Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced its intent to acquire Experity, a leading provider of cloud-based customer experience and commerce solutions in Brazil. Experity helps businesses build greater efficiencies and agility in commerce, marketing, content and data through leading cloud-based technologies. Accelerated by the pandemic, Brazil’s e-commerce spending has reached historic levels – nearly $10 billion in the first six months of the year – pushing brands to rapidly reimagine their commerce experience.

International Business Machines Corp. won hybrid cloud deals with a number of Africa’s largest banks including South Africa’s Nedbank and Morocco’s Attijariwafa Bank. The U.S. tech giant is working with as many as six banks on the continent spanning from Mozambique to Nigeria. The deals will allow its African banking clients to store their information with some of it held internally in what’s known as private cloud and other data stored in public clouds.