Accenture: Commited To Deliver

Founded in 1989, during the peak years of the computer revolution, Accenture has been a special organization from the outset. The company incepted as Andersen Consulting has gone on to carve a niche for itself and a legacy worthy of emulation. A global management consulting and professional services company, the firm reported a turnover of $34.9 billion in 2016 alone. It nests more than 3,94,000 employees worldwide serving clients in more than 200 cities in 120 countries. A regular feature in the Fortune Global 500 companies, Accenture serves 94 of the Fortune Global 100 companies and was named the world’s most admired Information Technology services company. These stats and awards don’t happen overnight and certainly don’t get to be called an IT behemoth without the final output or products to back it up. The firm for that matter provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations services. And Oracle occurs to be one of the plenty of platforms that Accenture excels in.

The times and the markets are such that even top vendors are not immune to losses if they don’t reinvent their business models and bringing cutting-edge tools and technologies is anything but regularity. The competition or the market rather, though continuously and constantly in the change cycle, is always ripe for transformation and bode to welcome superior value services and solutions in the business world. Accenture delivers what the market precisely needs through Oracle, the second-largest software maker and a global leader in software and application development, managed cloud services, converged infrastructure. Accenture was regarded as the leader of Oracle Application Management Services Provider worldwide in 2016. And also attained the Diamond status amongst Oracle’s few trusted partners. Why? Because, their relentless efforts in delivering IT solutions, applications, and management of the same.

Accenture delivers a comprehensive set of Oracle application management services across the Oracle product line. Alongside, it invests in industry-specific offerings, intellectual property (IP), tools, templates, and accelerators and also provides inputs across industries for Oracle application management service decisions. The firm executes its quality driven procedures and is efficacious in their processes, systems, and methods enabling them a performance to be competitive.

It is efficient and effective and leaves a positive impact on the revenue, retention, and reputation. Another important reason for Accenture being so successful is it doesn’t leave any stone unturned in its quest to capitalize on its vision. ‘The firm is able to convincingly articulate logical statements about current and future market direction, innovation, customer needs, and competitive forces.’ Long story short, Accenture has a clear understanding of how market forces react and are able to exploit and create opportunities for themselves and their clients.

Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives and has unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions. With other specialties like Management Consulting, Systems Integration and Technology, Business Process Outsourcing, and Application and Infrastructure Outsourcing. It works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. The solutions offered by Accenture cover a wide variety of areas, including End-User Monitoring, Service Level Management, Performance Diagnostics and Analysis, Change Management, Configuration/Compliance Management, Functional/Load testing, Data Masking/ Subsetting, and provisioning. These solutions have directly influenced the customers and reported a dramatic improvement in the productivity, as a high percentage of formerly manual tasks have been automated.

The Dublin-Headquartered firm’s deep industry experience and innovation with Oracle solutions give them a clear edge over their industry peers. Their well thought out vision has often helped the clients revamp their business structure and digital business, powered by an array of New IT solution. Some of them being – Accenture Foundation Platform for Oracle (AFPO), Engineered Systems Solutions, Application Services, Cloud Solutions, Private Cloud Solutions, Customer Solutions, Human Capital Management Solutions, Driving Analytics Return on Investment (ROI), and Foundation Platform for Oracle mobile. These solutions serve a variety of purposes.

If AFPO supports Oracle offerings like SOA Suite, Business Intelligence, Identity Management Suite, and Database. The Application services provide strategy, implementation, upgrade, and application outsourcing solutions across the complete Oracle suite, ensuring sustainability, affordability, and predictability while mitigating risks. On the other hand, the much heralded Cloud solutions offer modernized systems that help to cut down on costs and response time and aiding in tackling changing market conditions with swiftness and agility. Spanning strategy to managed services across public, private, and on-premise clouds, the firm’s range of Oracle technologies include – E-business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Fusion middleware.

While technology is a big part in businesses, offering tremendous support for growth, operating efficiency, and cost advantages, leading clear outcomes and measurable ROI. The human aspect plays an equally significant role if not more. Accenture caters to the customers with what they the ‘Non-stop Customer Model’. The model emphasizes on the customer-focused transformation that prioritizes superior experience and aligns internal organization, processes, and technology. Accenture believes the most valued and effective customer experiences are seamless, personalized, continuously optimized, and powered by analytics. The firm perpetrates their belief with élan with tailored offerings with solutions ranging from strategy to technical implementation, including customer relationship management, commerce, social media, mobility, data and analytics, and digital marketing.

The company nearing three decades in the IT industry puts enormous focus and resources on innovation. Though an industry veteran, they continually push to reinvent themselves with Accenture Innovation Architecture – A one-stop shop for research. Not only research, it also drives Ventures, Labs, Studios, Innovation centers, and Delivery centers. Pierre Nanterme, Chairman and CEO, Accenture adds, “We see excellent demand for our services especially in high growth areas such as digital, cloud, and security-related. We grew our revenue by 6 percent for the current quarter and we look ahead to the rest of the fiscal year.” Lead admirably by Nanterme, Accenture is an Oracle Certified Diamond Partner and Global Cloud Elite partner, and has won 125 Oracle awards since 2003. All in all, Accenture usage yields plenty of benefits like improved productivity, user experience, and IT Infrastructure management with reduced Compliance and Audit risks, an edge its peers would find hard to reciprocate.