Huron Consulting Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of
business consulting services, today announced that the Company completed
its acquisition of Blue Stone International, LLC. The acquisition closed
on October 1, 2013.
Blue Stone is a provider of Oracle professional services supporting
enterprise performance management, information management and business
intelligence solutions. At Huron, Blue Stone will continue providing
business intelligence capabilities, advisory services and analytic
solutions to the C-Suite. The business offering will strengthen Huron’s
existing work in this same space within higher education and healthcare,
and also serve as a platform for growth in other industries such as
banking, hospitality, insurance, oil and gas, real estate, retail, and
utilities. Blue Stone is now part of the Huron Education and Life
Sciences segment, which includes the Company’s Oracle ERP services
practice.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve
performance, reduce costs, leverage technology, process and review large
amounts of complex data, address regulatory changes, recover from
distress and stimulate growth. Our professionals employ their expertise
in administration, management, finance, operations, strategy, business
intelligence and technology to provide our clients with specialized
analyses and customized advice and solutions that are tailored to
address each client's particular challenges and opportunities to deliver
sustainable and measurable results. The Company provides consulting
services to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed
organizations, including healthcare organizations, leading academic
institutions, Fortune 500 companies, governmental entities and law
firms. Huron has worked with more than 95 of the top 100 research
universities, more than 400 corporate general counsel, and more than 385
hospitals and academic medical centers. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
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successfully integrate the businesses we acquire; and that existing
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