Deloitte Consulting LLP (Deloitte Consulting) is highly supportive of our Alliances program, recognizing the value that effective alliances can bring to our clients and to our organization. In the current market, our clients are looking for ways to save money while realizing even better value from their transformation programs, and many of our alliances provide us with resources and technologies that we do not maintain in-house.

Our alliance relationships can produce new market offerings that provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace. And some of our alliance members represent key components of our Integrated Market Offerings (“IMOs”). IMOs are services which bring together different capabilities from Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Tax LLP, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, and Deloitte Consulting (the “Deloitte U.S. Entities”) — for instance, Tax-Advantaged ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) implementation services.

While we recognize the benefits that our alliances bring to us, we also understand that an alliance must be mutually beneficial to develop, grow and produce the results we both want.