Phase 2 and Alacrinet to Merge
October 28, 2011
For Immediate Release
Palo Alto, CA/Honolulu, HI
Phase 2 International (PHASE 2) and Alacrinet Consulting Services, Inc. (Alacrinet) announced today that their respective Boards have reached an Agreement in Principal to merge the two businesses. The companies anticipate that the transaction will close within 30 days.
PHASE 2 is a pioneer in the Cloud computing space hosting the full suite of collaboration tools from both IBM and Microsoft. Their long history of Cloud hosting includes Enterprise customers such as Western Digital, British Petroleum, and Clear Channel. Government customers include NASA, Census Bureau and Office of Head Start as well as the cities of Albuquerque and Fort Worth.
PHASE 2 CEO, Kevin Doherty, stated, “This transaction will bring together two of the pre-eminent companies in the Cloud space. We have been working together as partners for several years and recently the synergies between the companies have become hard to ignore. The combined entity will be much more capable and efficient than the two businesses operating independently.”
Alacrinet is a long time IT services company specializing in IBM applications with a specific focus on collaborative portal development. Alacrinet’s customers include Accenture, Jack in the Box, Swift Transportation, and MGM Resorts. Their government customer list includes Federal Aviation Administration, State of Washington, the Honolulu Police Department and the City and County of Honolulu.
“PHASE 2 brings the network and hosting expertise and we complete the package by providing customer integration and migration services as well as deep experience in customizing and installing products such as WebSphere and many others”, according to Brian Bouchard, Alacrinet’s President. “Together we will be able to provide customers with end-to-end service as they move applications from other providers or their own on-prem installations to the Cloud.”
The merged company will be headquartered in Palo Alto with offices in Honolulu, Denver, Phoenix, Chicago, San Diego, and Washington, DC.
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About PHASE 2 International
PHASE 2 is a partner and IBM Business Partner that delivers affordable and scalable access to high-end business software applications via a Software as a Service model. Ideal for businesses of all sizes, the hosted applications currently include IBM Notes, Sametime, Quickr and Connections. The hosted applications are delivered across the Web to enable on-demand access to corporate information whenever and wherever in the world users happen to be located. PHASE 2 is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii and operates a secure, state-of-the-art data center specifically certified in accordance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) which is a high level requirement for hosting federal government applications. For more information visit www.phase2.com.
About Alacrinet Consulting, Inc
Alacrinet Consulting Services is a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout the United States. Alacrinet is an elite team of highly skilled consultants covering the gamut of the IBM product families with broad architectural knowledge, deep technical skills, and access to product managers, developers and product support personnel from within IBM. For more information visit www.alacrinet.com.
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