Global staffing firm Aquent acquires Iowa City-based Workgroups DaVinci

Aquent, a workforce solutions company in Boston, announced Friday the acquisition of Workgroups DaVinci, a workflow and project management solutions firm in Iowa City.

Workgroups DaVinci will join RoboHead, a leading project management solution for in-house marketing and creative under Aquentโ€™s Software-as-a-Service division.

โ€œWith more than 30 years of experience working with marketing and creative professionals, we drive innovation within the project management solutions space and know exactly what in-house creative teams need, without the guesswork,โ€ said John H. Chuang, CEO of Aquent, in a release. โ€œAquentโ€™s acquisition of Workgroups DaVinci is another step toward establishing industry leadership and empowering our customers with personalized cloud-based technology to efficiently execute their creative visions.โ€

RoboHead is a work management tool for marketers and creatives that offers project request and review tools, workload insights and KPI visibility in a cloud-based application. This division of Aquent is responsible for the creation of the RoboHead 10000, a tool that measures the real-time productivity of marketing departments across industries, geographies and company sizes, according to a press release. Workgroups DaVinci clients will migrate to the RoboHead 10000 database.

โ€œThe Workgroups DaVinci team will be a welcome and robust addition to our team of creative and project management software experts,โ€ said Daniel Perez, president of RoboHead. โ€œTheir invaluable experience will support our mission of maximizing productivity and quantifying the value of our clientsโ€™ creative deliverable process.โ€

In addition to the Aquent Staffing brand and RoboHead, Aquent LLC has several other business units including Vitamin T, Aquent Studios, Aquent Scout, Aquent Gymnasium.