01732 759725 14 NEWS : RESELLERS Integrity360 grows European footprint Integrity360 is enhancing its position as an independent cybersecurity services specialist and increasing its European footprint with the acquisition of Caretower. With offices in London and Sofia, Bulgaria and reported sales of circa £28m in 2021, Caretower expands the group’s customer base to 1,500 organisations and increases projected group sales this year to £70m. Ian Brown, Executive Chairman of Integrity360, said: “The enhanced group is now clearly positioned as the leading independent cybersecurity services specialist throughout the UK and Ireland. With over 300 employees, including 200 cybersecurity engineers, analysts, consultants and specialists, the group provides businesses with a one-stop-shop for all their cybersecurity needs.” Digital Space partners with CyberQ Managed service provider Digital Space is strengthening its cybersecurity portfolio through a new partnership with CyberQ Group, an award-winning provider of cyber solutions and consultancy to enterprises and mid-market businesses. The relationship will give Digital Space access to CyberQ Group’s global Security Operations Centre, enabling it to offer customers fully compliant CREST and ISO 27000 managed security services and bespoke end-to-end security solutions, including Pen Testing and threat analysis. Paul Farrelly, Chief Digital Officer at Digital Space, said: “The partnership will bring together experts from across Digital Space and CyberQ to share knowledge and skills and provide a trusted roadmap of improvement for customers. We can help businesses be more reactive with 24/7 monitoring of systems, helping them to not only identify risk threats in real-time but to reduce costs as well.” www.digitalspace.co.uk Paul Farrelly Ian Brown CSI becomes Microsoft CSP partner Following rapid growth in its Azure practice, managed service provider CSI is helping customers embrace the cloud by joining the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme with direct billing, combined offers and services and direct provisioning, management and support of products and services. Jason Normanton, CSI Head of Cloud Services, said:“We’ve experienced 900% revenue growth in our Azure practice, so it made sense to become a direct Microsoft CSP partner to simplify our customer relationships and provide one point of contact for them. “During April we will also be introducing a digital commerce platform (online marketplace), which will facilitate the buying and selling of cloud solutions certified to run on Azure, as well as our own cloud-based services. Providing access to Microsoft Azure certified solutions at the touch of a button is an important value add to our clients.” www.csiltd.co.uk Smartsheet platinum partner Cheetah Transformation has attained Platinum Partner status with global workflow management software provider Smartsheet. Coming just three years after the Londonbased company was formed, the recognition puts it in the top tier of Smartsheet partners worldwide. The Smartsheet dynamic work management platform enables organisations to work flexibly and at scale, with improved visibility of work status and progress. https://www.cheetahtransformation.co.uk/ Third acquisition of 2022 for inTEC The inTEC GROUP of ICT specialists is continuing its ambitious growth strategy with the acquisition of Newcastle-based IT managed services provider Opal IT Limited. The Group’s 11th acquisition since 2016 and its third this year extends its presence in the North-East and increases its office footprint to nine locations around the UK and Ireland. Founded in 2008, Opal specialises in client server, desktop infrastructure, cloud hosting & cyber security and managed support for private sector businesses as well as several educational institutions. Opal IT Managing Director Andy Metcalfe said: “With our shared values, vision and ethos, this partnership will deliver long-term stability for the business and continued growth and expansion of our operations. We are confident that our team and all of our valued clients will reap huge rewards by us becoming part of the inTEC family and we are really looking forward to the months ahead.” Gold Microsoft Partner inTEC specialises in the design, implementation and support of IT managed services, IT infrastructure support, hosted collaboration and communication solutions, enabling new acquisitions to expand their product and service portfolios and instantly become fullservice ICT solutions providers. https://weareintec.co.uk Paragon Group financial services offer boosted by Reason acquisition Digital customer communications and office services provider Paragon Group has gained new capabilities in experience design, software engineering and digital transformation with the acquisition of digital product development agency Reason. The latter’s strength in the retail and financial services sectors will enable Paragon to deepen its relationships in these markets, broaden its client portfolio and offer newly enhanced solutions and consultancy to more companies. Reason will join Paragon DCX, which brings together around 250 creative, data and customer communications experts, digital experience specialists and marketing automation experts to work on marketing and digital programmes for clients such as Arriva, Comic Relief, Coventry Building Society, Greene King, Goldman Sachs, Aviva, Health Education England and Great Western Railway. James Goldhill, CEO at Paragon DCX, said: “I’m excited to welcome everyone at Reason under the DCX umbrella. Reason is a well-respected name in the retail and financial services spaces, sectors we are actively developing. Working together with Reason and bringing on board a host of capabilities (technological and human), together we’ll be able to offer more and better services to clients in more than 20 countries across the world.” Reason Managing Director Peter Gandy said: “Paragon DCX is a great fit for Reason. The acquisition means we’ll be able to scale faster and take the company to another level. We’ll be able to share knowledge and expertise while remaining true to our shared core growth pillars: digital transformation, data and AI, agile delivery and service design.” Paragon Group has a turnover of €1.2 billion and more than 9,000 employees. www.paragon-europe.com
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