SharePoint, the Microsoft IT services firm, is acquiring Knowledge Management Associates, to further enhance its enterprise platform. Specifics of the deal were not immediately announced but KMA’s team will be integrated into SharePoint.
PRESS RELEASE:
Sentri, Inc., an award-winning Microsoft IT services firm today announced the acquisition of the SharePoint practice of Knowledge Management Associates (KMA).
The deal includes all of KMA’s SharePoint assets. There will be an immediate integration of KMA’s SharePoint team, continued engagement with the KMA client base, and ongoing involvement in the SharePoint community.
KMA will focus its efforts on its Mekko Graphics business charting application and its Microsoft-based custom application development practice.
The transaction will support Sentri’s goal to provide both breadth and depth of IT services around the Microsoft platform: Professional, Strategic, Managed, and Cloud.
Alex Beletsky, Sentri’s Founding Partner stated “The SharePoint platform continues to be an important component of our business.” Alex continues, “Bringing KMA’s SharePoint team on board will give Sentri a depth of SharePoint knowledge that is very hard to find.”
KMA’s SharePoint Practice has been a leading SharePoint consulting team in New England, building solutions based on the SharePoint platform to help organizations become more collaborative, insightful and productive. With over a decade of expertise, the KMA SharePoint practice has helped hundreds of companies envision, deploy, migrate, support, and enhance SharePoint solutions.
Mike Gilronan, former KMA Partner and now General Manager for Sentri’s Strategic Consulting group, commented “Sentri’s capabilities in Lync, CRM, Exchange, System Center combined with KMA’s SharePoint expertise enable us to offer a breadth of integrated Microsoft solutions with SharePoint at the core.” Mike continues, “the combination truly opens the door for organizations to realize the full potential of Microsoft technologies.”
About Sentri
Sentri, a Microsoft Gold Partner, is a leading provider of information technology consulting and managed services. Sentri is a full service solutions integration company, focused on the synergy of business and technology. We work with our customers, assess their IT environment, recommend the best course of action, develop a process, test and deploy and manage and support. We currently offer our clients a breadth of Microsoft-based solutions to help organizations ignite the power of the Microsoft platform.
About Knowledge Management Associates
Knowledge Management Associates is the maker of Mekko Graphics—a PowerPoint add-in that is the premier strategic charting application. Mekko Graphics is being used at over 25% of the Fortune 500 companies and by leading consulting and private equity firms. In addition, KMA builds C#-based custom applications leveraging its knowledge of SQL Server and Microsoft Office.