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Business/Financial

Accenture Complete Acquisition of Defense Consulting Firm Gestalt

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Friday, January 4th, 2008

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Accenture [ACN] yesterday said it has completed its acquisition of Gestalt, LLC, a New Jersey-based consulting firm that provides mission support services to the Defense Department. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gestalt has about 250 employees. Gestalt's services help defense organizations achieve systems interoperability and collaboration, allowing information from separate military branches to share battlefield information in support of joint military operations. The company also provides services related to modeling and simulation, advanced decision-support technologies, energy- management solutions,…

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