Acquisition leverage Crayon was acquired by SoftwareOne in July 2025, presenting an opportunity to align Crayon’s IT services and consulting strengths with SoftwareOne’s global cloud and software solutions to cross-sell integrated offerings and expand footprint across joint customers.

Cloud and software focus SoftwareOne’s emphasis on cloud, software, and data and AI enables a compelling sales angle to position Crayon’s capabilities within a broader modernisation journey, targeting customers seeking cost optimization, procurement simplification, and scalable cloud migrations.

Enterprise scale With Crayon employing roughly 1,000 to 5,000 professionals and SoftwareOne’s 13,000+ global professionals, there is potential for large enterprise deals, complex IT transformations, and multi-region deployments across diverse industries.

Cost optimization play Clients seeking to optimize software licensing, cloud spend, and IT procurement can be targeted using Crayon’s and SoftwareOne’s combined capabilities, including licensing management tools and cost governance to drive measurable savings.

Security and data readiness Leveraging Microsoft Defender XDR and SQL expertise, there is an opportunity to offer security-aware cloud adoption, data protection, and compliant IT operations as part of end-to-end cloud and software modernization engagements.