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.