Toronto, March 1, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – BDO Canada today announced the acquisition of Calgary-based technology services company SimplicityBI effective March 1, 2021. The SimplicityBI team will join BDO’s 500-strong BDO technology business, adding to the organization’s presence in Western Canada and expanding its coast-to-coast digital transformation services.
Calgary-based SimplicityBI is a data management company specializing in end-to-end data solutions, from the source to the dashboard and everything in between. In building this business, SimplicityBI was recognized as the leading North American provider of Denodo-enabled solutions – Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools (August 2020). SimplicityBI is also a Microsoft Gold Partner and the first Snowflake Premier Partner in Western Canada.
Vincent L’Archeveque, Arif Rajwani and Mano Vajpey will join as BDO partners and look forward to expanding their data management and data analysis services on a national level and offering their customers the wider range of services offered by BDO.
“I am pleased to welcome SimplicityBI to the BDO Canada team,” said Pat Kramer, Chief Executive Officer of BDO Canada. “As BDO expands its offering of technology advisory services to its data analytics clients, this merger strengthens our ability to continue to meet the changing needs of clients and to respond to market changes in the Canadian economy.”
About BDO Canada
BDO Canada LLP is a leading provider of professional services to clients of all sizes in virtually all business areas. Our team offers a full range of insurance, accounting, tax and advisory services, complemented by in-depth industry knowledge gained from 100 years of working in local communities. As part of the international BDO network, we can offer customers with global requirements seamless and consistent cross-border services. With over 90,000 employees in more than 1,600 offices in over 160 countries, the network has worldwide sales of USD 10.3 billion.
BDO Canada’s technology business, “Lixar Fueled by BDO”, is a leading provider of data and technology solutions that focuses on serving customers in companies with data and AI, business applications and modern workplace solutions, and on market-leading cyber and Cloud engineering functions based. Lixar’s market leadership was recently recognized with the AI Impact Microsoft Impact Award 2019, the Microsoft Data Platform Modernization Award 2020 and membership of the Inner Circle 2020/2021 for Microsoft Business Applications.
About SimplicityBI
SimplicityBI was founded in 2013 and focuses on creating end-to-end data solutions and delivering enterprise data analytics solutions to its customers using various world-class technologies that form the basis of its reference architectures. These include Denodo, HVR, Microsoft Azure, Semarchy, Snowflake, Wherescape, DBT and Looker. SimplicityBI has a cross-functional data team that has extensive experience in all of the required components of its customers’ data landscape. SimplicityBI’s clientele spans more than a dozen locations in North America in a variety of industries including energy & utilities, oil & gas, insurance, and healthcare.
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