April 04, 2022
Accenture Completes Acquisition of AFD.TECH
PARIS; April 1, 2022 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has finished its acquisition of AFD.TECH, an impartial community services and products corporate that specialize in community engineering, operations and services and products. Accenture had introduced its intent to procure AFD.TECH on December 15, 2021. Monetary phrases of the transaction weren’t disclosed.
AFD.TECH’s group of greater than 1,600 extremely professional pros joins Accenture, bringing multidisciplinary experience throughout engineering, design, deployment and operation of subsequent era networks, reminiscent of 5G and fiber.
The experience of AFD.TECH’s group mixed with Accenture’s Cloud First features supplies a vast spectrum of confirmed practices, operational excellence and human ingenuity to assist shoppers pressure complete transformation throughout their more than a few networks.
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