Several consulting firms used the work week that preceded Labor Day to announce leadership changes. Boardroom Insight caught up with one of the newly appointed executives, the director of Boyer & Associates’ workplace technology practice, to learn about his plans to grow the unit. We also caught up with the chief commercial officer of Altis Consulting to learn about the firm’s new AI partnership with Domo. Plus, business updates from Kantata, Capgemini, Cognizant and CGI. 

Boyer & Associates appoints Chris Svensson as its modern work enablement director. The consultancy’s modern work practice, which launched last year, helps small and midsize businesses adopt Microsoft 365. One of Svensson’s responsibilities will be expanding the lineup of Microsoft-related services that the firm offers to clients.

Boyer & Associates has already developed two new offerings as part of the growth initiative. The first is a service that helps companies deploy Microsoft Intune, a cloud-based tool for managing employee devices. The software eases tasks such as downloading updates and configuring endpoint security settings. Boyer & Associates can complete the Intune setup process in a week, Svensson told Boardroom Insight. Along the way, the firm upgrades any legacy Windows 10 devices that a client may still have in its network to Windows 11. 

“With Windows 10 reaching its end-of-life date next month, this seemed the natural first step for Boyer to assist our customers with,” Svensson explained.

The firm’s second new consulting offering will help clients reduce their Microsoft 365 licensing costs. “Boyer will provide customers with ongoing license reviews, Secure Score optimization, architectural guidance, passed-through partner discounts and flexible payment terms.” Svensson said. “Next up, Boyer plans to debut a managed service offer for SMBs looking to outsource management of their end-user devices.”

Domo partners with Altis Consulting. Nasdaq-listed Domo offers a cloud platform that companies can use to combine records from different systems, clean them and turn them into dashboards. The software is also useful for machine learning projects. Domo enables companies to build AI agents that can automate tasks such as forecasting revenue.

Last week, the software vendor partnered with Sydney-based Atis Consulting to expand the adoption of its platform in Australia and New Zealand. The collaboration focuses on an integration that Domo provides for Snowflake. The integration allows companies to load data into Snowflake using Domo’s platform and then make the data available to AI agents. Altis Consulting will hold workshops to familiarize local organizations with the two technologies.

“The free data discovery workshops are designed for organisations who are exploring Snowflake but are unsure where to start,” Altis Consulting chief commercial officer Katrina Pilcher told Boardroom Insight. “They’re particularly valuable for those struggling to align business and technical stakeholders, seeking to build a business case for investment, or evaluating multiple platforms and needing clarity on fit.”

Pilcher said the workshops can help companies identify use cases for Domo-powered Snowflake environments in areas such as sales, finance and marketing. From there, Altis Consulting works with participants to identify how those use cases can be implemented. That work involves “mapping opportunities to a clear Snowflake-enabled roadmap with stages, priorities and milestones,” Pilcher explained. The goal is to map out “implementation effort and potential business value to support internal alignment.”

Jesse Weber is Kantata’s new vice president of partner alliances. Kantata provides a software platform that professional services firms use to perform day-to-day business tasks such as collecting client feedback. The firm says that it has more than 1,500 customers worldwide. In his new role, Weber will work to expand Kantata’s partner ecosystem with emphasis on bringing more private equity and consulting firms aboard. 

Aptiv hires Capgemini to help run its IT infrastructure. Aptiv is a publicly-traded auto industry supplier that makes vehicle components, automated parking software and other products. The company’s deal with Capgemini is described as a multi-year agreement that will cover several aspects of its IT operations. According to the French technology consultancy, one of the partnership’s goals is to help Aptiv speed up its research and development efforts. 

Cognizant will train 1,000 employees in context engineering. This is the process of giving a company’s AI applications access to its internal data for use in prompt responses. According to Cognizant, the employees that it’s training to perform the task will support enterprise clients’ AI projects. The participating staffers will carry out their work using a context engineering platform from Massachusetts-based startup Workfabric AI.

CGI completes its acquisition of Apside. The Canadian technology consultancy has gained more than 2,500 new employees through the deal, including 2,200 in France. Apside provides professional services that help companies modernize their IT infrastructure. It also works with manufacturers to boost production line efficiency.

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