Publicis Sapient acquires Sapient.i7 Ltd in its entirety

Publicis Sapient, today announced that it has wholly acquired Sapient.i7 Ltd, the joint enterprise it launched with Tquila Ventures in March 2018. Over the past 2 years, Sapient i7 has offered an extensive set of services leveraging Salesforce technology to enable digital transformation for large companies in Europe.

Sapient i7 will join Publicis Sapient  to form a new Global practice expanding Publicis Sapient’s Salesforce expertise and strengthening its alignment to the technology.

The Global Salesforce practice will be led by Jason English. Stephen Aitken, the current CEO of Sapient i7 will lead the UK, Europe, and APAC Regions.

Jason English, SVP, Global Salesforce Practice Leader, Publicis Sapient says: “The acquisition of Sapient i7 enhances the value Publicis Sapient brings to its clients. Publicis Sapient has been delivering large scale digital business transformation for a number of years and the acquisition of Sapient i7 enables the company to offer digital business transformation on a truly global scale.”

On the acquisition, Stephen Aitken commented: “It’s been exciting to watch Sapient i7’s Salesforce practice grow quickly in Europe. The acquisition enables us to continue growth in delivering digital business transformation on the Salesforce platform.”

Stephane Viallet, VP, Alliances, Salesforce commented: “We’re excited that Publicis Sapient has now acquired Sapient i7. This is a renewed demonstration of Publicis Sapient’s commitment to invest in the digital business transformation of organisations, leveraging Salesforce technology.”

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Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services. With over 30 years of digital business transformation experience, we enable enterprise clients to transform how they operate and serve their customers, unlocking new value and enabling them to thrive in an AI-driven world. Our platforms Sapient Slingshot, Sapient Bodhi and Sapient Sustain use AI built off this deep enterprise context to help organizations modernize their legacy tech systems, build agentic solutions, and automate their IT operations. The combination of our AI platforms and the expertise of our people enables us to deliver faster and more effective outcomes through solutions that are specific to the unique needs of our clients’ businesses, their industries and their customers. Publicis Sapient is the technology hub of Publicis Groupe, uniting 20,000 people worldwide across 28 countries. For more information, visit publicissapient.com.

Tquila has a 7-year history of success within the salesforce.com eco-system, having established and funded Tquila UK, a 170-person consulting practice which was acquired by Accenture in May 2015. In addition to the UK business, Tquila has built a successful salesforce practice in Japan, through a joint venture with Pasona Group (TKS: 2168), & salesforce.com. “Pasona Tquila” is a 200-person practice, that’s scheduled to IPO on the Tokyo exchange in 2021. Tquila Ventures has recently established and funded investments in the UK in a UI path practice, “Tquila Automation” and entered into a new Joint Venture with Sapient and Elder Research to build an AI Data Science practice in London and Boston “ps ai labs”.