Accenture Supports Canadian Charities with C$780,000 in Grants and Volunteering

Press release:

September 18, 2012

Accenture Supports Canadian Charities with C$780,000 in Grants and Volunteering

 

Grants reflect Accenture’s Skills to Succeed corporate citizenship initiative

 

TORONTO; September 18, 2012 – Accenture has awarded 12 grants totaling C$780,000 to help support Canadians who are seeking job skills to re-enter the workforce. In addition to the grants, Accenture employees are volunteering and donating pro bono consulting skills, reflecting the company’s Skills to Succeed initiative to equip 250,000 people around the world by 2015 with the skills to get a job or build a business.

 

“By working with these strong organizations and programs, Accenture hopes to help Canadians from coast to coast develop their skills and find new careers,” said Michael Denham, president and country managing director, Accenture.  “We share the commitment of these organizations to making a significant, lasting impact on the long-term economic vitality and resilience of individuals, families and communities around the world.”

 

The charities were selected following an official call for proposals to all Accenture employees in Canada.  A panel of Accenture’s corporate citizenship team in Canada then decided to fund programs that include:

 

• United Way (Ottawa) – assisting the Minwaashin Lodge’s Employment Readiness Program in efforts to help Aboriginal women find meaningful work and/or training to participate in the job market.
• The Salvation Army’s Harbour Light ministry (Vancouver) – training disadvantaged people in Vancouver’s downtown eastside community, using technology programs to start businesses or find jobs.
• Mixed Company (Toronto) – training at-risk young adults from diverse backgrounds and cultures in skills development, so they can gain employment and explore opportunities to develop their own creative ventures.
• Centre for Addiction & Mental Health Foundation (Toronto) – supporting Employment Works!, a program that helps people with a history of mental health issues and/or addiction to successfully return to the workforce.
• Hull Child and Family Services (Calgary) – partnering with organizations to assist young people, adults and families of people with significant developmental and behavioral challenges learn new skills to achieve success in their lives.
• Green Skills Network (Niagara) – mentoring and providing skills training to young adults, so they understand pathways to careers in the renewable energy field.
• Le Refuge des Jeunes de Montréal (Quebec) – developing a program to help disadvantaged young men in Quebec start a business or secure meaningful work.

 

Grants will also be given to Free The Children, The Canadian Centre for Diversity, Ability Online, ACCES Employment and Alberta Ecotrust.

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 249,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  Through its Skills to Succeed corporate citizenship focus, Accenture is committed to equipping 250,000 people around the world by 2015 with the skills to get a job or build a business. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.  Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

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Accenture to Help Oi Transform Business Operations and Support Strategic Growth Objectives

Press release:

September 13, 2012

 Accenture to Help Oi Transform Business Operations

and Support Strategic Growth Objectives

 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sept. 13, 2012 – Oi SA (NYSE: OIBR/C), one of Brazil’s leading providers of communications services, and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) have signed a seven-year agreement for Accenture to help Oi transform its business by having Accenture manage Oi’s billing and collections, finance and accounting, human resources, supply chain, and select back office functions.

 

Under the agreement, Accenture will provide Oi services through a flexible model designed for today’s business challenges, ultimately supporting Oi and its goal to improve efficiency, quality and cost-effectiveness. Through its deep communications industry knowledge, and supported by its management consulting, technology and business process outsourcing expertise, Accenture will focus on improvements designed to help transform Oi’s operations and support future growth.  

 

“We are committed to Oi’s success as they execute their strategic business plans and undergo this transformation,” said Robert Sell, group chief executive of Accenture’s Communications, Media & Technology operating group. “By leveraging Accenture’s industry and functional expertise combined with analytical tools and technologies, we’ve moved beyond operational cost reduction to drive more meaningful business outcomes for Oi. This agreement expands our longstanding relationship, and the work we perform will help make Oi an even stronger market competitor.”

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 249,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

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Accenture to Acquire NewsPage, a Leading Provider of Integrated Distributor Management and Mobility Software for the Consumer Goods Industry

Press release from Accenture:

August 30, 2012

Accenture to Acquire NewsPage, a Leading Provider of Integrated Distributor Management and Mobility Software for the Consumer Goods Industry

 

NEW YORK; Aug. 30, 2012 – Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has entered into an agreement to acquire Singapore-based NewsPage Pte Ltd (“NewsPage”), a leading provider of integrated distributor management and mobility software for the consumer goods industry in emerging markets.

 

NewsPage provides software products to some of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. Upon closing, the acquisition will complement the capabilities of the Accenture CAS software platform, a leading integrated software platform that supports the consumer goods industry sales processes, and help strengthen its capabilities in emerging markets. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

 

The Accenture CAS software platform helps consumer goods companies achieve greater trade efficiency and sales by enabling improved product availability on the shelf and increasing their ability to efficiently collaborate with retailers, while supporting the management of large, mobile sales and distribution forces.

 

Upon closing, the acquisition of NewsPage will add distributor management and mobility capabilities to the Accenture CAS software platform through a lean, user-friendly application. Also, NewsPage will bring a multi-platform mobility capability to the Accenture CAS solution, allowing it to run on Windows, Android and iOS devices. NewsPage’s products are delivered on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis or on-location.

 

The combination of the Accenture CAS software platform and NewsPage’s products will offer consumer goods companies the ability to manage all of their sales processes on a single global sales platform – from trade promotion management and optimization to retail execution, and from distributor management to direct store delivery, merchandising and customer service.

 

“This acquisition is important as it will enhance Accenture’s ability to help global consumer goods companies by supporting all route-to-market sales and delivery models across mature and emerging markets,” said Fabio Vacirca, senior managing director of Accenture’s Consumer Goods & Services practice. “NewsPage has a strong client base of global consumer goods brands that have benefited from its products. Its addition will strengthen Accenture’s software capabilities in emerging markets and reinforce Accenture’s position as a leading provider of integrated sales software for the consumer goods industry.”

 

Once the transaction has closed, approximately 128 NewsPage employees will join Accenture, and will continue to focus on product development, client sales and delivery. This team will be integrated into the Accenture Software organization.

 

“We are pleased that Accenture has recognized the strength of the NewsPage products, and the valuable work that we deliver for our clients,” said Tim Yoon, CEO of NewsPage. “We believe that the combination of our two organizations will create a compelling offer for consumer goods companies in emerging markets. Now we will be able to meet our client’s software implementation needs in countries outside of our traditional geographic area, benefiting from Accenture’s global reach and experience. This will be particularly useful where clients want business process changes before they implement the software platform.”

 

The acquisition is subject to closing requirements and is expected to close within 60 days.

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 249,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

Accenture Software combines deep technology acumen with industry knowledge to develop differentiated software products. It offers innovative software-based solutions to enable organizations to meet their business goals and achieve high performance. It's home page is:www.accenture.com/software. For more information on Accenture CAS, please visitwww.accenture.com/accenturecas.

 

About NewsPage
NewsPage, a market leader in mobility, has been in the business of developing and deploying industry-ready mobile applications since 1993. NewsPage Distributor Management is an end-to-end enterprise solution that caters for businesses that sell thru distributors. NewsPage has an extensive install base worldwide with more than 60 successful systems running in 20 countries across 7 different time zones in multiple languages. For more information, visitwww.newspage.com.sg.
 

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Microsoft Recognizes Accenture and Avanade with 2012 U.S. Regional Partner of the Year Awards

Press release from Accenture:

August 29, 2012

Microsoft Recognizes Accenture and Avanade with 2012 U.S. Regional

Partner of the Year Awards

 

Companies Honored as Eastern Region Cloud Partner of the Year, Central Region Enterprise Compete Partner of the Year and Northeast District Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year; Receive Individual Recognitions for Healthcare Industry Solutions and U.S. Federal Dynamics Partner of the Year

 

NEW YORK; Aug. 29, 2012 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN), a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, and Avanade, a business technology solutions and managed services provider, have been recognized with several regional U.S. Partner of the Year awards for 2012 by Microsoft.

 

The U.S. East region was honored as Cloud Partner of the Year and the U.S. Central region was awarded the Enterprise Compete Partner of the Year. This marks the second consecutive year that Accenture and Avanade have been honored with these two awards. The Cloud Partner of the Year Award honors the partner that sold and deployed innovative solutions and services for customers with hybrid on-premises, public cloud and private cloud needs across the U.S. East region.

 

Microsoft also recognized Accenture and Avanade with the Enterprise Compete Partner of the Year for its work on strategic accounts across the central United States. Additionally, Accenture and Avanade were honored as the Northeast District Dynamics Partner of the Year for CRM. This award recognizes a Microsoft partner who provides innovative solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM and fosters superior customer engagement in the Northeast District.

 

“Accenture and Avanade continually work with clients to achieve maximum performance from the Microsoft platform,” said Scott Harrison, global managing director of alliances channel management at Accenture. “As companies continue to look for ways to become more competitive, Accenture and Avanade are helping organizations achieve important business results through technology innovation in areas such as cloud computing and CRM, and in industries such as healthcare. We are pleased to be recognized by Microsoft for the results we have delivered to our clients.”

 

Aziz Virani, Avanade’s president of North America, said, “These awards reflect Accenture and Avanade’s commitment to enabling customers to harness the business benefits that can be achieved with the Microsoft platform. Together we are working with customers across all industries to help them drive down costs, strengthen customer relationships and improve performance."

 

Accenture and Avanade were also individually recognized for their work in the healthcare industry. Accenture was named the U.S. Health and Human Services Partner of the Year for 2012 for its Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) offerings. The Accenture Public Health Platform (APHP) is based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology and is designed to enhance administrative efficiency, improve flexibility in program management and speed deployment, thus reducing total cost of ownership. The platform enables states to better adapt to the continually evolving Medicaid landscape, budget pressures and initiatives surrounding health reform mandates.

 

Separately, Avanade was recognized as the U.S. Health and Life Sciences Dynamics Partner of the Year for its innovative work developing solutions that enable the healthcare industry to build stronger customer relationships. For example, Avanade is working with a leading cancer treatment organization in North America to create an automated patient relationship management system to ensure that patients and caregivers have the best experience possible throughout the entire relationship – not just during treatment. Built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the solution enables hospitals to track each patient throughout the care lifecycle, as well as ensure ongoing contact with primary caregivers and family members.

 

Finally, Accenture Federal Services was recognized as the U.S. Federal Dynamics Partner of the Year for its Task Management solution, TMT. TMT is the leading task management solution deployed in the U.S. Department of Defense and is used by over 70,000 users world-wide.

 

The companies were selected for these awards by Microsoft’s Field Partner Awards Program, which enables Microsoft to award regional partners on a global scale. The recipients of the 2012 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards were recognized at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, held July 8-12 in Toronto. More information can be found at: http://www.digitalwpc.com.  

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company with over 249,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology solutions and managed services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results. Our people have helped thousands of organizations in all industries improve business agility, employee productivity, and customer loyalty. Avanade combines the collective business, technical and industry expertise of its worldwide network of experts with the rigor of an industrialized delivery model to provide high quality solutions using proven and emerging technologies with flexible deployment models–on premises, cloud-based or outsourced. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation and has 16,000 professionals in more than 20 countries. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

 

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Avanade and Accenture Named to 2012 Inner Circle and President’s Club For Microsoft Dynamics

Press release from Accenture:

August 29, 2012

Avanade and Accenture Named to 2012 Inner Circle and President’s Club For

Microsoft Dynamics

 

NEW YORK; Aug. 29, 2012 – Avanade, a business technology solutions and managed services provider, and Accenture (NYSE: ACN), a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, have jointly been named to the 2012 Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle and 2012 Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club. The awards recognize Avanade and Accenture as high-performing Microsoft Dynamics partners with a commitment to customer satisfaction.

 

Mick Slattery, Avanade’s executive vice president of global service lines, said, “As a global leader in Microsoft Dynamics services, Avanade works closely with companies to help them build deeper customer relationships and profitable businesses. Our industry solutions coupled with our deep Microsoft expertise enable us to deliver the right solutions for our customers to meet changing consumer expectations and business demands. Recognition as a top Dynamics partner is a testament to the strong relationship we’ve fostered with Microsoft and business results we’re helping customers achieve.”

 

The Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club honors high-performing Microsoft Dynamics partners with a commitment to customers reflected in their business success and growth. This group represents the top five percent of Microsoft Dynamics partners worldwide. The Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle represents an elite group of the most strategic Microsoft Dynamics partners from around the globe, with sales achievements that rank them in the highest class of the Microsoft Dynamics global network of partners. These partners are recognized for their exceptional overall company performance in delivering valuable solutions to Microsoft Dynamics customers.

 

Scott Harrison, global managing director of alliances channel management at Accenture, said, “Consumers are more demanding than ever and are not afraid to look at alternatives when they receive poor service. For the last decade, we have helped organizations deliver exceptional customer experiences and improve loyalty with solutions built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Dynamics AX. We’re seeing high demand for Microsoft Dynamics products due to their ease of use, speed of deployment, low cost of ownership and flexible delivery options via cloud computing or on-premise. We look forward to an ongoing partnership with Microsoft to help companies achieve high performance.”

 

This marks the sixth year that Avanade and Accenture have been named to the Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle and the fourth consecutive year that the companies have been name to the President’s Club.

 

“Avanade and Accenture have developed a leading reputation by supporting organizations with highly adaptable and scalable solutions to improve their customers’ experience,” said Doug Kennedy, Microsoft. “This recognition is a direct reflection of their continued excellence and partnership with Microsoft Dynamics solutions and services.”

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company with over 249,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

About Avanade

Avanade provides business technology solutions and managed services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results. Our people have helped thousands of organizations in all industries improve business agility, employee productivity, and customer loyalty. Avanade combines the collective business, technical and industry expertise of its worldwide network of experts with the rigor of an industrialized delivery model to provide high quality solutions using proven and emerging technologies with flexible deployment models–on premises, cloud-based or outsourced. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation and has 16,000 professionals in more than 20 countries. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

 

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Accenture Qualifies for $750 Million IT Services IDIQ with U.S. Department of State

Press release from Accenture:

August 28, 2012

Accenture Qualifies for $750 Million IT Services IDIQ with U.S. Department of State

 

ARLINGTON, Va.; Aug. 28, 2012 – The U.S. Department of State has selectedAccenture Federal Services as one of nine prime contractors to provide technical supportand consulting services under a $750 million Development, Modernization, Enhancement (DME) contracting vehicle. The DME has a one-year base, with four, one-year options.

 

The State Department’s DME is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle that supports the Bureau of Consular Affairs’ modernization strategy to develop, enhance and maintain the technology tools for the bureau’s major business processes: issuing visas and passports and managing the Office of Overseas Citizens Services, which assists Americans with lost passports and provides other, similar services.

 

DME allows the Bureau of Consular Affairs to purchase software engineering development and modernization, technical and operations support services, and analytical and research support.

 

“The State Department is taking action to strengthen national security through modern technology, tools and systems. This program will improve delivery of services to American citizens living or traveling abroad and will support efficient and secure issuance of passports and visas,” said Amy Tener, who leads Accenture’s work with the U.S. Department of State.

 

Accenture recently was awarded contracts by the State Department to analyze the department’s supply chain and enhance the Integrated Logistics Management System (ILMS) that provides materials and services to its global workforce. The ILMS program recently was recognized as an industry best practice. The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) honored the State Department and ILMS earlier this year with two Excellence.gov awards, recognizing exceptional government programs and projects that use information technology in an innovative ways to improve services to citizens, enhance government operations and provide a more open and transparent government.

 

Accenture’s federal business serves every cabinet-level department and 20 of the largest federal organizations. The U.S. federal portfolio spans across clients in civilian, defense, intelligence and public safety agencies.

 

Learn more about Accenture’s global Public Safety practice,from Insights to Outcomes, itswork with federal agencies and delivering Public Service for the Future.

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 249,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US $25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31. 2011. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

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Accenture Named Leader In Business Technology Transformation

Press release:

August 27, 2012

Accenture Named Leader In Business Technology Transformation

 

NEW YORK; Aug. 27, 2012 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been named a Leader in Business Technology Transformation by Forrester Research, Inc.

                                                                                                                                       

Forrester®, an independent global research and advisory firm, evaluated 10 companies and included Accenture as a Leader in a July 2012 independent report titled, “The Forrester Wave^™: Business Technology Transformation, Q3 2012.”

 

“We believe Accenture’s Leader position in the Forrester Wave is a testament to our proven global capabilities and innovative approach to complex technology-enabled business transformations,” said Marty Cole, group chief executive, Technology at Accenture.  “Our passion is helping our clients transform their businesses by applying a unique blend of broad industry knowledge, superior technology proficiencies, and exceptional business process management capabilities.”

 

The 10 vendors were evaluated against 18 specific criteria, which were grouped into three high-level buckets:

 

• Current offering.Forrester evaluated the transformation capability of each vendor, including assessing their ability to deliver a balance of both technology consulting and business consulting services.
• Strategy.Forrester evaluated the ability of providers to align IT transformation strategy with key business objectives.
• Market presence.Forrester analyzed the number of consultants who could be considered dedicated to technology-enabled business transformation, as well as the number of purely technology-focused consultants who could be leveraged for technology-enabled business transformation.

 

According to the report, “Accenture’s breadth and depth of offerings and its technology and business process expertise placed it firmly in the Leader category. In addition, Accenture believes that business transformation is the goal of the entire organization, not just a discrete group within Accenture. Thus, its consultants are able to deal with both the technology and business stakeholders. Accenture has outstanding knowledge management capability, and Accenture consultants view the reusable methods and IP and processes as the critical success factor in their everyday activities. Its ability to leverage institutional assets and knowledge allows Accenture more time and flexibility to innovate on behalf of its clients.

 

“In our view Forrester’s assessment of Accenture reflects our ability to meet market demand for strategic transformations that deliver real business value and measurable outcomes,” said Sander van ’t Noordende, group chief executive, Management Consulting at Accenture. “Clients expect us to help them improve margins, enter new markets and improve their agility. Technology can only deliver those goals if it is closely integrated with company strategy, business processes, talent and skills.”

 

About Accenture Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 249,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.  Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

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BP Selects Accenture as its Global Outsourcing Provider of Finance and Accounting Services

Press release:

August 14, 2012

BP Selects Accenture as its Global Outsourcing Provider of Finance and Accounting Services

 

LONDON; August 14, 2012 – BP has selected Accenture (NYSE: ACN) as its global outsourcing provider of finance and accounting (F&A) services to complement its in-house captive business service centers. Terms of the multi-year agreement were not disclosed.

 

Under the agreement, Accenture will help BP consolidate its global F&A function through standardized reporting and metrics and by using advanced analytics to improve business controls and drive greater insights into the business. Specifically, Accenture will be responsible for providing record to report, order to cash, procure-to-pay and production revenue accounting services.

 

In addition, BP will be able to leverage Accenture’s industry processes, industry knowledge, and business process outsourcing (BPO) technologies across BP’s finance organization to drive end-to-end process standardization and controls.

 

“BP’s decision to select Accenture reflects our continued commitment over the past two decades to helping BP achieve its business objectives,” said Arthur Hanna, managing director of Accenture’s Energy industry group. “We will continue to draw on our industry knowledge, leverage our capabilities worldwide and bring innovation to support BP’s finance function.”

 

Accenture and BP have a long story of working together. The companies signed their first F&A agreement in 1991.

 

“BP sees this partnership with Accenture as an important milestone in driving standardization in our finance and accounting processes by consolidating our F&A service providers,” said Brian Puffer, Group Controller at BP. 

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 249,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.  Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

About BP

BP is one of the world's largest oil and gas companies, serving millions of customers every day in more than 90 countries, and employing 83,400 people. BP’s business segments are oil and gas exploration & production, and refining & marketing. In alternative energies, BP has low- and no-carbon wind and biofuels businesses, and a carbon capture technology team. Through these activities, BP provides fuel for transportation; energy for heat and light; services for motorists; and petrochemicals products for plastics, textiles and food packaging. It has strong positions in many of the world's hydrocarbons basins and strong market positions in key economies.

 

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Accenture Ranked as Top IT Services Vendor in Life Science Industry By Independent Research Firm

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Accenture Ranked as Top IT Services Vendor in Life Science Industry By Independent Research Firm; Second Year in a Row

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March 29, 2012

Accenture Ranked as Top IT Services Vendor in Life Science Industry

By Independent Research Firm; Second Year in a Row

NEW YORK; Mar. 29, 2012 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been ranked as the number one life science information technology (IT) services vendor in a survey conducted by IDC Health Insights. This is the second year in a row that Accenture has received this ranking.

The ranking was contained in a February 2012 report titled, “Perspective: IDC Health Insights' Top Preferred Life Science Technology Vendors for 2012” which documents results from IDC Health Insights’ Leading Indicators in Life Science IT Spending Survey.”¹ The IDC Health Insights survey indicates that respondents expect to contract Accenture during the next 12 months for IT services. Click here for a link to the report.

Anne O’Riordan, global managing director of Accenture’s Life Sciences practice, said, “For the second consecutive year, Accenture is honored to receive this recognition by IDC Health Insights. This designation further highlights Accenture’s ability to provide the life sciences industry with the best IT services solutions to gain better business insight, deliver better business outcomes and create greater value.”

The IDC Health Insights report is a biannual IT budget-tracking survey of several hundred life science companies. The survey, which polled 115 industry leaders on planned IT budgetary spend, technology priorities and vendor preference, asked participants to identify which vendors servicing the life science market they expect to spend money with on software, hardware, and IT services over the next 12 months.

[1] IDC Health Insights: “Perspective: IDC Health Insights' Top Preferred Life Science Technology Vendors for 2012,” Document # HI233255, February 2012, Eric Newmark.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 246,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.  Its home page is accenture.com.

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Wipro Launches Cloud Based NextGen Care Mgt. Solution for Healthcare

Wipro Launches Cloud Based NextGen Care Management Solution for US Healthcare Market

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT), announced the launch of its NextGen Care Management solution for the US healthcare market, specifically aimed at primary care physicians and healthcare providers. The objectives of the Wipro solution are aligned with the United States' Medical Home and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program to enable personalized, affordable and quality care. Wipro's NextGen Care Management solution enables physicians to drive patient participation in devising a personalized care plan with defined care goals, treatment plan and health improvement activities.

Wipro's application is built on Force.com, salesforce.com's social enterprise platform for employee facing social apps and, is uniquely positioned as a cloud based care management services and adopts the core principles of patient centricity, coordinated healthcare, interoperability, mobility, and outcome to better manage chronic, post-acute and elderly patient population.

General physicians and specialists can now experience continuity of information through a longitudinal view of patient's medical history, assessment and clinical reports. Primary care physicians and specialists can also form Medical Care panels, online, to be deeply engaged with the patients to maintain long term relationships and facilitate care across the continuum.

The built-in collaboration platform in the solution uses tools such as sms, chat, alerts, reminders, activity workflows and helps in reducing cost by avoiding treatment overlaps, multiple clinical tests or hospitalization. The solution's compatibility with devices such as Smartphones, Tablet PCs and integration with remote patient monitoring devices ensure access to patient medical records at the point of care, for proactive and preventive care delivery. Wipro's solution provides performance analytics to help in developing an outcome driven and quality focused healthcare culture.

With the Obama Care act expanding healthcare coverage to an additional 32 million Americans, healthcare payers (insurance companies) and providers have to manage a huge influx of new members - an 81% growth, into the system. As a result, the payers and providers will need to go through a major IT transformation, through annual IT investments worth USD 3-5 billion, to handle this massive change and in order to provide high quality, affordable healthcare.

According to Vikash Jain, Partner, Everest Group, an independent advisory and research firm on global services, "An integrated solution for care management addresses a key need of the players who are trying to proactively and aggressively address the ‘cost of care' issue. In addition the cloud based proposition is very compelling given the advantages of rapid and low cost deployment, pay as you go models. This solution combines a key business need of the Payers and with the emerging next generation models that clients are looking for and should create significant interest."

Mohd Haque, Vice President, Healthcare Vertical, Wipro Technologies said "The burgeoning concept of patient centric care management is encouraging healthcare organizations to adapt innovations in managing chronic diseases, treating remotely, helping people to live longer. Wipro's solution is capable of transforming the current reactive, episodic, fragmented care delivery system into a foundation of partnership between payer, provider and patient to co-manage, monitor and measure delivery of care. Wipro is heavily investing in patient centric solutions, remote healthcare and ACO (Accountable Care Organizations) platforms that provide technology solutions for creating next generation care management."

Wipro has a comprehensive presence in the Healthcare Industry across payers, providers, healthcare distribution, healthcare services, e-health and government-funded programs.

Outsourcing Extends to Creative Work

Excerpt from an article in The New York Times
Friday, February 17, 2012

Outsourcing Extends to Creative Work 

By BEN SISARIO

Drew Smith found himself in the same position as many independent musicians trying to make a living in the struggling music business. He had no record label to underwrite his career, no publicity machine to get his music into listeners’ hands and not nearly enough money to make a music video.

So he followed the route of big business and outsourced the video to India.

Last October, Mr. Smith contracted a dance school in Bangalore, India, to make a video for his song “Smoke and Mirrors” featuring original Bollywood-style choreography and Indian actors dressed as Hindu demigods and tossing colored festival powders.

The production values may be a little amateurish by MTV standards, but for $2,000 it cost a small fraction of the typical budget for a professional film. And Mr. Smith has attracted some of music’s most important currency: attention. Since being posted to YouTube on Feb. 2 “Smoke and Mirrors” has been watched more than 179,000 times, and a recent post about it by Mr. Smith’s brother became one of the top articles on Reddit, the social link aggregator.

The video is one example of the breadth of outsourcing, which has come to include the kind of highly specialized skills — like microchip design, which I.B.M. contracted to an Indian company in 2005 — that were once considered unexportable. Companies in the West often claim that while they outsource factory jobs, the creative and innovative work is still done at home.

“You hear so much about big corporations outsourcing,” Mr. Smith said by phone on a break from his day job teaching English to immigrants in Hamilton, Ontario. “I was just trying to think of a unique way to release the album and promote it.”

While outsourcing was once viewed strictly as a cost-cutting privilege of giant corporations, it is increasingly available to smaller companies and even individuals.