IBM announced it has acquired Hakkoda Inc., a leading global data and AI consultancy. Hakkoda will expand IBM Consulting’s data transformation services portfolio, adding specialized data platform expertise to help clients prepare their data to advance AI-based business operations.
Hakkoda is an award-winning Snowflake partner and capable of migrating, modernizing, and monetizing data estates. This acquisition enhances IBM’s ability to meet the rapidly growing demand for data services and help clients build integrated enterprise data estates that are optimized for speed, cost, and efficiency across multiple business use cases.
Hakkoda also features a strong portfolio of generative AI-based assets that can speed up data modernization projects. The company’s industry solutions complement and build on its consultants’ deep expertise in financial services, public sector, healthcare, and life sciences. Hakkoda will further expand IBM’s ability to bring consulting expertise and AI to clients using its AI-based delivery platform, IBM Consulting Advantage.
As an Elite Snowflake partner, Hakkoda features hundreds of SnowPro core and advanced certifications. And they were named the 2024 Snowflake Healthcare & Life Sciences Services Partner of the Year and 2023 Snowflake Americas System Integrator Innovation Partner of the Year. Hakkoda is also an advanced-tier partner of AWS.
Hakkoda is based in New York and brings hundreds of experts across the United States, Latin America, India, Europe, and the United Kingdom to IBM Consulting.
The deal closed on April 2, 2025, and financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
KEY QUOTES:
“IBM is at the leading edge of the consulting industry with how we’re supercharging our consultants with AI. With Hakkoda’s data expertise, deep technology partnerships and asset-centric delivery model, IBM will be even better positioned to deliver value faster to clients as they transform with AI.”
- Mohamad Ali, Senior Vice President and Head of IBM Consulting
“From the beginning, Hakkoda has committed to being ‘in the arena’, not observing the greatest transformation in history but shaping it. It is because of this that we are excited to join IBM at this critical moment when organizations are looking for a trusted partner to help them modernize their data for the AI era. IBM’s heritage of innovation, their commitment to discovery and deep partnerships with clients on their most technical challenges is a perfect pairing to take Hakkoda’s industry focused modern data consulting to the global marketplace.”
- Erik Duffield, CEO and Co-founder of Hakkoda
