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The Adaptavist Group acquires D|OPS Digital. The Adaptavist Group announced the acquisition of D|OPS Digital, a DevSecOps consultancy that increases the efficiency and speed of software delivery. With the acquisition, The Adaptavist Group augments its DevOps capabilities, providing a comprehensive suite of services for enterprises looking to accelerate digital transformation, enhance their developer experience, and optimize their software development lifecycle. D|OPS Digital brings a strong track record of delivering complex DevOps and Developer Experience transformations for leading global enterprises, including major banks and automobile manufacturers. Its expertise will be embedded within Adaptavist, The Adaptavist Group's flagship consultancy business on October 1. The acquisition will bolster key DevOps consulting service areas, including strategy development to align technology initiatives with business goals, and maturity assessments to evaluate existing processes and recommend improvements. The Adaptavist Group's enterprise customers will also benefit from process and toolchain optimization, platform engineering, and Developer Experience design and execution. Furthermore, the collaboration will support enhanced developer-to-operations collaboration to foster stronger cross-team alignment and tailored serverless management solutions to enable scalable and cost-effective infrastructures. The move will also enable seamless vendor integration with providers such as GitLab, HashiCorp, DataDog, Harness, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), while further enhancing partnerships with best-of-breed platforms including Atlassian and monday.com. Focused platform training is also offered to strengthen team expertise and performance. D|OPS Digital's workforce will be merged into the existing Adaptavist professional services business and the wider team. The addition of D|OPS Digital's talent bolsters Adaptavist's leadership capabilities in sales, resales, and solution delivery, with D|OPS Digital leaders assuming senior roles within the business. This includes Ben Boswell as Head of Strategic Accounts, Neil Duff as Head of Consulting Services Sales, and Fraser Scallan as Interim Head of Delivery and Engineering. Together, this team enhances Adaptavist's capability to drive customer engagement, deliver complex engagements, and support long-term business growth.