Tectonic Launches with Acquisition of Sakonent; Delivering Insight to Action by Automating the Full Suite of a CMO's Agenda

DENVER, Oct. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Tectonic, a Denver-based technology services company, announced its launch today with the acquisition of Sakonent, a premier CRM consultancy. Tectonic builds upon Chicago-based Sakonent's strengths to provide an integrated approach to automating big data, analytics, marketing automation, and customer relationship management tools in the cloud.

"We are excited to bring our insight to action automation expertise to improve how companies interact with their customers," said Blair Linville, Tectonic's chief executive officer. "Sakonent's tradition of innovation with cloud-based CRM will accelerate our ability to simplify and monetize our clients' digital customer interactions." 

Today's enterprises face increasing complexity in the technology they use to interact with their customers. Tectonic helps them navigate this process, simplifying and automating the CMO's core agenda: drawing insights about your customers to motivating them to action. 

Tectonic's more than 150 employees around the world are experts in creating scalable big data, analytics, marketing automation and CRM solutions on platforms such as Salesforce.com, Oracle, Microsoft, Teradata, Hadoop, Hbase, Python, Blackbaud and others, anchored by powerful off-shore delivery centers. The company will be headquartered in Denver, Colorado with offices in Chicago, Illinois and around the world. 

Sakonent's CEO, Darius Vaskelis, and COO, Akif Rahman, join Tectonic in key leadership roles. "For the last five years, Sakonent has emphasized that business process and user adoption come first, technology second," said Vaskelis. "We could not be more thrilled to join Tectonic and take insight to action automation to the cloud."

About Tectonic @gettectonic
Tectonic is a leading technology and business services company serving mid-sized business to enterprise customers with a focus on Insight to Action automation in the cloud. Insight to Action is the intersection of big data, analytics, marketing automation and CRM that provides an integrated approach to automating customer interaction. Headquartered in Denver, the company prides itself on working with innovators in informed customer interaction.  

About Sakonent @sakonent
Sakonent is a next gen CRM consultancy founded in 2009 headquartered in Chicago. They're proud to have been on the most recent Inc 5000 fastest growing companies list, and to have been profiled in Gartner's report on Salesforce.com CRM service providers alongside the largest world-class global systems integrators. Additionally, in partnership with Blackbaud, Microsoft, Oracle and other CRM technology providers, the firm implements, integrates and manages sales, marketing and customer service systems for joint clients across the globe.

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