Devoteam expands presence in UK with Ubertas Consulting deal
French-headquartered consulting firm Devoteam has expanded its presence in the UK market with the acquisition of Ubertas Consulting.
Founded in the 1990s, Devoteam is a technology consulting firm with more than 12,000 employees across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Specialising in cloud platforms, cybersecurity, data, among others, Devoteam has guided companies through their digital transformations for over 30 years.
A core pillar of Devoteam’s services is AWS. The firm has been an AWS Premier Consulting Partner for over a decade and currently has around 450 experts in its AWS practice.
Now, the Paris-headquartered professional services firm has significantly strengthened its AWS services – and its presence in the UK – with the bolt-on of Ubertas Consulting. Founded in 2007, Ubertas Consulting is a company specialising in assisting UK-based companies across all industries with migrating and modernising complex or legacy applications on AWS.
According to Richard Andrews, managing director for Devoteam’s UK and Ireland operations, the move for Ubertas Consulting enhances Devoteam’s capabilities to support the SMB to Enterprise segments and “enables these firms to access and manage their cloud capabilities via Devoteam in a cost-effective way that they can’t do alone.”
Ubertas Consulting will integrate within Devoteam over the next few months and transition to the Devoteam brand. “The joining of forces enhances our UK capabilities and will accelerate our growth in the local market.”
Andrews added that the firm is seeing a surge in demand for AWS services, with Devoteam lined up for “significant growth year-on-year” in the AWS domain.
“Key trends we are seeing include how to start an AI journey and, in particular, identifying use cases that can make a difference at scale; migration and modernisation remains a priority including working with a strong partner to manage this effectively; plus optimising cloud spend to contain costs and to contribute to sustainability goals.”
New opportunities
The move comes three years after Stanislas de Bentzmann teamed up with fellow founding shareholder Godefroy de Bentzmann to bring Devoteam back to private hands, having previously traded on the Paris stock exchange. The move was backed by US private equity giant KKR, which funded a major part of the delisting – and has since powered a number of new growth opportunities for the company.
In 2023, the benefits of this move were felt when Devoteam hit two notable milestones: €1 billion in revenues and over 10,000 staff. The next goal is to hit €1.5 billion in revenues by 2025.