Logicalis Acquires Lantares, a Consultancy Company Specialised in Business Analytics, to Bring New Capabilities to Spanish Enterprise Operation

LONDON - May 19, 2016 - PRLog -- Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, today announced it has agreed to acquire Lantares S.L., a Spanish company specialised in Analytics and Business Solutions. Lantares' specialism adds new and attractive solutions to Logicalis Spain's portfolio.

Lantares, established in 2003, is a leader in the implementation of strategic solutions for Corporate Performance Management and Information Management, both on-premise and cloud-based. Lantares holds the highest IBM Analytics certifications in Spain and has a strong market reputation in a sector of the technology space that is projecting strong growth.

Mark Rogers, Logicalis CEO, comments: "This acquisition is strategically important for Logicalis Spain, bringing important skills and services in the area of analytics which is a strong growth market for Logicalis and complements the Trovus acquisition made by Logicalis UK in 2015. It also strengthens our business portfolio in strategic areas such as Security and the Internet of Things (IoT). As we focus on supporting our customers to embrace digital innovation, real-time intelligence from business analytics delivers impressive business outcomes for organisations. Logicalis' established consultancy sales approach and business analytics practice in the UK will now be replicated in Spain."

About Lantares

Lantares, a Spanish Analytics Consultancy currently has more than 40 employees, most of them based in Madrid, and the remainder in Barcelona.

Lantares has nearly 200 customers and 6,000 end users that rely on the experience and business knowledge of its team of consultants and specialists in Business Intelligence Analytics projects that implement solutions such as Dashboards, Reporting, Mobility, Budgeting, Planning, Simulation, Consolidation and Cloud BI, as well as information management, data warehouse, Big Data, Data Quality, Data Integration and Data Governance.

About Logicalis

Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration; data centre and cloud services; and managed services.

Logicalis employs over 4,000 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex IT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 6,500 corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware and ServiceNow on an international basis, and has specialised solutions for enterprise and medium-sized companies in vertical markets covering financial services, telecommunications, media and technology, education, healthcare, retail, government, manufacturing and professional services, helping customers benefit from cutting-edge technologies in a cost-effective way.

The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues of over $1.5 billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, and is one of the leading IT and communications solution integrators, specialising in the areas of advanced technologies and services.

The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues of over $6 billion.

For more information, visit www.logicalis.com.