Axon acquires PremierHR 01/11/2006
“Axon’s growth in the US market is fuelled with the acquisition of the leading HCM SAP Partner”
Axon, one of the largest SAP Business Transformation practices globally, today announced that it has acquired PremierHR, the leading North American SAP Human Capital Management specialist. As part of the acquisition, Axon adds the PremierHR Management Team, an outstanding team of SAP HR consultants and a strong customer base to an already impressive US portfolio.
Founded in 1997, PremierHR has a total focus on the implementation of SAP’s market leading Human Capital Management solution. Premier has extensive experience advising leading North American and global organizations across a wide range of industries on transforming the way they manage their most valuable assets, people.
Commenting on the acquisition, Steve Cardell, Axon’s global COO and North American President stated that “PremierHR’s leadership and team of professionals have built a successful, growing business that is an excellent complement to Axon’s existing North American practice. PremierHR shares our commitment to excellence, depth of experience in SAP and a track record of developing strategic relationships with clients. We’re delighted to welcome the PremierHR Team to Axon.”
Beau Ross, PremierHR’s CEO emphasized that “Axon is exactly the right move for PremierHR, we are excited by the opportunities created through leveraging Axon’s unique SAP business transformation and applications management capabilities. The combination of HCM strategic advice coupled with the capability to deliver the tools that turn vision into reality will be a major differentiator in the fast growing SAP HCM market. Axon has proved through their acquisitions of TUI Consulting and Feanix that they will provide the support necessary to enable significant growth in not only the North American market, but also to allow Axon to become the global HCM partner of choice to major multinational organizations.”
Axon
Axon is a global Business Transformation Services company that designs, implements and supports solutions to complex business issues faced by multinational organizations that have chosen SAP as their strategic enterprise platform.
Axon has over 1,400 experienced professionals specializing in the delivery of change through technology enabled transformation programs. Axon's consultants bring in-depth industry expertise alongside best practice functional knowledge to address the strategic, operational, information management and performance challenges faced by organizations today. Axon is renowned for its ability to help clients define more ambitious strategies, build more effective organizations and to shape more successful futures.
Founded in 1994, today Axon has offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Malaysia and Australia.
Axon in the US
Axon has a ten-year track record in strategic business consulting in the US and acquired Feanix Corporation, the Aerospace and Defense SAP specialist in April 2005 and TUI Consulting, the Utilities SAP Specialist in January 2006. Axon has successfully grown its capabilities in the US since these acquisition, becoming the largest independent SAP Partner with a 100% focus on SAP. Following the completion of the PremierHR acquisition, Axon’s US business will have approximately 375 US employees delivering services to both the Discrete Manufacturing, Travel & Transportation, Public Sector, and Utilities industry verticals as well as the HCM cross-industry marketplace.
For further information, please contact:
Axon Solutions Inc.
Tom Schwab
Director of Business Development
Tel: +1 541.318.3309
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