Canada’s telecom service provider TELUS has acquired 20 percent stake in Alithya, a Quebec-based information technology and consulting service provider.
The investment is part of TELUS strategy to enhance its IT offerings to enterprises.
“This partnership will address the business community’s demand for managed infrastructure solutions centred on intelligent data centres and cloud-based technologies,” said Benoit Simard, vice president, Business Markets at TELUS.
As per the partnership, each will offer ICT services, with a focus on managed infrastructure solutions, to their business customers.
94 employees from TELUS’ Professional Services team will be joining Alithya. Following this move, Alithya will have 600 consultants across nine Canadian and three French offices.
TELUS will retain those Professional Services team members specializing in the provision of expertise on application and managed infrastructure solutions, specifically managed cloud computing, hosting, and portal solutions.
TELUS had $11.8 billion of annual revenue and 13.5 million customer connections, including 8 million wireless subscribers, 3.2 million wireline network access lines, 1.45 million Internet subscribers and 888,000 TELUS TV customers.
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