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Understand IT services company valuations, including size, growth, and profitability factors, to optimize business metrics for better outcomes

A guide to Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network — how the Select, Preferred, and Global Premier tiers work, who the major players are, and what the ecosystem reveals about the enterprise AI services market.

We counted 369 acquisitions of SAP-focused firms from 2015 to 2025, led by NTT DATA at around 23. The four kinds of buyer, what SAP consultancies sell for and what the S/4HANA deadline means for sellers.

The M&A activity in the IT Services sector grew steadily to a peak of 1,831 deals in 2022. It has since held near 1,500 transactions a year, with 1,565 in 2025.

Weighing whether and when to sell your IT staffing or contractor firm? This is who is buying firms like yours, and how.

For owners of HubSpot partner agencies weighing a sale: who is buying, how fast the channel is consolidating and what agencies sell for.

For MSP owners weighing a sale: who is buying managed service providers, what they pay and what happens to the business after closing.

Thrive has made 27 IT services acquisitions since 2016 and keeps its prices private, so the market is the reference: a median 9.9x EBITDA across 79 MSP deals. What it buys and what integration means.

On October 1, 2026, we hosted a live webinar titled “Data and Analytics Consultancies Valuations.”

Bechtle bought 45 IT services companies from 2015 to 2025, paying a median 0.95x revenue on the 23 deals we can price, almost entirely at closing. What it buys, where and what follows.

Thirty-seven of the 39 MSPs The 20 MSP bought from September 2022 to 2025 were already members of its peer group. What it buys, how it pays in cash with no earnouts and what follows closing.

You own a Microsoft 365 consultancy, Teams voice firm, MSP or security specialist and want to know who would buy it, and when.