Strengthening our cloud offerings & advancing our alliance strategy

While the phrase “digital transformation” may be a buzzword that we’ve heard all too often these past few years -- from executives, pundits, analysts, reporters and more -- it’s still top of mind for many business leaders. And with the pandemic having forced many companies to quickly move to a virtual environment with minimal to no disruption, it’s even more important today.

Transformation is today’s work to secure tomorrow’s relevance. As we embark on this journey with our clients, cloud technology is front and center as they seek to digitize, automate, and innovate. Cloud-based offerings continue to be an area of accelerated demand, even since before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; spending on cloud infrastructure rose 37% to $29 billion during Q12020. This increase underscores the urgency for scalable, secure, reliable, cost-effective off-premises technology services. 

In an effort to create more agile offerings for our clients, I’m pleased to announce a new investment to strengthen our cloud capabilities and our alliance strategy: PwC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of EagleDream Technologies, an all around player in cloud technology and a Premier Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network (APN). We expect this strategic acquisition to help drive growth for the firm, now and in the years to come.

We’ll be welcoming amazing talent in the cloud transformation space, including multiple APN Ambassadors, into the PwC family. Combined with our existing capabilities and expertise, this allows us to strengthen our culture of excellence and better help our clients innovate, disrupt and operationalize their businesses.

We look forward to closing the deal, but we wanted to share this exciting news now as it marks a transformative moment for PwC, our people and the clients we serve. 

To our new colleagues from EagleDream: welcome to PwC! We’re excited for what the future holds together.