The 2022 Fastest Growing Firms: Plative, Inc

Number of Billable Consultants: 125

Client Industries Served: Financial Services, Nonprofit, Wholesale & Distribution, Manufacturing and Machinery, Technology

Consulting Service Lines: Salesforce and NetSuite

Website URL: www.plative.com

Plative helps the world's most disruptive companies bring the future-state of their business to life by developing customized solutions across Salesforce and Oracle NetSuite platforms. Starting with an industry-specific perspective, and with a focus on designing cross-platform solutions, we inspire our customers to transform their systems and processes to enable ongoing innovation. Plative is proudly a Salesforce.com Summit Partner, Salesforce.org Premium Partner, and Top-10 Oracle NetSuite Alliance Partner in North America.

Consulting: What were the main factors that contributed to your firm's exceptional growth?

Kaiser: Our unique go-to-market position of bringing enterprise grade services to the middle and growth markets across ERP and CRM. Strategic and strong partnerships with Oracle NetSuite, Salesforce and other cloud platforms.

Global-mindset enabling us to break down geographical barriers when hiring talent so we can hire simply for the greatest functional and technical consultants regardless of their location.

Meteoric rise of ongoing innovation services that renew on an annual and multiyear basis providing long term cross-cloud technology roadmaps for our clients and acting as a strategic extension of their team to execute on these initiatives.

Consulting: How would you say you've managed to maintain growth during the unprecedented past three years?

Kaiser: By being singularly focused on our employees, our clients and our processes.

Consulting: How is this year shaping up for your firm?

Kaiser: Our current forecast is 50% year-over-year growth

Consulting: How would you describe your firm's outlook for 2023? Where do you see the most opportunities?

Kaiser: Very optimistic for 2023. We will continue to double down on our ongoing innovation-as-a-service offering to the marketplace and we expect to see a much more extensive pool of middle market customers that are left behind due to the consolidation of our competition being pulled into the enterprise services sector due to acquisitions by global professional services firms.

Consulting: What would you say are your firm's biggest challenges in 2023?

Kaiser: Increasing cost of labor from highly skilled Salesforce and Oracle NetSuite consultants in a competitive marketplace, developing talent internally from entry level college grads to fully functional consultants, and cross-training our team between Oracle NetSuite and Salesforce

Consulting: What does being named one of Consulting's Fastest Growing Firms mean to your firm, your employees and your clients?

Kaiser: Additional validation for the 150+ professionals at Plative globally who provide amazing value to our clients every day, as well as to the marketplace solidifying Plative as a key consulting partner for ERP and CRM transformation.