IBM to acquire Rego Consulting's Adobe Workfront business

  • IBM (NYSE: IBM ) is advancing its hybrid cloud and AI strategy with plans to acquire the Adobe Workfront consulting unit and assets from Rego Consulting.
  • Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
  • The deal represents the 17th overall acquisition for IBM - and the ninth acquisition in cloud and AI services - since Arvind Krishna took over as IBM CEO in April 2020. The technology firm has been investing heavily to strengthen its hybrid cloud and AI strategy and capabilities, with a focus on acquiring high-value consultative services.
  • Rego has been recognized as the Adobe Workfront Partner of the year over the past two years and has achieved Adobe Workfront Specialization. The Rego team being acquired by IBM has wide expertise in end-to-end Workfront services, delivering strategy formulation to implementation to management and support to Fortune 500 companies.
  • With this acquisition, IBM expands its rich Adobe service offering to meet the rising client demand for experience-led business transformation backed by intelligent workflows. Upon deal closing, the Adobe Workfront business of Rego will join the growing Adobe practice within IBM iX - IBM Consulting's customer and experience transformation group.

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