Accenture to buy product consulting company BENEXT

Accenture has agreed to acquire France-based BENEXT, a product consulting company specializing in product management, agile coaching, cloud-based development and data science.
Accenture Innovation Hub in Atlanta's Technology SquareFinancial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.

BENEXT is a product consulting company for helping clients design, organize, deploy, and efficiently manage their digital products, while enhancing the customer user experience. The company’s approximately 160 professionals would join OCTO Technology, already a part of Accenture since 2017, and expand the European and capabilities of Accenture Cloud First.

OCTO Technology is a technology consultancy specializing in digital transformation and software development. The OCTO team is primarily located in France and also operates across Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Over the past 24 months, Accenture has made a number of strategic investments to enhance its Cloud First capabilities. In France, recent acquisitions include Linkbynet, Gekko, and Cirruseo.