consulting founded april 4 2000 headquarters seattle washington key people adam warby ceo dave seybold coo ken guthrie cfo stella goulet cmo stephen kelly chro ashish kumar chief growth officer chris miller chief technology innovation officer bob bruns cio revenue 2 billion fiscal year 2015 number of employees 29 000 parent accenture microsoft website www.avanade.com avanade inc. was founded in 2000 as a joint venture between accenture and microsoft to serve an untapped market for microsoft focused consulting services . the company provides it services focused on the microsoft platform for mid sized to large enterprise organizations . headquartered in seattle washington the company has 70 locations worldwide and employs more than 29 000 professionals . today avanade is majority owned by accenture . contents 1 history 1.1 acquisitions 2 operations 2.1 america 2.2 europe 2.3 asia pacific 2.4 africa 3 talent communities 4 finances 5 legal issues of note 6 references 7 external links history edit avanade was formed in april 2000 as a joint venture between accenture and microsoft . ownership was initially split between the two founding companies with accenture owning 51 % and microsoft 49 % . 1 in 2001 however accenture increased its ownership to become the majority owner and avanade became a subsidiary of accenture . 2 through the joint venture accenture and microsoft looked to enter what they perceived to be a largely untapped market for microsoft focused consulting services for companies in the fortune 1000 . 3 4 acquisitions edit to date avanade has acquired ten other firms in 2003 avanade acquired brisbane based dcg a firm specializing in ebusiness consulting and integration . 5 in 2003 avanade acquired st. louis based g.a. sullivan a technology services company . 6 in 2005 avanade acquired chicago based en tegrate a services firm specializing in microsoft ax deployments . 7 in 2007 avanade acquired copenhagen based hob business solutions a services firm specializing in microsoft dynamics ax solutions . 8 in 2008 avanade acquired ghent belgium based quadreon a services firm specializing in microsoft dynamics ax solutions . 9 in 2010 avanade acquired the us portion of the crm practice from ascentium a us based consulting firm . 10 in 2011 avanade acquired kiel based econnex ag a services firm specializing in microsoft dynamics crm solutions . 11 in 2012 avanade acquired azaleos a seattle based american corporation specializing in managed messaging collaboration and unified communications services for microsoft exchange microsoft sharepoint microsoft active directory and microsoft lync and blackberry enterprise server . 12 in 2015 avanade acquired kcs.net one of the largest microsoft dynamics erp partners in germany switzerland and austria a leading microsoft dynamics crm partner and has a fast growing microsoft sharepoint business . 13 in 2015 avanade acquired cloudtalent a strategic infrastructure and cloud advisory 14 business headquartered in the united kingdom 15 operations edit avanade operates its business in more than 70 cities across north america europe asia south america and the pacific . these locations include america edit united states canada brazil argentina mexico puerto rico europe edit austria belgium denmark finland france germany italy latvia netherlands norway slovakia spain sweden switzerland united kingdom asia pacific edit australia china india japan malaysia philippines singapore africa edit south africa morocco mauritius india idc china cdc and the philippines pdc supply avanade with offshore consultants housed in parent company accenture s delivery centers . overall these offshore workers comprise over 40 % of avanade s total workforce . avanade relies heavily on offshore workers in india china and other developing countries to help their customers reduce costs . 16 17 18 talent communities edit avanade s talent community portfolio includes account leadership analytics business & technology integration business leadership business operations change enablement crm delivery management devops & agile coaching ecosystem & alliance management enterprise technology architecture erp experience design finance human resources industry solutions & services infrastructure it operations legal marketing platforms & offerings sales security software engineering strategy finances edit according to the puget sound business journal as of 2008 avanade is 80 percent owned by accenture plc formerly andersen consulting a multinational software and outsourcing firm . microsoft owns about 17 percent of the company . the original founding members and early employees own the remaining 3 percent . avanade s business model is heavily dependent on accenture . nearly 65 % avanade s revenue comes from accenture primarily by serving as a subcontractor to accenture . in fiscal year 2007 avanade grew revenues by 23 % to 593 million and increased its global number of employees by 22 % . revenues were led by the company s operations in north america 51 % followed by europe 39 % then asia pacific 9 % as of 2008 almost half of avanade s 8 000 workforce are accenture employees on contract to avanade . 1 a significant portion of avanade s total revenue is obtained by subcontracting for accenture and microsoft . in fiscal year 2007 that amounted to more than 70 % of total revenue for the company . 16 in 2000 avanade was formed as a joint venture between accenture then andersen consulting and microsoft . microsoft contributed 385 million cash 19 to support avanade . legal issues of note edit in 2006 avanade began filing financial disclosure reports with the securities and exchange commission a requirement even for the privately held avanade when their number of shareholders exceeded 500 . avanade had 1 100 shareholders at the time of first filing in 2006 . 2 while writing about the contents of the public sec disclosure seattle times noted that then avanade ceo mitch hill s brother mark hill was on avanade s payroll with a 7 000 per month contract . mark hill who is chairman of california s marin county republican central committee was employed by avanade to facilitate the company in developing business with certain california governmental agencies . 3 in may 2008 ceo mitch hill announced that he would be leaving avanade to be replaced per board of directors vote by uk general manager adam warby . warby a uk citizen announced he will continue to work from avanade s london office while avanade remains headquartered in seattle washington usa . 4 references edit microsoft and andersen consulting announce expanded alliance microsoft website . march 13 2000 . software notebook a microsoft joint venture gets big quietly . seattle post intelligencer . october 2 2006 . microsoft andersen team up . seattle post intelligencer . march 14 2000 . microsoft teams up with andersen . seattle times . march 14 2000 . dead link avanade buys into queensland with dcg . arn . march 11 2003 . microsoft joint venture buys midwest consulting and software developer . puget sound business journal . may 27 2003 . avanade acquires chicago company . puget sound business journal . march 2 2005 . avanade acquires danish erp consultant hob business solutions a s. tmcnet . november 2 2007 . avanade acquires quadreon . avanade . june 2008 . avanade to acquire ascentium microsoft dynamics crm practice . market wire . april 2010 . becomes leading microsoft dynamics crm service provider in germany ; expands european crm capabilities . avanade.com press release . 2011 11 07 . retrieved 2015 08 07 . avanade completes acquisition of azaleos . avanade acquires kcs.net to expand microsoft dynamics capabilities across germany switzerland and austria . cloudtalent it transformation . cloudtalent.co.uk . retrieved 2016 08 18 . avanade acquires cloudtalent a strategic cloud and infrastructure advisory firm . a b avanade annual report 2007 . sec edgar website avanade website office 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