Deloitte Ascend™ Expands Capabilities to Help Clients Transform the Delivery Lifecycle With Generative AI

NEW YORK, April 2, 2024  — Today Deloitte announced an expansion of its Deloitte Ascend™ platform with Generative AI capabilities and process accelerators to help advance clients’ transformation journeys. Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) have ushered in a new era, with AI applications continuously evolving to meet elevated customer expectations. The new capabilities within Deloitte’s Ascend platform harness this momentum, applying it to the complexities and rigor of enterprises’ applications delivery lifecycle.

“Deloitte’s Ascend expansion is designed to leverage AI’s ability to infuse real-time insights into the value chain and connect previously siloed business processes,” said Chip Kleinheksel, Enterprise Performance Generative AI leader, and principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “The Deloitte Ascend integrated delivery platform combines our leading industry experience with the engineering capabilities, methodology, and purpose-built technology needed to deliver on the transformative promise of Generative AI. From journey design through go-live, Ascend can help business and operations leaders successfully unleash the power of AI.”

By embedding Generative AI applications throughout the delivery lifecycle, Ascend helps clients free up resources from mundane tasks to focus on high-value activities to improve business outcomes and identify new opportunities. Deloitte’s deep domain experience and diverse data engineering talent pool — strengthened further by recent acquisitions of Optimal Design, Dextra Technologies, SFL Scientific and HashedIn Technologies, and OpTeamizer— bring Generative AI for Ascend to life.

Ascend uses technology to help tackle common transformation challenges, including manual data entry, process redocumentation, and otherwise potentially missed insight and design opportunities by leveraging Deloitte’s global wealth of knowledge across technology, AI, tax and cyber. Ascend is engineered to enable the entire delivery lifecycle - from value case, process design, program management, and project documentation, to autonomous capabilities including code development, data conversion and validation, and test case generation and execution.

“Today’s enterprises are tasked with sustaining their data and process lifecycle amid constant disruption and at the same time, the pace of AI advancement is requiring organizations to radically re-imagine their products and business model,” said Abdi Goodarzi, principal, Enterprise Performance portfolio leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “Our new Ascend Generative AI capabilities are designed to enable delivery with AI engineering. Through the continual inclusion of the latest capabilities, organizations can benefit from better performance levels, enriched program excellence, acceleration, and safe passage capabilities.” 

Following the launch of its Generative AI practice in 2023, Deloitte continues to scale its AI ecosystem, offering tailored end-to-end client services from developing enterprise AI strategies to implementing solutions across Cloud, Cyber, and Strategy & Analytics. Deloitte is infusing Generative AI across the enterprise and rolling out purpose specific LLMs to drive productivity and domain depth for greater client impact. Additionally, Deloitte is increasing AI fluency, training more than 120,000 professionals as part of the next generation of AI talent via the Deloitte AI Academy TM, as well as investing more than $2 billion in global technology learning and development initiatives through the Deloitte Technology Academy program, to boost skills in AI as well as other key industries and functional areas. To learn more about Deloitte Ascend, visit Deloitte Ascend™ | Deloitte US.

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