August M&A Roundup: CrowdStrike, Accenture Moves & More

In a blink, August has come and gone, but the channel has remained active in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) space.

Organizations, both large and small, have added tools, expertise, and expert employees to their enterprises to enhance their capabilities for helping customers.

Channel Insider continues to provide up-to-date recaps each month on M&A moves that impact the channel and signal which trends are most significant. Explore some of the major moves from across the ecosystem below, as well as in our dedicated M&A coverage.

CrowdStrike set to acquire Onum

Leading cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike has agreed to acquire Onum, a provider of real-time telemetry pipeline management.

The deal will enhance CrowdStrike’s Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and AI-native engine of the modern SOC, and boost its data foundation for agent-based security and IT operations, eliminating onboarding friction while delivering autonomous detection capabilities.

“Our Next-Gen SIEM is the engine that powers the modern SOC, and data is the fuel that makes the engine run,” said George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike. “Onum is both a pipeline and a filter, which will stream high-quality, filtered data directly into the platform to drive autonomous cybersecurity at scale. This is how we stop breaches at the speed of AI while giving customers complete control over their entire data ecosystem– well beyond cybersecurity.”

The Onum platform offers speed, scale, and efficiency in onboarding to Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, providing customers with control over their security and observability data. Further, Onum will bring Falcon’s AI-powered detections directly to third-party data sources through in-pipeline analysis.

Accenture makes a series of acquisitions

Accenture, a multinational professional services company, has made moves to acquire NeuraFlash, CyberCX, and SI&C Co., Ltd.

NeuraFlash is a Salesforce and genAI consulting company, specializing in agentic solutions for sales, service, and field service operations. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based company focuses on leveraging genAI to automate complex business processes, optimize agent-based programs, enhance analytics, manage change, and provide ongoing managed services for organizations – helping them effectively utilize new technologies, such as Salesforce Agentforce.

This move will enhance Accenture’s Salesforce genAI and managed services capabilities, while extending its footprint to mid-market industries globally.

“This acquisition will significantly enhance our agentic AI capabilities and allow us to better serve the mid-market, in direct alignment with Salesforce’s strategic direction,” said Stephanie Sadowski, senior managing director and Salesforce Business Group global leader for Accenture. “By integrating NeuraFlash’s expertise, we aim to help accelerate enterprise AI adoption and drive innovation for clients across industries.”

Further, Accenture has agreed to acquire CyberCX, a privately owned cybersecurity services provider serving both private and public sector organizations in Australia, New Zealand, and internationally.

This acquisition will further expand Accenture’s position in the Asia Pacific region, while enhancing its ability to build business resilience, protect critical infrastructure, and drive secure enterprise reinvention in response to the shifting regulatory and threat landscape.

“CyberCX and Accenture share a mission to harness the power of cyber to help our clients securly navigate change, accelerate business reinvention, and build resilience against evolving threats,” said Paolo Dal Cin, global lead, Accenture Cybersecurity. “By combining Accenture’s agentic AI capabilities with CyberCX’s strong market leadership, innovative offerings, and trusted C-suite and government relationships, we will enable clients across Asia Pacific to transform cybersecurity into a strategic advantage.”

CyberCX also brings AI-powered platforms that deliver cybersecurity services, including detection and response, sovereign secure cloud, CyberCX Academy for training and learning, and proprietary tools for security testing and cyber intelligence.

Lastly, Accenture has agreed to acquire SI&Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based provider of advanced digital technology, cloud, data, and AI consulting services.

Through this acquisition, Accenture will enhance its ability to assist Japan-based clients in achieving enterprise-wide, data-driven transformation by adding SI&C’s technical expertise, industry knowledge, and highly skilled talent.

“Accenture continues to strengthen its services to help clients build digital cores that are essential to driving enterprise-wide transformation,” said Atsushi Egawa, CEO, Accenture, Japan, and co-CEO, Asia-Pacific. “SI&C’s proven track record in delivering high quality IT services, exceptional talent capabilities, and deep industry knowledge and experience– along with the trust earned from clients through these strengths– align perfectly with the areas Accenture is focused on enhancing. SI&C’s mission to use digital technology to improve the future and transform society, resonates strongly with Accenture’s purpose to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. We believe the integration of these two companies which share the same values will accelerate transformation for Japanese enterprises.”

SI&C employs approximately 900 professionals, in addition to owning Advanced Solution Leading Corporation and Cibic. Inc., two companies that specialize in application development and ERP implementation support, which employ around 600 employees. These roughly 1,500 professionals will join Accenture in Japan.

Okta acquires Axiom Security

Okta, a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) platform, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Axiom Security, an identity-centric privileged access management (PAM) solution for cloud, SaaS, and database environments.

Through this acquisition, Axiom’s technology will be integrated into Okta Privileged Access to expand access controls to more sensitive resources for Okta customers, strengthening their identity security fabric and managing the types of privileged access across resources and use cases within their environment.

“This acquisition will help Okta customers extend their identity security fabric to more privileged accounts and resources, ensuring a single control plane for managing privileged access, whether on-prem or in the cloud,” says Abhi Sawant, Chief Technology Officer, Head of Engineering, Okta. “We are excited to grow our Privileged Access capabilities and provide more solutions to our customers. And I am ecstatic to welcome the talented Axiom Security team to Okta. We anticipate the acquisition to close in September, so stay tuned for more details in the coming months.”

Axiom will elevate Okta’s current PAM offering to solve more use cases, as well as adding security controls and connectors to critical infrastructure resources, such as databases and Kubernetes.

Tecton acquired by Databricks

Enterprise AI data platform, Tecton, will be joining Databricks, uniting online data serving with Databricks’ Agent Bricks.

Through the teaming, customers will be empowered to build, deploy, and scale AI agents with speed and confidence.

Customers can expect deep integration with Tecton’s capabilities embedded into Databricks workflows and tooling to streamline the journey from raw data to AI agents. Customers will also gain fully integrated, automated online data serving within their unified data and AI platform.

Tecton and Databricks already have a history together, as the latter has invested in Tecton and shares several joint customers across multiple industries. By uniting Tecton’s real-time data serving with Databricks’ AI tooling, customers can streamline the entire journey from raw data to production, simplifying the building and deployment of classic machine learning models and agentic AI applications.

SailPoint has entered into an agreement to acquire key assets from Savvy

SailPoint Inc., an enterprise identity security provider, is acquiring key assets from Savvy, a provider of SaaS application visibility and monitoring.

SailPoint will integrate the acquired Savvy technology with SailPoint’s offerings to deliver application visibility and intelligence to customers.

“If you can’t see every application, you can’t protect it– but visibility alone is not enough,” said Chandra Gnanasambandam, CTO and EVP of Product, SailPoint. “Our customers need the intelligence to understand where their greatest risks lie, paired with automation that systemically closes those gaps. With SailPoint Accelerated Application Management, they get both– accelerating time-to-value while strengthening their security posture.”

This news comes in connection with the unveiling of SailPoint Accelerated Application Management, a solution that changes how enterprises discover, govern, and secure applications at scale.

Successful completion of the contemplated acquisition remains subject to customary closing conditions at the time of this publication.

Cloudera acquires Taikun to further develop platform 

Cloudera, a data and AI platform organization that brings cloud anywhere, is acquiring Taikun, a platform provider for managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

This move will enable Cloudera to accelerate the deployment and delivery of the complete Cloudera platform, including data services and AI, through a unified control plane.

“This acquisition makes a pivotal step in our mission to bring the cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides,” said Charles Sansbury, CEO, Cloudera. “By integrating Taikun’s container-native platform in our stack, we are removing operational barriers and enabling our customers to unlock faster insights, make smarter decisions, and drive real-time action in every corner of their business.”

Cloudera gains a fully integrated compute layer that unifies deployment and operations across the IT stack with Taikun’s technology, delivering a consistent, cloud-like experience anywhere.

Infosys acquires 75% of Telstra’s Versent

Infosys, a digital services and consulting leader, is acquiring 75 percent of Versent– Telstra’s cloud services arm– for $153 million to enhance its presence in Australia’s cloud and AI space.

The deal is expected to close in the second half of fiscal 2026, and Telstra will retain a 25 percent minority stake.

“By combining Infosys’ global leadership in digital services with the strength and trust of the Telstra brand, we are uniquely positioned to deliver cloud and AI solutions that are secure, resilient, and built for the digital needs of Australia and New Zealand,” said Anand Swaminathan, EVP and global head of communications, media, & technology at Infosys. “This collaboration reflects our shared commitment in accelerating AI-led innovation, and enabling a more connected, intelligent, and digital future for the region.”

Infosys will combine Versent’s local expertise with its own AI and cloud capabilities, including its Topaz AI services, Cobalt cloud platform, and cybersecurity skills acquired through the acquisition of The Missing Link.

Kinly to merge with Yorktel

Kinly, one of Europe’s largest AV and UCC systems integrators, is acquiring Yorktel, a New Jersey-based global AV systems integrator and MSP.

Together, the firms will create a workplace experience and collaboration organization with a global reach.

“Merging with Yorktel marks and exciting next chapter for our team and customers,” said Tom Martin, CEO, Kinly. “Our organizations are aligned in values, strategy, and a relentless focus on delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients. Together, we will drive innovation, provide great opportunities to our employees and partners, and create even more value in a rapidly changing collaboration market.”

The merged company will serve over 2,500 clients across 27 global locations, and have more than 1,600 employees, including over 900 industry-specialist accreditations.

Uniphore acquires 2 AI companies

Business AI company, Uniphore, announced the acquisition of Orby AI, Inc. and is intending to acquire Autonom8, Inc. Both are AI-native companies that will enhance the capabilities of Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud.

Orby and Autonom8 bring AI research and engineering talent, adding expertise and proven innovation to enhance Business AI.

“The world’s largest companies trust Uniphore to deliver innovation at the speed of AI,” said Umesh Sachdev, CEO and co-founder of Uniphore. “Our customers are betting their business models on AI-enabled transformation, with Business AI CLoud at the core. With the addition of Orby and Autonom8, Uniphore will welcome world-class research and engineering talent and breakthrough AI capabilities that elevate our ability to orchestrate complex workflows. We’re ready to rapidly integrate these teams into Uniphore and deliver new innovations to our customers without delay.”

Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud can unlock the agentic enterprise with a complete, composable AI stack across agents, models, knowledge, and data. Integrating Orby and Autonom8 will accelerate automation of complex enterprise workflows.

Verint acquired by Thoma Bravo

Thoma Bravo, a software investment firm, has acquired Verint Systems, Inc., a CX automation leader, in an all-cash transaction reflecting an enterprise value of $2 billion.

With this acquisition, Verint will combine with Calabrio to form a single company, providing customer experience (CX) automation solutions that advance the critical priorities of CX organizations.

“Together, Calabrio and Verint will bring a powerful set of products to accelerate a shared vision: delivering an AI-powered, open CX-platform to customers who are focused on driving strong business outcomes in their operations,” said Dave Rhodes, Calabrio CEO. “As a combined company, we are well-positioned to lead the industry forward.”

Pending regulatory approval, the deal is expected to close before the end of Verint’s current fiscal year, in early 2026.

Arctera acquired by Cloud Software Group

Arctera, a data management leader, is being acquired by Cloud Software Group, Inc., and will operate as a standalone business unit within the Cloud Software Group portfolio.

“This acquisition marks an exciting milestone for Cloud Software Group and an important step forward in our long-term growth strategy,” said Tom Krause, Chief Executive Officer of Cloud Software Group. “We have a strong track record of continuing to invest in our portfolio of leading software brands, as evidenced by our work to improve profitability and long-term sustainability of the Citric and TIBCO businesses. Looking ahead, we aim to acquire at-scale enterprise-focused software businesses that provide mission-critical capabilities and high value to public and private sector customers while also ensuring they’re a good fit to operate within our proven Cloud Software Group model.”

Arctera was created following the combination of Veritas’ Enterprise Data Protection business with Cohesity, and has a portfolio comprised of Data Resilience delivered through InfoScale, Data Compliance through the Insight platform, and Data Protection through Backup Exec.

“We have long admired Arctera’s business and the work that the Arctera and Carlyle teams have done to expand the business,” Krause said. “Arctera has grown into the leading provider of data and enterprise infrastructure software solutions for customers worldwide, and we are confident that Arctera’s portfolio of Data Resilience, Data Compliance, and Data Protection products will be a natural complementary addition to Cloud Software Group. We look forward to expanding the services and products we provide for both sets of customers through this acquisition.”

The summer has been a prime time for mergers and acquisitions within the channel. Catch up on July’s M&A recap to stay up-to-date on the latest moves in the ecosystem.