Publikováno: 24. 6. 2021
Sales of AXELOS – unexpected message
Yesterday – June 23, 2021 – there was a clear message in my mailbox that our partner in the field of IT service management (ITSM), AXELOS, is being sold to a new owner, PeopleCert! The report was officially published on June 21, 2021.
It did not take long for us to receive confirmation of this message from Kaimar Karu, who told us the following:
“This Monday, it was announced that AXELOS – a manager of frameworks and best practices and methods such as ITIL and PRINCE2 – will be sold to PeopleCert.”
The original notice is available here: https://kaimarkaru.medium.com/a-new-era-for-itil-prince2-d7d01915ae76
Author of the notice
Kaimar Karu was to be one of the speakers at our 14th Annual itSMF Czech Republic 2020 Conference. This eventually came to an end, thanks to the fact that Kaimar was appointed Minister of Foreign Trade and IT of Estonia. However, good relations with him were maintained.
Who are the sellers and buyers?
AXELOS
AXELOS is a joint venture between Capita (51%) and Cabinet Office (49%), responsible for developing, enhancing and promoting a number of best practice methodologies used by professionals working primarily in project, programme and portfolio management, and IT and digitally enabled services. The methodologies, including ITIL, PRINCE2 and MSP are adopted by private, public and voluntary sectors in more than 180 countries to improve employees’ skills, knowledge and competence in order to make both individuals and organisations work more effectively. Professionals at 90% of the world’s leading organisations use AXELOS’s best practice methodologies, under which 5 million people worldwide are certified today. The business has c.100 employees and in 2020 generated revenue of £42.9m and profit before tax of £24.3m. Further information can be found at: https://www.axelos.com/
About Capita
Capita is a consulting, transformation and digital services business. Every day our 55,000 colleagues help millions of people, by delivering innovative solutions to transform and simplify the connections between businesses and customers, governments and citizens. We partner with clients and provide the insight and cutting-edge technologies that give time back, allowing them to focus on what they do best and making people’s lives easier and simpler. We operate in the UK, Europe, India and South Africa – and currently across six divisions: Customer Management; Government Services; People Solutions; Software; Specialist Services; and Technology Solutions, shortly to be simplified into three divisions. Capita is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (CPI.L). Further information can be found at: http://www.capita.com
PeopleCert
PeopleCert is a global leader in the assessment and certification of professional skills, partnering with multi-national organisations and government bodies. PeopleCert develops and deliver market leading exams across 200 countries every year in 25 languages, through a network of 2,500 centres and 30,000 venues worldwide. Since 2018, PeopleCert has been the exclusive Examination Institute for the delivery of AXELOS’ programmes worldwide. Further information can be found at: https://www.peoplecert.org/
What does this mean for us?
Thanks to long-term good and fair relations, both with the buyer and with the author of the notice, we are again one step ahead and the whole transaction will not have any adverse consequences for individual itSMF branches around the world.
Autor:: Jaroslav Rokyta