Pigment Announces 2026 Annual Partner Awards

As businesses face increasing complexity and rapid change, partners have become instrumental in helping organizations use AI-first planning and performance management technology to drive better strategic decision making. With the ecosystem growing 24% year over year, partners are playing an even bigger role in bringing Pigment to customers and accelerating time to value. Involved in nearly all Pigment implementations, partners are integral to successful outcomes for businesses, demonstrating their deep experience in implementing modern planning solutions that deliver  valuable outcomes.

“Our partners are true extensions of Pigment, bringing local experience, industry insight, and implementation excellence that translates our AI-first capabilities into real business value. As our ecosystem continues to expand, we’re committed to building on the momentum we’ve seen, and investing in these partnerships for mutual, long-term growth.”

Katie Ecklund, Global Head of Partnerships, Pigment

The 2026 Pigment Partner Award Winners: 

Global Partner of the Year: Deloitte*

Pigment has named Deloitte its 2026 Global Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year, recognizing Deloitte's excellence in advising organizations as they modernize business planning.

Over the past year, Deloitte has invested further in its alliance with Pigment, expanding capabilities, enablement, and delivery across its network of member firms that includes the US, UK, France, and Germany, among others. By combining industry and functional experience with Pigment’s AI-powered planning platform, Deloitte continues to bring scalable delivery and execution to planning transformations. 

“We’re honored to be recognized as Pigment’s Global Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year. Together, Pigment and Deloitte collaborate on tailored approaches aligned to each organization’s unique requirements, combining Pigment’s AI-powered platform capabilities with Deloitte’s industry experience to advise on planning, analysis and decision-making activities at scale.”

Kashif Riaz, Audit & Assurance Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP.

"Two years in a row as Partner of the Year! We’re incredibly proud and it reinforces the momentum we’re building together. From the start, our focus has been to modernize performance management by making planning faster, more connected and easier to act on. By combining Pigment’s platform with Deloitte’s end-to-end delivery experience, we can empower organizations to move from insight to execution and deliver measurable results.

Harry Yochum, Partner, Deloitte France

Regional Partner of the Year (sourcing)

Awarded to the partner who drives the greatest impact on Pigment’s growth through new customer acquisition. 

• North America: Aegis Advise
• EMEA: Plan Assist

Aegis Advise and Plan Assist played a crucial role in driving new business for Pigment, sourcing and closing multiple high-impact deals. Key customers brought in by both partners include SOAS University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art (Plan Assist) and PCMI, Workleap, Nerdio, and aPriori Technologies (Aegis Advise). 

Impact Partner of the Year (co-selling)

Recognizing the partner who played a pivotal role in supporting the sales cycle, from demoing to providing industry expertise and guidance.

• North America: TwinSix
• EMEA: ReportWise

Both partners were integral to the sales cycle, guiding customers including NHood and Interflora France (ReportWise) and Lightspeed Commerce, Upside, and Elastic (TwinSix) through evaluations, leading demos, and providing the relevant, specialized industry expertise to ensure a seamless transition to Pigment.

Delivery Partner of the Year

Honoring the partner who delivered the most successful implementations with outstanding quality and customer satisfaction.

• North America: QueBIT
• EMEA: Viridian 

Both partners set a new standard for implementation excellence, leading numerous successful projects and ensuring seamless deployments for businesses including Ergomed and Byoma (Viridian).  

Rising Star of the Year

Highlighting a new partner in the Pigment ecosystem who, within their first year, has demonstrated exceptional dedication and impact.

• SBI Group

Over the past year, SBI has become a truly strategic partner, achieving an unprecedented progression from Registered status to a 3-Star Partner in record time: a testament to the strong trust built and the outstanding results delivered to our joint customers at Jacquet Brossard, Barkene, and Leader System.

About Pigment

Pigment is an AI business planning and performance management platform. Built for the complexity of modern enterprises, Pigment combines dynamic modeling with autonomous AI agents and an intuitive UX, to help teams make intelligent decisions with speed and clarity. Across finance, sales, supply chain, and other business functions, teams at companies like Unilever, Snowflake, Siemens, and Anthropic use Pigment every day to anticipate change, plan ahead, and act with confidence.

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