Channel investors

Cognizant, the global IT services & consulting giant, acquires Collaborative Solutions, a Workday partner for cloud-based finance & human resources applications.

Accenture acquires Callisto Integration, a digital consulting firm that supports such vertical markets as food & beverage, chemicals and utilities.

Accenture acquires Italian financial services consulting firm NIKE Group; deal expands Accenture's FinTech & regulatory compliance talent pool.

Germany-based Northern Data AG acquires Montreal data center & high performance computing (HPC) specialist Kelvin Emtech Group (KE Group).

MobileIron, a unified endpoint management (UEM) platform provider, acquires incapptic mobile automation application release software. It will tuck into MobileIron's UEM platform.

Storage giant NetApp acquires CloudJumper; gains virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud Platform. Vows MSP support.

Fiber network provider Transtelco acquires Neutrona Networks International, a software-defined service provider in Latin America & the Caribbean.