Dive Brief:
- Accenture will acquire Netherlands-based SAP consulting and services firm McCoy, the company said in a Tuesday announcement. The deal will add more than 380 ERP modernization professionals to Accenture Edge, the consulting company’s midmarket services unit, which launched in June.
- McCoy engineers and consultants will contribute to Advance, a joint initiative Accenture rolled out with SAP last year to help drive adoption of the software giant’s cloud-based ERP and business suite, per the announcement. Advance provides customers with preconfigured finance, procurement, supply chain and workforce management services.
- “Joining Accenture Edge will allow us to build on what has made McCoy successful: deep SAP expertise, close client relationships and an entrepreneurial approach to delivery,” McCoy Co-founder Tom van den Berg said in the release. “Together, we can offer clients broader SAP, technology and AI capabilities to support their growth, while giving our people access to new expertise, international projects and career opportunities.”
Dive Insight:
Accenture Edge’s first acquisition deepens the unit's SAP bench and advances two additional objectives the unit was created to address: adding midmarket enterprises clients, and expanding outside North America.
“McCoy will play an important role in the growth of Accenture Edge across Europe,” Srini Subramanian, CEO of Accenture Edge, said in the release. "Its entrepreneurial culture and track record serving midmarket clients make it an excellent fit for our strategy and ambitions for the region.”
McCoy, which was founded in 2012, has satellite offices in Spain and the Philippines and offers SAP integration and managed services.
The deal provides an early glimpse of Accenture’s M&A strategy for Edge, according to Jessica Davis, principal analyst at Channel Dive sister company Omdia.
“It fits with the broader convergence we’re seeing, where systems integrators are moving further into managed services while larger MSPs are adding more project-based work and business application capabilities,” Davis said. “But at first glance, McCoy still looks like a project-led business, with managed services as an extension of that work. In that sense, it still feels very consistent with Accenture’s systems integration roots.”
The line separating consulting and systems integration from managed services is eroding as private equity funds flow into the channel and M&A activity picks up globally. The number of EMEA deals involving managed services providers nearly tripled year over year to 17 in the first three months of 2026, according to Omdia. In North America, there were 37 Q1 MSP acquisitions — eight more than the analyst firm tracked in the first quarter of 2025.
Omdia has seen moderate but persistent growth in SIs providing managed services in Europe, Davis said.
“In our most recent analysis, managed services revenue delivered by SIs to large customers with 500 or more employees grew about 7% in Western, Central and Eastern Europe,” she said. “So I’d look at managed services as an established and growing part of the SI model, rather than something that is suddenly taking off and fundamentally changing that model.”
Accenture did not disclose the financial terms of the McCoy deal, which will be finalized following regulatory approvals.
