The Hackett Group Names HP & Shell as 2018 Digital Award Winners; Companies on the Cutting Edge of Smart Automation, Robotic Process Automation, Cognitive Computing and Analytics

The Hackett Group (NASDAQ:HCKT) today announced that HP and Shell are the winners of its 2018 Digital Awards, which spotlight companies that are on the cutting edge of digital transformation, including smart automation, robotic process automation, cognitive computing and advanced analytics.

HP won the award in the automation category for its Finance Digital Transformation implementation, while Shell won in the advanced analytics category for its Data Science Center of Excellence project.

Four other companies were also recognized as finalists. In the automation category, the finalists were HCR ManorCare and The Adecco Group. For advanced analytics, the finalists were Pfizer and Vodafone.

The Hackett Group’s Digital Awards (formerly the Aecus Automation Awards) spotlights and celebrates companies on the cutting edge of using smart automation and advanced analytics to solve business problems. This year’s winners and finalists came from a range of industry sectors, including pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, oil & gas, computing technology, health care, and staffing solutions.

“Digital business solutions continue to evolve and mature at a rapid pace and are playing ever-greater roles in making companies leaner, more agile and more intelligent,” said Paul Morrison, Managing Director, The Hackett Group. “While cost reduction and transactional automation are still the primary focus for many organizations, more and more companies are using these rapidly implemented, cost-effective and disruptive tools to drive a broad array of powerful business benefits – including boosting customer satisfaction, shrinking the time it takes to respond to and solve issues, improving quality, reducing risk and identifying and avoiding problems entirely.”

“This year’s Digital Awards winners and finalists are real pioneers and have shown significant skill at identifying the best opportunities for digital transformation and then systematically going after the benefits using a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics and more,” said Mr. Morrison. “They’ve demonstrated real innovation and creativity in identifying and integrating a diverse array of tools and technologies to achieve their goals, and the results they’re already generating are truly impressive. These programs demonstrate how the benefits of digital transformation radiate outwards, impacting suppliers, employees, patients and customers for the better.”