Accenture acquires Olikka, an Azure specialist in the Australian and New Zealand market

Accenture announced the acquisition of Melbourne, Australia-based cloud migration services provider, Olikka. The acquisition is intended to expand Accenture's Azure and AWS capabilities in Oceania, across the Australia and New Zealand markets.

Olikka, founded in 2011, will become part of Accenture's Cloud First, a full-stack service group with 70,000 cloud professionals, which has received $3 billion in investments over the last three years. It marks the latest in a string of Accenture acquisitions in Australia and New Zealand over the last 18 months, including Apis Group, Zag, AlphaBeta, Analytics8 and BCT Solutions.