisclosed sum.
Centerstance is a platinum cloud alliance partner for Salesforce.com. The company is based in Portland, Oregon. The company helps clients to identify and move key business processes to the cloud leveraging the Salesforce.com platform. Centerstance has completed over 2,000 deployments for clients of all sizes, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.
NTT said the acquisition fits into its strategic focues on Cloud Computing.
“NTT is focused on becoming the leading partner of choice to help clients transform their business as they move to the Cloud. Through this M&A, NTT will be able to strengthen its consulting capability and migration capability which are necessary to achieve a cloud migration supporting customer needs.” commented President and CEO of NTT, Mr. Hiroo Unoura. “Additionally, it will be a driving power for NTT to approach global cloud business especially overseas as a pioneer providing cloud service immediately taking in leading edge technologies without being bounded by existing systems and technologies.”