Weblinc is a leader in Salesforce in Australia
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud services firm GlobalOne announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Australian cloud computing application provider Weblinc. The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
This announcement comes a month after GlobalOne launched GlobalOne Mobility, a new practice offering professional services for building, deploying and maintaining mobile cloud apps for consumer and enterprise environments. It also named Doug Maloney, former GM innovation and new business at Vodafone Hutchinson Australia, will lead the new division as VP mobility at GlobalOne.
GlobalOne says this acquisition bolsters its capabilities in the Asia Pacific region, and broadens its expertise in building and deploying enterprise cloud applications.
Headquartered in Brisbane with operations in Sydney and Melbourne, Weblinc has the most certified Salesforce professionals than any other Salesforce partner in Australia, GlobalOne CEO David Northington said in an interview with the WHIR.
“Weblinc’s expertise strategically complements GlobalOne’s business and offers customers a deeper and broader set of cloud services from a single provider,” Paul Mansfield, Weblinc CEO said in a statement. “Weblinc is a key contributor to the evolution of the cloud technical architecture community and holds a seat on salesforce.com’s International Technical Architecture Review Board. The Weblinc team has built large custom apps on the Force.com platform with complex integration requirements to ERP core systems.”
Weblinc offers a library of blueprint designs and templates that can help solve business problems such as revenue scheduling and complex quoting. Northington says in an interview that Weblinc has a focus on manufacturing and construction customers, with a heavy focus on architecture and mobility.
Northington says GlobalOne will immediately combine locations, and leadership structure, and Weblinc will become integrated “almost immediately.”
“Acquiring Weblinc gives us the necessary knowledge, experience and tools to create a global architecture practice,” John Orrock, COO at GlobalOne said in a statement. “This new practice will take cloud computing foundation assets and thought leadership in cloud architecture to market. Clients will see benefits in terms of strategy around governance, design, delivery, training and certification of their staff.”
With the new mobility division and the acquisition of Weblinc, GlobalOne is positioning itself to lead in cloud computing services market in Australia.
GlobalOne has made three acquisitions in the past four months. In October 2011, GlobalOne acquired telecom solutions provider FLOW thru LOGIC.
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