Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, announces it has entered into exclusive negotiations with the shareholders of Edifixio, a French cloud and Salesforce consulting and integration company, to acquire it. The acquisition would further strengthen Atos’ position as a leader in Salesforce and Public Cloud services in the French market by bringing experienced consultants to the Atos team.

Consistent with its targeted acquisition strategy, the operation will expand Atos’ client portfolio and established expertise in Cloud, Salesforce and Application Transformation with an extensive set of skills developed by Edifixio’s team of 370 consultants working for blue-chip companies across 4 countries - France, India, Tunisia and the US.

Edifixio combines a tailored transformation approach with over 20 years of expertise in designing, developing and integrating solutions within the Cloud environment based on open source and third-party technologies, in particular Salesforce. The company has a recognized, solid track-record in the French market and is a leading Salesforce Gold Partner, Amazon Web Services Premier Consulting Partner, Azure Gold Partner, IBM Gold Business Partner, and an open source actor, with 472 certifications overall.

“Cloud and Salesforce continue to be driving forces of growth for Atos and we’re excited to unite our enhanced digital services development and delivery capabilities with Edifixio’s tailored approach to Cloud”, said Yannick Tricaud, Chief Executive Officer, Atos in Southern Europe. “As more and more companies move towards digital business models, they look to adopt an agnostic Cloud-model and the acquisition of Edifixio will strengthen our positioning as their trusted partner.”