Pythian Group Explained

Pythian
Type:	Private company
Foundation:	1997
Industry:	IT services, IT consulting
Services:	IT Services IT Consulting Managed services
Area Served:	Worldwide
Location City:	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Location Country:	United States
Num Employees:	500+

Pythian Services Inc, commonly known as Pythian, is an American and Canadian multinational corporation that provides data and cloud-related services. Pythian Services provides services for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra and other databases, including services for their supporting infrastructure. It also provides transformation services that include cloud migration services, cloud managed services and analytics data platform design and management products and services. Pythian has partnerships with major public cloud vendors including Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

History

The company is based in Ottawa, Ontario, and has offices in New York City, London, and Hyderabad, India.

Founded by Paul Vallée in 1997, the company employs approximately 400 employees. In 2014 they acquired Blackbird.io, which was formerly PalominoDB and DriveDev. In 2019 Pythian was acquired by Mill Point Capital,^[1] a middle-market private equity firm focused on control-oriented investments in North American IT services, business services, and industrial companies.

Products and services

Pythian is the creator of Adminiscope, a privileged access-management and supervision product.

Blackbird is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Pythian Group, following its acquisition in 2014. The DevOps and data services provider acquisition made Pythian one of the largest open-sourced database and managed-service companies globally.^[2]

In 2018, Pythian announced Tehama, a SaaS product. The software was made to manage third-party vendors and freelancers. It targets common problems such as mailing laptops or monitoring work activity.^[3] The SaaS product was formed as a subsidiary startup of The Pythian Group.^[4]

In 2019, Pythian Services was acquired by NYC based private equity firm Mill Point Capital. In 2020, Pythian purchased Agosto, a Minneapolis-based Google Cloud reseller and IT service management company specializing in IoT.^[5] In 2021, Pythian acquired ManageServe, a Chicago-based SAP managed & professional services company.

Awards and recognition

Pythian was listed in Canada's Top Small and Medium Employers of 2015.^{[6] [7]} In 2013^[8] and 2014^{[9] [10]} they received the Global Outsourcing 100 Rising Star by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.^[11]

Pythian was ranked 91st on the Branham Group Inc's list of 2015 Top 250 Canadian ICT Companies.^[12]

Pythian received the 2018 Google Cloud Global Data Analytics Partner of the Year award.^[13]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mill Point Capital Announces Carve-Out of Pythian Services Business.
2. Web site: Pythian Broadens Data Management Services with Blackbird.io Acquisition . DBTA . June 26, 2014.
3. Web site: Techopia Live: Pythian side business Tehama secures the international workforce . . September 27, 2018.
4. Web site: Jackson . Brian . Pythian to launch SaaS platform Tehama as a startup . IT World Canada . September 11, 2018.
5. Web site: Tsidulko. Joseph. 2020-04-02. Google Channel Merger: Pythian Acquires Agosto. 2020-06-15. CRN.
6. Web site: Canada's Top 100 Employers .
7. Web site: National Capital Region's Top Employers.
8. Web site: PYTHIAN NAMED A 2013 GLOBAL OUTSOURCING RISING STAR.
9. Web site: The 2014 Global Outsourcing 100 SUB-LISTS.
10. Web site: 2014 GLOBAL OUTSOURCING 100 RISING STAR.
11. Web site: IAOP - The 2022 Global Outsourcing 100 . 2023-11-21 . www.iaop.org.
12. Web site: Branham Group 2015 Top 250 Canadian ICT Companies.
13. Web site: Pythian Wins 2018 Google Cloud Data Analytics Partner of the Year Award Financial Post. Releases. Business Wire News. 2019-04-09. en-CA. 2020-04-03.