Cloud specialist Informed has an impressive client list – including Colliers International, NSW Education and Telstra – and its expertise will help expand and evolve oobe's cloud advisory practice, the company said.

Informed's cloud operations will continue to operate under the Informed banner, while founder Daryl Bishop will become national manager of oobe advisory.

"The acquisition is as much a story of mates as it is business," said Bishop. "CEO Stuart Kilduff and I worked together twenty years ago at Dasfleet. We both respected each other's ability, work-ethic and professionalism, and have tried to find an excuse to work together again ever-since. The stars aligned now, and here we are."

oobe CEO Stuart Kilduff said "The time has come to shake up the legacy ICT experience and help organisations transform their cloud operations.

"At oobe, we live and breathe cloud operations, and together with the Informed team we will be focusing heavily in building out this space with frameworks and implementation tasks to make it easier for clients to transform their operations into cloud.

"The gap we see is organisations being able to pivot from legacy operational structures to an agile cloud delivery model to not only make use of the technology but to squeeze every bit of value from it as they can. ICT organisations in the modern age are about maximising the benefits of technology for their internal workforce and ultimately their customers.

"You simply can't do that with the legacy operating model that has been in operation for the past 20 years. We're excited to see where this acquisition will take oobe and our clients."