EMS Acquires DBS: Executive Perspectives

“We’ve reached a tipping point where our FINS customers are asking for comprehensive, out of the box solutions built on the Salesforce platform that can be easily deployed for rapid adoption to enhance the customer experience and achieve significant business results more quickly. I look forward to welcoming the talented professionals of DBS to the EMS team.”
“We are thrilled to be joining forces with EMS. The combination of our capabilities and experience with EMS’s scale, broad industry expertise, and global cloud application capabilities represents a unique and compelling opportunity for our customers, for our people and the future of cloud technology.”
MSP Financial Services Plays
There has been a fair amount of activity within the financial services vertical for MSPs, both with respect to M&A plays and funding activity. Stories that ChannelE2E has tracked include:- March 2020: Delta Capita Group, a financial services consulting firm and MSP, received a $50 million equity investment from Prytek Holdings and over $100 million of capital for future acquisitions and client transactions.
- November 2019: PE-backed MSP Coretelligent acquired managed IT services provider SoundView IT Solutions.
- July 2019: Thrive acquired Tier1Net. Thrive is backed by M/C Partners.
- February 2019: Abacus Group acquired Proactive Technologies. Abacus is backed by WestView Capital Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm.
- June 2018: H.I.G. Capital invested in Eze Castle in June 2018. At the time, Eze Castle claimed to have more than 650 alternative investment and financial sector customers around the world.