IDC MarketScape names Deloitte a global leader for Enterprise Performance Management

New York, NY 24 February 2015 – IDC has named Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) a leader globally for Enterprise Performance Management. This designation is based on capabilities examined in their recently released report: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Performance Management Business Consulting Services 2014 Vendor Assessment.

“We are pleased to acknowledge this recognition as it provides objective confirmation that we provide the best people, delivering the best performance management results to our clients,” states Mark Shilling, Information Management Practice Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “Our ability to innovate and practically apply some of the latest technology trends such as digital, cloud, and in memory data storage, allows us to help clients manage key performance drivers with more precision, faster, and at earlier points of impact, with deeper business partnering and agility.”

“Deloitte is proud to be recognized by clients as the most capable firm in providing the right mix of EPM business consulting services.” said Matt Schwenderman, Deloitte’s Performance Management Leader.

Specifically for Deloitte, the report notes, “In EPM consulting, Deloitte is seen as most capable of all firms at providing the necessary spectrum of business consulting services. Clients view Deloitte as among the most capable at leveraging appropriate analytics in an engagement, integrating the company's project team with the clients, and implementing risk awareness and solutions within other consulting engagements.”

IDC MarketScape is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the characteristics that explain a vendor's success in the marketplace and help anticipate its ascendancy. The IDC MarketScape defines Enterprise Performance Management as providing “the avenue for translating a company's strategy into measurable targets and monitoring and evaluating how it is doing. EPM gives senior executives a real-time picture of how the organization is performing relative to its targets, to allow it to make needed changes as quickly as possible and ensure the changes are aligned to way employees are evaluated.”

Additional findings

• Worldwide, Deloitte is viewed as a “well-known brand that delivers quality services,” according to client feedback.
• Worldwide, Deloitte is regarded as among the best of all firms at delivering value-creating innovation and at helping its clients manage risk and transform significant processes.
• Deloitte is also described as among the most capable at leveraging local and global staff appropriately, supporting business change across an organization, and transferring knowledge to the client.
• Deloitte is seen as better than many of its peers at helping clients manage enterprise performance risk, reduce costs in EPM projects, and transform performance management processes.
• Deloitte is also viewed as above average in the areas of delivering value-creating innovation, directly improving overall commercial performance, maximizing the value of a project, and providing functional, technical, or industry insights and competence.

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

About Deloitte

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