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3Cloud

3cloudsolutions.com · Chicago, IL, USA

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Category
Cloud & data consultancies — pure-play Azure services firm; was PE-backed (Gryphon Investors), sale to Cognizant announced Nov 2025 and completed per Gryphon PR
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Services
Azure migration, data & AI (analytics platform modernization), app modernization, managed services; scaled via 2023 acquisition of Pragmatic Works' consulting arm (creating largest US Azure pure-play at the time)
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Pricing
Pricing was not publicly available when we checked.
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Founded
2016 (by ex-Microsoft leaders Mike Rocco and Jim Dietrich)
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Team signal
~1,200 employees (~700 US) per Cognizant acquisition coverage
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Platform partnerships
  • Microsoft Azure partner — multiple Microsoft Partner of the Year awards (Data & AI 2024; also Health & Life Sciences, Migration to Azure, Solution Assessments, Modernizing Applications); Microsoft has no public tier directory equivalent to AWS/Snowflake — award PRs used as evidence
PRIMARY SOURCEdirectory-verified entries are platform-computed credentials
Named practitioners
  • Mike Rocco — co-founder
  • Jim Dietrich — co-founder
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Case-study claims
  • No quantified case studies captured this pass
PROVIDER REPORTEDnumbers are the provider’s own; not independently verified
Lab note
Included as the reference Azure pure-play, but no longer independent — now part of Cognizant (GSI); buyers wanting boutique Azure delivery should note the ownership change
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Source register

All sources accessed 2026-08-31. Spot an error? Submit a correction — reviewed by a human, logged publicly.

  1. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gryphon-investors-completes-sale-of-3cloud-to-cognizant-302651744.html (accessed 2026-08-31)
  2. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/former-microsoft-leaders-launch-3cloud-llc-300343126.html (accessed 2026-08-31)
  3. https://www.consulting.us/news/12654/cognizant-expands-microsoft-azure-practice-with-3cloud-acquisition (accessed 2026-08-31)
  4. https://www.consulting.us/news/4845/3cloud-buys-pragmatic-works-consulting-bolsters-azure-capabilities (accessed 2026-08-31)