The alliance is led by former Capgemini employees Amit Bassi (managing director of Blazeclan ANZ), Nick Finlayson (executive director of Innovo Technology) and Paul Thorley (chair of the Blazeclan/Innovo strategic alliance).

They believe they have an opportunity to take market share from the major systems integrators.

The alliance has access to more than 500 technical experts located in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and Pune providing AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Azure expertise, plus subject matter experts in France, Belgium, North America and Canada.

It will offer advisory, engineering, assurance and managed services for digital, cloud and data platforms.

"Australia's adoption of cloud technology and services has been relatively slow compared to the rest of Asia Pacific. We've found that current cloud service providers are slow to implement, exorbitantly costly and miss the mark on building cloud cybersecurity resiliency," said Finlayson.

Bassi said "Cloud services are defining new business models, facilitating a more innovative and dynamic way of driving digital experience, and are unlocking the next wave of modernisation.

"We saw a huge opportunity to offer an end-to-end cloud enabled digital transformation service that starts from strategy through to agile delivery using the same one local team. This, in turn allows the customer to shift to a more dynamic and responsive way of running their business. We do this in a bespoke way, with one localised onshore team that is supported by an offshore team to take on enterprise sized projects, with a 24/7 operations."

Joint customers include ANZ Bank, ACCC and Latitude Financial.

"Getting fast access to best-of-breed cloud solutions from the likes of AWS – of which Blazeclan is one of Asia Pacific's most successful consulting partner – is a must-have for our customers," said Thorley.

"We're thrilled to, once again, be leading with a powerhouse alliance and cloud services offering that enables our customers to power to new heights."