Sydney-based digital providers and advisory agency PhoenixDX has been acquired by Alan Allman Associates, a Paris-headquartered community of tech consultancies with its eyes on the APAC area.
PhoenixDX, which was established in Sydney by Pedro Carrilho and later Juan Martin from 2016, turns into the primary Australian member of the Euronext-listed agency, following its earlier buy of Asian IT consultancy We+ in late 2023.
A number one regional companion of the OutSystems low-code platform, PhoenixDX specialises within the fast improvement of digital merchandise and customized software program, supported by a workforce of 80-plus technicians unfold throughout Australia and the Philippines.
“PhoenixDX’s distinctive experience in digital product engineering will enable us to develop our capabilities and provide enhanced providers to our purchasers,” acknowledged CEO Jean-Marie Thual. “This acquisition solidifies our place within the APAC area, and collectively, we’ll ship technological options that align with strategic consulting to create vital worth within the Australian market.”
A former chief working officer at Altran (now Capgemini Engineering), Thual established Alan Allman Associates in Paris in 2009, since overseeing its progress to an ‘ecosystem’ of multiple and a half dozen tech consultancies unfold throughout Europe, North America, and most just lately the Asia Pacific. The corporate’s annual revenues at the moment are trending towards the €400 million mark.
Having grown that determine tenfold over the previous decade, Alan Allman Associates in 2023 turned its consideration to the Asia Pacific for the subsequent step in its worldwide growth agenda, choosing up Singapore-based We+, which has an extra presence in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taiwan. Now, the agency has gained an extra foothold within the area by way of the bulk buy of PhoenixDX.
Carrilho, who will proceed as managing director of PhoenixDX, mentioned the deal would open up thrilling new alternatives for the agency’s workforce and purchasers; “This partnership will consolidate our presence in Australia and additional speed up our progress and develop our world attain, particularly within the APAC area. We at the moment are well-positioned to capitalise on rising alternatives.”
Carrilho and Martin each served in senior management roles at Qlik previous to establishing PhoenixDX, respectively as APAC skilled providers director and consulting providers gross sales supervisor for the A/NZ. Each additionally deliver greater than twenty years of IT business expertise to the desk, with Carrilho beginning out as a software program engineer at OutSystems and Martin as a developer at Accenture.
Martin mentioned: “Our partnership with Alan Allman, a gaggle backed by a robust monetary basis, permits us to speculate additional within the creation of value-added modernisation and innovation providers to ship a complete providing of transformational options to our prospects. Our dedication to main the AI-powered low-code wave in Australia stays unchanged for a few years forward.”
