AppDirect announced
that it has acquired ITCloud.ca, one of Canada's preeminent cloud
technology providers. With this acquisition, AppDirect expands the
geographical footprint in Canada of its AppSmart business, which is
focused on helping simplify how channel partners and businesses find,
buy and manage technology, and gains full end-to-end Microsoft
capabilities. By joining AppDirect, ITCloud.ca will be able to
significantly scale its existing business and expand the portfolio of
solutions it offers by accessing more than 600 leading SaaS technology
and telecommunications vendors in the AppSmart catalog.
Founded
in 2005 as an online backup and recovery company, ITCloud.ca today
provides a broad portfolio of cloud solutions for more than 1,200
technology partners that serve thousands of leading business customers
across Canada. ITCloud.ca will now be able to complement and augment its
popular digital partner portal with new industry-first capabilities
powered by the AppSmart Marketplace. The AppSmart Marketplace provides
partners access to a broad portfolio of technology and business
solutions, as well as a set of powerful management tools to help them
manage and grow their business. Additionally, partners can extend
AppSmart's identity management, application management and data
visualization tools directly to their business customers to help them
find and manage all of their technology in one place.
AppDirect
has a long-standing commitment and presence in Canada and the addition
of ITCloud.ca represents an important step to bring even more
capabilities to its partners. Over the course of its history, ITCloud.ca
has earned recognition as a top Microsoft Partner and brings that deep
knowledge to AppSmart advisors and end-users. Combining ITCloud.ca's
Microsoft Azure and Business 365 experience with AppSmart's Dynamics 365
capabilities will give ITCloud.ca and AppSmart Advisors access to
end-to-end Microsoft Cloud capabilities.
"I'm
thrilled to welcome ITCloud.ca to the AppDirect family, which will
enable us to jointly enhance the opportunities and services ITCloud.ca
delivers to its technology partners in Canada," said Renée Bergeron,
senior vice-president and general manager AppSmart. "I'm also thrilled
that as part of the acquisition, we will be onboarding the phenomenal
team that built ITCloud.ca into what it is today."
"We
believe our partners will greatly benefit from this new relationship by
combining AppDirect's strong global industry depth and leadership with
our relationships and expertise in helping our partners digitally
transform their customers," said Mirco Cristoni, president, ITCloud.ca.
"Our partners will have access to more services, solutions and tools to
grow their business, while enjoying the same relationships at ITCloud.ca
that they have had for the past 17 years."
As
part of the acquisition, AppDirect will onboard the existing leadership
team of ITCloud.ca and enable the teams to offer additional solutions
with over 1,000 products currently available from AppSmart.