Tech M&A Tracker - ServiceNow, NVIDIA, Accenture and more

Our Tech M&A Tracker rounds up all the mergers and acquisition activity within both the local and international technology industry this past fortnight. Send your M&A news to editors@techpartner.news

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Canberra-based MSP Solution Tech buys cloud services provider

Solution Tech Group, a Canberra-based IT and cyber security provider, has acquired Easy VPS Solutions, a provider of cloud services to large legal and real estate companies as well as medical practices.

ServiceNow to acquire Armis for US$7.75 billion

ServiceNow has entered into an agreement to acquire Armis for US$7.75 billion in cash.

Armis, a cyber exposure management and cyber-physical security company, manages cyber risk across the full attack surface in IT, operational technology (OT), medical devices, and other environments for companies, governments, and critical infrastructure worldwide.

The acquisition will expand ServiceNow’s security workflow offerings and advance AI-native, proactive cybersecurity and vulnerability response across all connected devices.

Together, ServiceNow and Armis will aim to create a unified, end-to-end security exposure and operations stack that can see, decide, and act across the entire technology footprint by connecting real-time asset discovery, threat intelligence, and risk prioritisation with automated remediation and response workflows.

Armis’ security products will pair with ServiceNow workflows to drive end-to-end protection and lifecycle action including in industries with cyber-physical assets – such as manufacturing and healthcare – so security teams stay ahead of threat actors rather than react after breaches occur. 

As longtime partners, ServiceNow and Armis already offer multiple integrations that connect Armis’ differentiated data and insights to ServiceNow’s workflow action. 

The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2026, subject to customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions. Upon the closing of the transaction, Armis’ team will join ServiceNow.

ServiceNow also announced that it had completed the acquisition of Moveworks.

ServiceNow is already one of Moveworks’ more than 100 technology integrations, and its front-end AI assistant, enterprise search, and agentic Reasoning Engine are trusted by global enterprises such as Siemens, Toyota, Unilever, and others. 
 
NVIDIA Acquires Open-Source Workload Management Provider SchedMD
 
NVIDIA has acquired SchedMD — the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI.

NVIDIA will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software, making it widely available to and supported by the broader HPC and AI community across diverse hardware and software environments.

NVIDIA has been collaborating with SchedMD for over a decade and will continue investing in Slurm’s development.

NVIDIA will accelerate SchedMD’s access to new systems — allowing users of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform to optimise workloads across their entire compute infrastructure — while also supporting a diverse hardware and software ecosystem, so customers can run heterogeneous clusters with the latest Slurm innovations.

NVIDIA will continue to offer open-source software support, training and development for Slurm to SchedMD’s hundreds of customers, which include cloud providers, manufacturers, AI companies and research labs spanning industries such as autonomous driving, healthcare and life sciences, energy, financial services, manufacturing and government.

Accenture to acquire Faculty to scale AI capabilities

Accenture has agreed to acquire Faculty, a UK-based AI native services and products business built on highly technical applied AI skills and a decision intelligence product that features advanced simulation and optimisation capabilities.

The acquisition will aim to expand Accenture’s capabilities to help its clients reinvent core and critical business processes with safe and secure AI solutions that result in tangible outcomes.

Founded in 2014, Faculty has a track record working with public and private sector clients to deploy AI solutions in the U.K. and other key markets. Its services include AI strategy, AI safety and the design, build and implementation of high performance AI systems.

Faculty works with some AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, to ensure that AI models are safe, as well as with the UK AI Security Institute and other organisations to make baseline safety assessments of general-purpose models.

Upon closing of the transaction, Faculty’s team of more than 400 AI native professionals, including data scientists and AI engineers, will integrate with Accenture’s teams to scale AI capabilities for clients.

In addition to his role as CEO of Faculty, Marc Warner will become chief technology officer of Accenture and join the company’s Global Management Committee. 

As part of the acquisition integration, Faculty FrontierTM, Faculty’s enterprise decision intelligence product, will join Accenture’s suite of products.

Accenture will also leverage Faculty’s Fellowship Program, an early career training and placement program that helps promising STEM PhD and master’s graduates as well as post-doctoral researchers transition from academia to industry. Building on the success of this program in the U.K., Accenture plans to extend the program globally to its people as well as to clients.

Accenture and Faculty have collaborated since December 2023 when Accenture was confirmed as a preferred implementation partner for Faculty FrontierTM.

WiseTech Global acquires Centre for Customs and Excise Studies

WiseTech Global has entered into an agreement to acquire the Centre for Customs and Excise Studies (CCES), a provider of training, education and research in the highly specialised area of customs and border management.

Established in Canberra, Australia, in 2003, CCES courses are accredited by the World Customs Organization (WCO) and focus on maintaining WCO and related professional standards at various levels in customs administration.

CCES has designed and delivered training and awareness programs in more than sixty countries across Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Pacific, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East.

Collaborating with tertiary institutions, such as Charles Sturt University, CCES provides internationally focused courses including the Bachelor of Border Management as well as postgraduate degrees in Customs Administration for global professionals.

From 2025, CCES partnered with Fiji National University and the Oceania Customs Organisation to establish the Pacific Centre for Border Management and Security (PCBMS), to offer vocational and higher education programs for border management officers in the Pacific.

CCES will continue to operate under the CCES brand and remain under the leadership of its founder, David Widdowson. CCES will consolidate its online platforms onto WiseTech Academy, WiseTech’s online learning platform.

The domain knowledge of CCES’ team will inform country-specific customs requirements in the ongoing rollout of the CargoWise Customs and Complianceglobal solution.