Hitachi Consulting
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| Division | |
| Industry | Professional services |
| Predecessor | Experio Solutions |
| Founded | Dallas, Texas (2000) |
| Headquarters | Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
Key people |
Hicham Abdessamad (President & CEO) Barry D. Honea (Chief Financial Officer) |
| Services | Management Consulting |
Number of employees | 6,500 (2015) |
| Parent | Hitachi |
| Website | http://www.hitachiconsulting.com |
Hitachi Consulting Corporation is an international management and technology consulting firm with headquarters in Dallas, Texas. It was founded in November 2000 as a subsidiary of the Japanese corporation Hitachi, and it currently employs approximately 6,500 people in the US, Japan, Brazil, China, India, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, the UK, and Vietnam.[1]
History
Hitachi Consulting was founded through the acquisition of Grant Thornton LLP’s (headquartered in Chicago, IL.) information technology and strategy consulting practice in November 2000. Three former Grant Thornton LLP principals (Chuck Scoville-COO, Mike Driessen-Sales/Marketing and Dan Raskas-Delivery of Services) were the founding leadership team along with 18 former Grant Thornton LLP partners and principals.
Since then, the company has acquired a number of consulting competitors including: WaveBend Solutions from BDO Seidman (June 2001), Tactica Technology (November 2001), Aspirity (April 2004), Dove Consulting (August 2005), Navigator Systems (February 2006), Impact Plus through the subsidiary Hitachi Consulting UK (April 2007), Iteration2 (June 2007) and JMN Associates (March 2008). After the dissolvement of Arthur Andersen, 23 partners and 370 consultants of Arthur Andersen Business Consulting (AABC) also joined the company in June 2002.
The U.S. subsidiary was originally named Experio Solutions until it was renamed Hitachi Consulting in May 2003 to leverage the Hitachi brand. The Japanese Hitachi company Exsurge was renamed in April 2006 accordingly.
Timeline
Hitachi Consulting Europe (HCE) was founded in March 2006 through the establishment of subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal. Since November 2005 the firm operates a "Global Solution Center" in India.
In March 2009 Hitachi Consulting successfully acquired Edenbrook Ltd, a UK-based Microsoft and Oracle implementation partner thus doubling its UK consulting and implementation capacity.
On January 4, 2011 - Hitachi Consulting announced it has acquired Sierra Atlantic, a leader in offshore enterprise applications and outsourced product development with approximately 2500 employees, headquartered in Newark, California, with development centers in Hyderabad and Guangzhou. The company was founded by Raju Reddy, Sarath Sura and Yeshwanth Reddy in 1993, and initiated business alliances with Oracle and Microsoft in 1994.[2]
On April 13, 2012, Hitachi Consulting acquired PRIZIM Inc. (PRIZIM), a consulting firm dedicated to sustainable environmental, energy, and social responsibility solutions. PRIZIM now serves as the Environmental Sustainability Solutions practice of Hitachi Consulting.[3]
On December 31, 2012, Hitachi Consulting acquired Celerant Consulting.
On May 1, 2014, Hitachi Consulting announced that it had acquired IMGROUP, a specialist UK-based provider of Information Management and Business Intelligence solutions.[4]
On October 1, 2014, Hitachi Consulting acquired Singapore-based Consulting Firm – Stone Apple Solutions, including their subsidiaries, Vietnamese-based Global CyberSoft (GCS) and Brazil-based F2C Consultoria.
References
- ↑ http://www.hitachiconsulting.com/files/pdfRepository/corp-overview.pdf
- ↑ "Hitachi Consulting acquires Sierra Atlantic.". The Times Of India. January 5, 2011.
- ↑ News Article. Hitachi Consulting. Retrieved on 2013-07-19.
- ↑ News Article. MarketWatch. Retrieved on 2014-05-01.
External links
- www.hitachiconsulting.com - Official Website of Hitachi Consulting.
- Hitachi Consulting UK.
- Sierra Atlantic
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