Deloitte has recently announced updates to its agentic AI-infused delivery platform, Ascend. The platform upgrades should enhance how Deloitte executes and orchestrates work and supports its software, solutions and products for clients, with a common engineering foundation. With Deloitte’s investment of more than $1 billion across agentic and Generative AI capabilities, these capabilities will allow a single-entry point for Deloitte professionals to access this delivery method for serving clients.
These enhancements should make it easier for professionals to access Deloitte’s collective intelligence to tailor solutions and drive better client outcomes.
Deloitte’s history of delivering solutions is the foundation of the Ascend platform. Ascend turns “complexity into clarity” by equipping teams with the right tools, agents and technologies when needed for impact, “enhanced outcomes and minimal friction.” Benefits include:
- Flexibility across the delivery lifecycle: Ascend codifies the “Deloitte Way” of successful client delivery in a single platform to drive improved project outcomes that apply Deloitte tools, solutions, or approaches for clearly defined project workflows.
- Use case development: Ascend works with clients’ existing infrastructure and Deloitte’s vast network of alliance relationships to fit the specific needs of each enterprise. For example, in the platform’s GenAI Lab, professionals can experiment and prototype with the latest GenAI tools.
- Built-in security: Ascend was built with Deloitte’s Trustworthy AI Framework to help organizations mitigate risks such as bias and improper training to assist clients in scaling their AI deployments with confidence.
- Client portal and access: Ascend enables ease of access for clients to the delivery of work through a digital channel and engagement features.
Deloitte clients are experiencing the benefits of Ascend as a engineering and project delivery platform as Deloitte teams use this platform to create consistent outcomes.
For example, Deloitte and UiPath, a global enabler of agentic automation, collaborated to enhance Ascend by developing “a testing management capability, which accelerates activities in the testing lifecycle for enterprise modernization programs.” It combines Deloitte’s “knowledge base with GenAI and agentic automation.”
Deloitte has been at the center of AI advancements, expanding its offerings via its Generative AI practice, including Converge by Deloitte, a suite of AI-driven solutions and Zora AI by Deloitte, an agentic product platform offering a suite of digital workers.
With its Deloitte Ascend delivery platform, Deloitte technologists, developers and engineers build AI solutions, agents and tools for its clients.
Deloitte aims to modernize its services and offerings – based on its industry knowledge and experience across domains. Deloitte integrates AI following its Trustworthy AI framework to manage risks. Additionally, Deloitte enhances AI fluency, investing in “global learning and trainings through the Deloitte AI Academy.”