Deloitte announced the acquisition of the SFL Scientific Company, a prominent, award-winning artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and data science consulting organization. This acquisition demonstrates Deloitte’s commitment to investing in the capabilities required by public and private sector clients to transform their organizations for long-term success. The combination of SFL Scientific’s extensive expertise in science and analytics with Deloitte’s breadth of AI capabilities, industry depth, and experience strengthens Deloitte’s position as an AI leader, improves its capacity to carry out AI-driven transformations for clients, and hastens the rise of its AI market share.
Dan Helfrich, chairman, and CEO, of Deloitte Consulting LLP, said, “As our clients advance their enterprise AI journeys, they require the comprehensive and sophisticated experience that SFL Scientific delivers. The acquisition builds on an already strong relationship between our two organizations serving both commercial and public sector clients. Additionally, it will help us advise clients with the best approach to how AI can help transform their business, implement scalable capabilities to drive that transformation, and provide ongoing support to continually improve investments with AI-infused tech.”
SFL Scientific has a track record of serving large, market-leading organizations in the public and private sectors, providing quality, novel, and complex projects, as well as offering deep domain and scientific capabilities. The team at SFL Scientific, which consists of seasoned AI strategists, data scientists, and engineers, advises CEOs in a trusted manner, assisting them in understanding and evaluating new and crucial areas for AI investment as well as in identifying special chances to transform their companies.
Nitin Mittal, AI co-leader, and principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, said, “Combining SFL Scientific’s specialized AI strategy knowledge with Deloitte’s breadth of AI technological capabilities and industry depth will advance our AI leadership, accelerate our AI market share, and position Deloitte as a trusted advisor helping our enterprise clients transform their businesses through the power of AI.”
Michael Segala, Ph.D., CEO, SFL Scientific, said, “Acquiring SFL Scientific’s business reinforces Deloitte as the destination for a rich career in AI, and fortifies our commitment to fostering an environment to advance technical excellence and technology development and growing leading teams of data scientists, strategists, and technologists, all in support of delivering AI-fueled transformations for clients. “We are excited to join forces with Deloitte. Combining our high caliber AI talent with Deloitte’s broad domain knowledge and implementation capabilities is the catalyst to accelerate solving scientific and operational challenges with AI.”