The Hackett Group Wins Coveted Oracle Excellence Award: SaaS Innovation Solution of the Year

October 23, 2018
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Oracle Recognizes The Hackett Group’s Expertise In Delivering Innovative Cloud Edge Solution

MIAMI & LONDON, October 23, 2018 – Oracle awarded The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT) with its 2018 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year –SaaS Innovation Solution of the Year. The award recognizes The Hackett Group for its commitment to delivering innovative, specialized solutions and services using Oracle Cloud software and hardware.

The Hackett Group was presented the 2018 Oracle Excellence Award and named “Specialized Partner of the Year – SaaS Innovation Solution of the Year” – for developing a digital transformation platform (DTP) based on Oracle’s cloud applications. DTP is an edge SaaS solution that integrates The Hackett Group’s benchmarking data and best practices with Oracle’s suite of applications. Using DTP, Oracle and Hackett are working together to help customers identify performance gaps, address those gaps, and improve the speed and effectiveness of their Oracle application implementations.

The Oracle Excellence Awards for Specialized Partner of the Year encourage innovation by Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) members that use Oracle’s products and technology to create value for customers and generate new business potential.

“We are thrilled to receive this award from Oracle,” said Scott McHale, Oracle technology leader for The Hackett Group. “We continue to see DTP as our leading-edge product for Oracle. Currently DTP is being used as an edge entry point to many of Oracle’s cloud sales opportunities.”

 

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About The Hackett Group, Inc.

The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: HCKT) is an intellectual property-based strategic consultancy and leading enterprise benchmarking and best practices digital transformation firm to global companies, offering digital transformation including robotic process automation and enterprise cloud application implementation. Services include business transformation, enterprise analytics, working capital management and global business services. The Hackett Group also provides dedicated expertise in business strategy, operations, finance, human capital management, strategic sourcing, procurement and information technology, including its award-winning Oracle and SAP practices.

The Hackett Group has completed more than 17,850 benchmarking studies studies with major corporations and government agencies, including 93% of the Dow Jones Industrials, 90% of the Fortune 100, 80% of the DAX 30 and 57% of the FTSE 100. These studies drive its Best Practice Intelligence Center™ which includes the firm’s benchmarking metrics, best practices repository and best practice configuration guides and process flows, which enable The Hackett Group’s clients and partners to achieve world-class performance.

 

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