The Hackett Group Joins ServiceNow Partner Program
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
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The Hackett Group (HCKT) has joined the ServiceNow (NOW) Partner Program as a Consulting and Implementation partner to help organizations identify high-value AI opportunities and accelerate workflow transformation with Hackett AI XPLR and the ServiceNow AI Platform. Together, the partnership enables enterprises to move beyond AI experimentation by pinpointing the highest impact AI initiatives and driving execution at scale.
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Analyst Views on HCKT
Wall Street analysts forecast HCKT stock price to rise
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3 Buy
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Strong Buy
Current: 10.590
Low
27.00
Averages
27.50
High
28.00
Current: 10.590
Low
27.00
Averages
27.50
High
28.00
About HCKT
The Hackett Group, Inc. is an IP and platform-based, Gen artificial intelligence (A.I.) strategic consulting and executive advisory company. The Company’s segments include Global Strategy & Business Transformation (Global S&BT), Oracle Solutions, and SAP Solutions. The Global S&BT segment includes the Company’s Gen A.I. and strategic business consulting practices. The Oracle Solutions Segment includes the Company’s Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)/ Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Digital Application Maintenance and Support (AMS) practices. SAP Solutions segment includes the Company’s SAP applications and related SAP service offerings. Its software platform includes AI XPLR and ZBrain.ai. Its AI assessment platform allows measuring and assessing the impact of Gen A.I. technologies. It provides expertise in Gen A.I. strategy, operations, finance, strategic sourcing, and information technology, including its Oracle, SAP, OneStream, and Coupa implementation offerings.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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- AI Opportunity Assessment: With Hackett AI XPLR™, organizations can evaluate the potential business value of AI investments by considering existing processes and data readiness, prioritizing initiatives with the greatest impact to ensure effective resource allocation.
- Execution Acceleration: This collaboration enables enterprises to swiftly transition from opportunity assessment to execution, optimizing employee experiences, customer service workflows, reducing operational costs, and increasing productivity, thereby achieving higher returns on investment.
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- Execution Acceleration: This collaboration enables enterprises to swiftly transition from opportunity assessment to execution, optimizing employee experiences, customer service workflows, reducing operational costs, and increasing productivity, thereby achieving higher returns on investment.
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- Partnership Legacy: As a long-standing SAP partner since its founding in 1997, Answerthink® has consistently focused on driving digital transformation, enabling clients to adopt innovations rapidly and enhance operational efficiency, thereby maintaining a competitive edge in a challenging market.
- Technological Investment: Answerthink® has made significant investments in the SAP Business Data Cloud platform, aiming to provide clients with a unified, intelligent data foundation that maximizes the potential of SAP solutions, resulting in enhanced insights and business performance.
- Industry Impact: This award not only highlights Answerthink®'s strong influence in the North American market but also underscores its ongoing commitment to innovation and application of SAP solutions, further solidifying its core position within the SAP ecosystem.
See More
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- Enhanced Planning Capabilities: 74% of enterprises have implemented AI in sales and operations planning (S&OP) or integrated business planning (IBP), and 72% in advanced planning and scheduling, resulting in significantly shorter data analysis cycles and improved efficiency in service cost trade-off decision-making.
- Shifting Priorities: Cost efficiency remains the top priority for supply chain leaders for the third consecutive year, while digital transformation has surged to the second priority from fifth place, reflecting a growing recognition of the importance of modernizing platforms and data for future competitive advantage.
- Challenges and Opportunities: Despite rapid AI adoption, data quality (50%) and data integration (47%) remain significant challenges, with 45% of leaders citing a lack of AI talent as a major constraint, highlighting the need for targeted investments in talent and data readiness.
See More
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- Strategic Investment Guidance: The new benchmarks provide a framework for organizations to assess specific workflows, helping prioritize high-value opportunities, reduce execution risks, and accelerate ROI, ensuring companies do not fall behind in a rapidly changing environment.
- Precise Performance Measurement: AI World Class benchmarks quantify the impact across 16 critical end-to-end processes, including cost, full-time equivalent requirements, cycle times, and error rates, enabling organizations to build more actionable business cases and optimize investment decisions.
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- AI Platform Transition: CEO Ted Fernandez emphasized that Hackett Group is aggressively migrating to an AI platform-enabled sales and delivery model, which, while significant, is currently pressured by macroeconomic uncertainty and elongated client decision cycles affecting near-term performance.
- Declining Financial Performance: For Q1 2026, total revenues were reported at $67.8 million, an 11% decrease year-over-year, with adjusted net income at $8.7 million and diluted EPS at $0.34, reflecting challenges faced during the transition and weak market demand.
- Cautious Future Outlook: CFO Robert Ramirez guided Q2 revenues to be between $68.5 million and $70 million, with expectations for sequential growth in Global S&BT and Oracle Solutions segments, yet still down from the previous year, indicating a complex market environment.
- AI Transition Costs: The company anticipates incurring approximately $500,000 in AI transition charges in Q2, which may continue throughout 2026, highlighting the need for careful cost and resource management during the transition to ensure long-term profitability and market competitiveness.
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