Channel markets

David Brock wonders if it's time to rethink sales and marketing and how those functions are provided within organizations.

Belgian Microsoft Dynamics partner sa.global acquires fellow Microsoft partner Dynamic Consulting in the United States. M&A in the cloud ERP & CRM consulting market remains strong.

Converge Technology Solutions acquires enterprise MSP Paragon Development Systems (PDS) for 5.8X adjusted EBITDA. martinwolf provides buy-side M&A guidance.

Peak Technologies, backed by private equity firm Sole Source Capital, gains digital supply chain, retail & mobile workforce expertise.

Ensono, a Top 250 Public Cloud MSP backed by KKR, acquires ExperSolve, a mainframe application migration & modernization company.

IBM acquires data analytics & sustainability software company Envizi. May shed IBM Watson Health software business. CEO Arvind Krishna's M&A strategy.

Dataprise, an MSP backed by private equity firm Trinity Hunt Partners, acquires Veeam partner Global Data Vault for Backup & Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS).