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Workday's enterprise cloud applications for finance & human resources gain serious momentum. But the SaaS growth company is strangely quiet about its systems integrator & partner ecosystem.

Office Depot's business transformation shows progress, but the CompuCom IT services business unit has more room for improvement.

HP Enterprise acquires BlueData, a Docker software container partner that eases AI, Machine Learning & Big Data application deployments across Hadoop & Spark clusters. Dell EMC was an early BlueData investor.

Cisco Systems acquires Ensoft Ltd., which develops software for service provider networks. Cisco's goal is to build simplified, scalable, trusted & automatable IP network infrastructure,

Accenture invests in Quantexa, a professional services firm with data analytics and network expertise for fighting financial crimes.

Deloitte acquires Salesforce and Amazon Web Services (AWS) consulting partner CloudinIT of New Zealand.

Pure Storage gains partner momentum, and a new Amazon Web Services (AWS) hybrid cloud solution will unlock additional partner opportunities, Pure CEO Charlie Giancarlo asserts.