Three of the most established technology companies in South-Eastern Europe - Next Consult (Bulgaria), btProvider (Romania) and C4 Nexus (Bulgaria) - have announced the formation of a strategic alliance under a new brand, Trimaranix, creating one of the largest technology consulting groups in the region.

According to a joint press release sent to AGERPRES on Thursday, Trimaranix combines advanced expertise in Salesforce Agentforce, SAP, e-commerce and data analytics to design, implement and operate agentic companies - organisations in which AI agents work autonomously alongside humans.

Global corporate spending on agentic AI technologies is estimated to reach 201.9 billion dollars in 2026, making it the fastest-growing segment of the enterprise technology industry.

With the launch of Trimaranix, Bucharest and Sofia are positioning themselves as hubs where these capabilities are developed and expanded, rather than merely acquired.

'AI agents are no longer a vision of the future but a present-day business necessity. Trimaranix is the result of ten years of working together, building trust and delivering results for clients around the world. This strategic alliance is the natural next step: we are combining our accumulated experience with the opportunities created by the AI era to generate measurable and sustainable competitive advantages for every client. The companies that act now will define the industries of the next decade, and we are here to ensure that our clients are among them,' said Orlin Dochev, Chief Executive Officer of Next Consult.

Together, Next Consult, btProvider and C4 Nexus generate more than 20 million euros in annual revenue and have delivered over 1,500 projects for more than 800 clients during their 17 years of activity.

The three companies bring together a team of more than 200 certified professionals and are recording annual growth of over 30%.

'btProvider has spent years building the data infrastructure that modern companies rely on. Through Trimaranix, we can combine this foundation with world-class AI capabilities and deliver results on a scale that none of the companies could have achieved individually. This is the moment when our region takes its place on the global technology stage,' said Liviu Carcia, Chief Executive Officer of btProvider.

Implementing AI agents within an organisation requires more than simply adopting an artificial intelligence model. Business processes must be redesigned so that agents have clearly defined responsibilities. The data underpinning decisions must be sufficiently reliable to support autonomous actions. At the same time, commercial activities - where revenue is generated - must be prepared for AI-assisted interactions on both sides of a transaction. Each of the three companies has spent the past decade developing one of these essential components.

Next Consult contributes expertise in applying AI agents to business processes. Its consultants redesign how organisations operate in areas such as sales, services and operations, enabling AI agents and humans to work together while keeping people in control of decision-making.

btProvider contributes expertise in the data infrastructure required by AI agents. The Bucharest-based company builds the information foundation for autonomous decision-making: clean, governed and real-time data. Without such data, AI agents operate on assumptions; with it, they can become reliable enough to support critical business processes.

C4 Nexus contributes expertise in e-commerce. For more than a decade, its teams have been developing platforms for global brands where AI agents interact with the market, analyse offers and complete transactions.

'Processes, data and e-commerce: together, the three companies cover all the essential components of an agentic company. The name Trimaranix reflects this logic. A trimaran owes its speed and stability to three hulls working together as a single vessel,' the press release said.

The alliance formalises a partnership that has been built gradually over the past decade. In 2021, Next Consult and btProvider created a joint venture that turned the group into one of the largest Salesforce consulting partners in the region and the official Salesforce reseller for Romania and Bulgaria. In 2022, a second joint venture with C4 Nexus added e-commerce development capabilities for international brands.

Trimaranix now brings these initiatives together under a single brand and shared leadership structure, while the three companies retain their operational independence.

The group's portfolio includes companies in telecommunications, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, retail and consumer goods across Europe and the Middle East.

For the next 12 months, Trimaranix's stated objective is to transform a significant portion of its existing client base into agentic companies - organisations that improve efficiency through the use of AI agents and a digital workforce operating alongside human teams. AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Oana Tilica; EN - writing by: Cristina Zaharia)