M&A Deals That Reshaped The Channel: October 2016

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5. Perficient

Company acquired: Bluetube

Head count: 60 employees

Annual revenue: $7 million

Purchase price: Not disclosed

Date of announcement: Oct. 13

Perficient purchased a digital consultancy that works with The Home Depot, the New York Philharmonic and Turner Broadcasting.

St. Louis-based Perficient, No. 61 on the 2016 CRN Solution Provider 500, said its acquisition of Atlanta-based Bluetube will boost its expertise around enterprise mobile applications, creative services, marketing and strategy.

Bluetube will strengthen Perficient's Microsoft-oriented offering by deepening its practice around Sitecore -- a web content management and multichannel marketing automation software -- and introducing an Elite-level partnership around Xamarin, which developers can use to write native apps and share code across multiple platforms. Bluetube is one of just 10 Elite Xamarin partners globally.