Accenture and Sun aim to widen security scope
News Accenture and Sun are working together to tackle what they say is the growing security threat posed by computer fraud and terrorism, and are launching the Accenture Smart Identity Solution for identity management of individuals.
[April 2, 2008, 16:39]
Accenture buys Symbian services unit
News The consulting firm Accenture is to buy the professional services wing of Symbian, the Nokia-owned mobile operating system company. The sale of Professional Services to Accenture means handset makers such as Sony Ericsson, which are Symbian...
[July 20, 2009, 15:27]
Accenture Report: mySAP Utilities on NetApp Filers
White Papers As a founding member of the mySAP.com Partner Network, Accenture has worked directly with SAP to develop and enhance mySAP.com solutions. Accenture has received the SAP Award of Excellence on numerous occasions and has helped implement more than 1...
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
Accenture and SAP alliance targets banking
News Technology-outsourcing company Accenture and business software maker SAP will jointly develop and market IT products for the banking and insurance sectors worldwide, the companies said on Thursday. Under the agreement, Accenture and SAP will set up...
[September 26, 2003, 9:35]
Accenture pulls out of core NHS IT services
News Consulting firm Accenture has completed its withdrawal from delivering core IT services to the National Health Service. It is thought that the exit was prompted by the delayed delivery of key software by UK firm iSoft, which was subcontracted by...
[January 11, 2007, 10:12]
Accenture and Loudcloud aligning on Net
News Management and technology consulting firm Accenture on Tuesday said it is teaming with software services provider Loudcloud to market and deliver Web-focused services. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will collaborate to deliver...
[April 11, 2001, 6:19]
Accenture UK job cuts to hit IT workers
News Accenture UK has confirmed it is to cut 300 to 400 jobs in the wake of the downturn in the financial-services sector. In the email, Accenture blamed the cuts on "softness in the [UK] marketplace [which] in part reflects the global economic...
[October 6, 2008, 16:47]
Accenture to launch 'Green Data Centre Calculator'
News Data centres are computational workhorses which can greedily gobble up to 100 times more power per square foot than your average office, according to Accenture. On Friday, Accenture will launch the beta of its Green Data Centre Calculator, aimed at...
[January 31, 2008, 7:29]
Accenture and Microsoft drive forward on auto gadgets
News Microsoft and consulting group Accenture have teamed up to bring computer technology to automobiles and push along development of "telematic" services. Accenture has set a new division, the Services Bureau for Automotive Telematics, which will work...
[January 10, 2002, 15:54]
Accenture Case Study: London Stock Exchange-Data Warehouse
White Papers The Exchange and Accenture teamed to create a corporate data warehouse on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, enabling the Exchange to broaden the range of the information it provides and offer the market much richer real-time data sets.
[September 10, 2007, 2:19]
Accenture: eLearning
White Papers As part of its growth strategy, Accenture is redefining the marketplace by building a network of businesses - consulting, technology, outsourcing, alliances and venture capital - to meet any organization's needs.
[May 31, 2005, 0:00]
Accenture Case Study: Australian Tax Office
White Papers The Australian Taxation Office and Accenture teamed to create a Web-based Business Register making it faster and easier for companies to deal with government agencies. Today, the Australian Taxation Office is more customer-focused than ever...
[September 25, 2009, 2:35]
Accenture 'pulling out of NHS IT project'
News NHS Connecting for Health has refused to confirm press reports on Thursday morning which have suggested that Accenture — the largest contractor in the massive NHS IT overhaul — is pulling out of the project.
[September 28, 2006, 10:15]
Accenture rides offshoring wave
News Accenture, the outsourcing and consulting company, is planning to hire up to 30,000 workers across China, India and the Philippines. Accenture currently employs 19,000 people in the three countries. We have recently made an important decision in...
[July 13, 2005, 9:55]
Oracle, Accenture team up on UK SOA project
News Oracle and Accenture have teamed up to open an innovation centre in the UK for the development of service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology. Prospective customers will be able to visit the centre to see the technology in action before making...
[January 15, 2008, 8:41]
Accenture's king of blue-sky thinking
News While Accenture is best known for its IT consultancy work, the firm also invests in research and development. Martin Illsley, director of research at Accenture Technology Labs, based in Sophia Antipolis, France, spoke to ZDNet.co.uk about...
[October 30, 2007, 10:55]
Accenture launches mobile-service framework
News The consultancy, services and outsourcing company Accenture announced on Tuesday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it is establishing a business to help companies and mobile operators develop and deploy their own mobile applications.
[February 18, 2009, 14:42]
Accenture demos the 'Pocket Supercomputer'
News Accenture's "Pocket Supercomputer" is in fact a phone behaving like a thin client. For the demonstration in Accenture's labs in Nice on Tuesday, Linaker used a laptop running Windows XP. Businesses can use the application for inventory purposes, or...
[January 30, 2008, 16:22]
Accenture: Embrace Web 2.0 cautiously
News IT consultancy Accenture has advised businesses to accept Web 2.0 working practices but to beware of possible impacts on the IT department. Accenture's head of research and development, Martin Illsley, on Monday advised businesses that mashups, web...
[January 29, 2008, 10:34]
UK turns to Accenture for head of e-government
Talkback My experience with Accenture as consultinig partner globally has been horrendous. This is the scariest thing I have ever heard. Did anyone check out their US government experiences?
[June 2, 2004, 15:53]



