- Hitachi Consulting
Infobox_Company
company_name = Hitachi Consulting Corp.
company_type =Corporation
foundation =Dallas ,Texas (2000)
location =Dallas ,Texas , U.S.
key_people = D. Michael Travis (President & CEO)
Barry D. Honea (Chief Financial Officer)
Philip R. Parr (Chief Operating Officer, U.S.)
Jim Schuchard (Chief Operating Officer, Europe)
industry =Professional services
services =Consulting
num_employees = 2,000 (2007)
homepage = [http://www.hitachiconsulting.com http://www.hitachiconsulting.com]Hitachi Consulting is an international management and technology consulting firm with headquarters in
Dallas ,Texas . It was founded in 2000 as subsidiary of the Japanese Hitachi Group and currently employs approximately 2,000 people in the U.S., Japan, the UK, Spain, Portugal and Germany.History
Hitachi Consulting was founded through the acquisition of Grant Thornton’s consulting branch in November 2000. Since then the company has acquired a number of competitors, such as WaveBend Solutions from BDO Seidman (June 2001), Tactica Technology (November 2001), Aspirity (April 2004), Dove Consulting (August 2005), Impact Plus through the subsidiary Hitachi Consulting UK (April 2007), Iteration2 (June 2007) and JMN Associates (March 2008). After the dissolvment of
Arthur Andersen , 23 partners and 370 consultants of Andersen Business Consulting (AABC) also joined the company in June 2002.The U.S. subsidiary did not go by the name Hitachi Consulting until May 2003. The Japanese Hitachi company Exsurge was renamed in April 2006 accordingly.
Hitachi Consulting Europe (HCE) was founded in March 2006 through the establishment of subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal and most recently Germany. Since November 2005 the firm operates a Global Solution Center in India.
Company profile
Hitachi Consulting stands in direct competition with consulting firms such as
Accenture ,BearingPoint ,Deloitte orIBM Global Services and focuses on a wide variety of subjects and industries. The company offers solutions in corporate management, customer and channel, strategic technology and supply chain.35% of the Fortune 100 and 25% of the Global 100 companies are among Hitachi Consulting’s customers. The firm has strategic alliances with
Microsoft (Gold Certified Partner),Oracle Corporation (Certified Advantage Partner), SAP (Services Alliance Partner),Lawson andHyperion .ources
* [http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/04/12/hitachi_acquires_impact_plus/ www.channelregister.co.uk]
* [http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2837&d=23&h=5&f=3 www.knowledgeboard.com]
* [http://www.techworld.com/networking/features/index.cfm?featureid=3804 www.techworld.com]
* [http://www.consultant-news.com/article_display.aspx?p=adp&id=2582 www.consultant-news.com]External links
* [http://www.hitachiconsulting.com www.hitachiconsulting.com] - Official Website of Hitachi Consulting.
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