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Study: Economic Conditions Leading Large Firms to Adopt Cloud Computing
During the financial crisis in 2008, small and medium-sized business shifted to cloud computing to reduce costs. Due to the recession, large firms will quickly follow suit this year and next year, according to an article on ZDNet.
Software as a service also means shifting away from capital spending, where firms build their own…
SAPPHIRE NOW Recap: Cloud, Solutions, Partnerships and Lots of SAP
No doubt, this week is turning out to be a week of cloud.
SAPPHIRE NOW, a SAP sponsored conference taking place this week in Madrid, has housed multiple announcements, mostly about SAP and its multiplicity of partners and solutions.
Among the announcements was that of SAP and its company Sybase, Inc. bringing out their next wave of mobile…
Accenture Develops Private Cloud Solution
Accenture today announced that it has developed a private cloud solution in support of SAP applications that allows businesses and organizations to easily migrate to a lower cost, private cloud infrastructure. The firm’s solution is designed to enhance the performance of systems running SAP solutions, improve flexibility, lower costs and…
Accenture Presents its New Integrated Property and Casualty Software Suite
Published on 3 Nov, 2011 at 12:59 in Industry News | Viewed 13 times | No Comments
Accenture has introduced its integrated Property and Casualty software suite, which brings together Accenture Claim Components and Accenture Duck Creek’s policy software. The release gives software insurers the benefits of a flexible suite of P&C interoperable software modules to configure products, transact lines of business and process claims.
The software is based on a Microsoft .NET platform and reduces implementation…
Accenture, Google Execs Show Conference the ‘How-To” in Cloud, Mobility
The Software & Information Industry Association will be holding its second annual All About Mobile conference on Nov. 15 in San Francisco.
The conference is designed to help business-to-business companies take advantage of new opportunities to deliver a new generation of business cloud services and mobile applications.
The conference will explore the evolution of…
Accenture and Avanade Named to 2011 President’s Club for Microsoft Dymanics CRM
Published on 20 Oct, 2011 at 11:51 in Industry News | Viewed 36 times | No Comments
Accenture and Avanade have been named to the 2011’s President’s Club for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The companies were jointly recognized as being in the top five percent of partners worldwide. The pair received the honor for its performance as a Microsoft Dynamics CRM partner and its commitment to customers.
The CRM market is quickly accelerating due…
Accenture Recognized as 2011 HP AllianceONE Partner of the Year
Published on 18 Oct, 2011 at 14:13 in Industry News | Viewed 16 times | No Comments
Accenture has today been recognized with a 2011 HP AllianceONE Partner of the Year Award in the category of Global Alliances-Systems Integrator. The award honors HP alliance members and their outstanding accomplishments in the development and the delivery of innovative solutions that achieve standard-setting levels for business excellence and client satisfaction.
“The award validates our joint activities,…
Accenture CAS Speeds Customer Management and Mobility
Accenture has launched a new version of its software suite for the consumer goods industry, Accenture CAS release 9. The platform will assist companies as they improve operational efficiencies across marketing, sales and field service functions while reducing software ownership cost and accelerating software implementation.
Accenture CAS will continue to be licensed in both cloud and on-premise models….
Accenture Unveils Version Three of Foundation Platform For Oracle
Published on 4 Oct, 2011 at 13:32 in Industry News | Viewed 11 times | No Comments
Accenture unveiled version three of its Accenture Foundation Platform for Oracle at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, giving clients the capability to access Oracle Applications on mobile devices.
AFPO includes repeatable designs and secure access, and uses HTML5 technology used by mobile platforms such as Apple iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Android.
Version three also includes the integration of Oracle enterprise grid management and Oracle web services manager.
AFPO, a suite…
Accenture Finds Shared Services Executives Accelerate C-Suite Visibility
Published on 26 Sep, 2011 at 15:18 in Industry News | Viewed 14 times | No Comments
According to a study by Accenture, executives who lead shares services organizations are increasingly accountable to the corporate C-suite and are seeing an emergence of integrated business services leveraging the company’s global corporate resources.
59 percent of shared services executives polled report to C-suite level officers. A report on the study’s findings, “Trends in Shared Services: Unlocking the Full Potential,” said as…
