Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Computech, which has IBM Premier Business Partner status, reports annual revenue of around $35m and employs 65 people. The company delivers IBM products and services.
It will become a subsidiary of Logicalis, which is a division of South Africa-based Datatec Ltd, specializing in the delivery of high-performance systems for small- and mid-sized firms. Computech’s technical focus on IBM’s technology stack, notably its server line (System i) and storage software, will extend Logicalis’ services portfolio beyond other platforms like HP, Cisco and EMC.
With Computech personnel and revenue absorbed, Logicalis will push its annual revenue past $500m and employ over 500 consultants in the US. It also boosts Logicalis’ presence in the Midwestern US States, including key markets like Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
The transaction is expected to close by the end of this year, by which time Computech will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Logicalis.
Separately, Logicalis’ European division has also snapped up a small German technology outfit called re:solution GmbH (Reichart Network Solutions).
Bloomfield Hills, Illinois-based Logicalis continues to show its aggressive acquisition streak that is part of a strategy to beef up its HP and IBM services and consulting businesses.
The acquisitions announced on Wednesday bring the total number of deals struck this year to four, adding to five acquisitions made in the previous financial year.
In January this year, it snapped up HP’s US-based enterprise reseller business unit, Avnet, Last year, it bought HP storage partner Hawke Systems and two IBM partners, Notability Solutions and IBM Unix reseller TBC. All three are UK based firms.
Johannesburg-based parent firm Datatec is looking to bounce back from a couple of years of losses and layoffs and is eyeing more acquisitions in Europe and the US in the services sector.
