JANUARY 24, 2020 THE WEEKLY BUSINESS PAPER OF GREATER OMAHA, LINCOLN AND COUNCIL BLUFFS VOL. 46 NO. 4 targets Omaha with Deliveron acquisition by Richard D. Brown livery teams to basically rebuild that firm’s With its recent acquisition of Omaha- business and wellness platforms. The proj- based Deliveron, a 14-year-old home- ect was an investment of “tens of millions grown technology consultant that is coming of dollars,” he said. off a 40% growth in revenues in each of “Now they are able to be competitive the past two years, Green House Data — a with both smaller and larger competitors,” multi-state digital transformation services Weland said. provider — plans to build a strong footprint Mills, a Fort Worth, , native and in the Midwest. 1996 graduate of the finance program at the University of Texas, said the firm he heads Deliveron has grown with a diversity of projects. Phone: 402-238-1399 Smaller projects might include building Address: 11516 Miracle Hills Dr., Suite 201, mobile applications for customer client Omaha 68154 service initiatives while larger undertakings Services: technology consulting might involve rewriting a client’s back-end Founded: 2006 by Lucas Sahm and John office processing system. Weland Digital transformation assignments Employees: 34 provide a big growth opportunity, he said. One-year goal: Facilitate acquisition by “We’re seeing a 200% increase in this Green House Data and its integration plan. division,” he said. Industry outlook: Significant growth op- Earlier this month, Green House Data portunities await in new cloud-application added Victor Tingler as senior vice presi- development. dent of digital transformation. Website: www.deliveron.com Tingler, a former vice president of cloud transformation systems at Trace3, -based Green House Data, a From left, Deliveron founders John Weland and Lucas Sahm … The firm’s acquisition vice president of consulting and cloud so- privately-held company with 150 employ- comes as it sees opportunities for continued growth. lutions at InterVision, director of channel ees founded in 2007 by CEO , Healthcare, Tenaska, Orion, Alegent Health eron to expand not only across the nation engineering at CenturyLink, and global CIO Cortney Thompson and CTO Thomas and British Petroleum, among others. but also across industries. master architect at EDS, was necessary to Burns, has grown by making one acquisi- “We now have the ability to help our Weland, a 1999 UNO computer science take Green House Data’s expertise to the tion annually over the past five years. In ad- customers build, deploy, host, and manage graduate, said Deliveron made an important next level, Mills said. dition to Wyoming, the firm has a presence modern apps that drive differentiation and decision when it started in 2015 incorporat- Mills noted that continued growth of in , , Texas, , innovation,” Sahm said. “We are excited to ing DevOps Enablement product quality firms such as Green House Data is depen- and Toronto, Ontario. join a rapidly growing IT service provider and change processes into its work. dent on being ready to serve customers in “We have a nationwide search for to help clients reach their goals around data An attractive feature to Green House a highly customized, always-available way. companies that excel in providing digital center modernization, workload migration, Data in making the acquisition was the Catering to unique needs and steep cus- transformation services and Omaha rose to and agile DevOps processes.” delivery team model used by Deliveron in tomer demands is a necessary requirement the top of our list,” Mills said. “Deliveron Weland said he’s been told that the de- serving its clients. For example, in a proj- to keep providers on an upward trajectory. provided a high level of service to provid- livery model developed and perfected by ect involving software development — the “One of the common denominators for ers nationally and was seeking to expand Deliveron, with Omaha talent over several largest share of the firm’s revenues — a us in hiring is that we need to see a growth its capabilities in digital transformation years, has been a differentiating factor. four to six person team is commissioned to mindset and an ability to learn new things,” services. We’re convinced that Omaha “It provides customers a high perform- take the task. The core of the group might Mills said. provides us with tremendous opportunities ing Agile team as a service,” he said. “It can include a delivery manager, delivery engi- That will be important as Green House in a very dynamic market.” now be grown and scaled to help empower neer, business analyst, quality analyst, user Data continues to meet the challenge of Details regarding a new name for the more customers on their digital transforma- experience interface designer, as well as tackling the needs of some of the country’s merged businesses have not been fully tion journey.” testing personnel. In addition, a representa- largest corporations. worked out. Sahm, a 1998 University of Nebraska tive of the customer can also be included. Deliveron was founded in 2006 by at Omaha management information systems “The big benefit is the agility, abil- Reprinted with permission Omahans Lucas Sahm and John Weland. graduate, said Deliveron has about 70 to 80 ity and knowledge that the team uses on from the publisher of MBJ Inc. It is headquartered in about 20,000 square customers around the country with strong projects that might take from three to 12 from the January 24, 2020 issue of the feet on the second floor at 11516 Miracle concentrations in industries that include months,” Weland explained. Midlands Business Journal Hills Drive. The firm is adding space on finance, energy, health care and education. Weland recalls a project about five another level of the building. Partnerships with firms such as Micro- years ago for a Chicago-based health care This permission is for photo and article reproduction or placement on your Web site. Clients include Think Whole Person soft and Design Map have enabled Deliv- business that deployed eight different de-