CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 2014-- Huron Consulting Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business consulting services, today announced that the Company completed its acquisition of Threshold Consulting, Inc.

Threshold provides cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) solutions, as well as customer relationship management (CRM) consulting capabilities. Threshold’s business complements Huron’s existing enterprise performance management (EPM), BI and analytics offerings to the office of the CFO and adds deeper CIO-centric solutions including data warehousing, data modeling and information governance capabilities, while also providing an entry into Salesforce.com CRM implementation services.

Threshold is a Salesforce.com registered Silver Cloud Alliance Partner and Huron is a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

For reporting purposes, Threshold will be included in the Company’s Huron Business Advisory segment. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. For more information, please read the press release announcing the acquisition here.

About Huron Consulting Group

Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve performance, transform the enterprise, 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 finance, operations, strategy 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 425 health systems, hospitals, and academic medical centers; more than 400 corporate general counsel; and more than 350 universities and research institutions. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.

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Source: Huron Consulting Group Inc.

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