Accenture
- 1. Industry Visit and its Report (CT2310) Presentation on “Name of Industry” Presented By Aman C. Kapse 84, Section-A, Semester-V Industry Mentor (Vaishnavi Kapse, Accenture, Associate Software Engineer) Month, 2021-22 Department of Computer Technology Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur 1
- 2. Company History: • Accenture began as the business and technology consulting division of accounting firm Arthur Andersen in the early 1950s. • In 1989, Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting became separate units of Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative (AWSC). • Throughout the 1990s, there was increasing tension between Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen. • In August 2000, as a result of the conclusion of arbitration with the International Chamber of Commerce, Andersen Consulting broke all contractual ties with AWSC and Arthur Andersen. As part of the arbitration settlement, Andersen Consulting paid the sum held in escrow (then $1.2 billion) to Arthur Andersen, and was required to change its name, resulting in the entity being renamed Accenture.
- 3. • On 1 January 2001, Andersen Consulting adopted its current name, "Accenture". The word "Accenture" is derived from "Accent on the future". • In October 2002, the Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) identified Accenture as one of four publicly traded federal contractors that were incorporated in a tax haven Accenture's banner hanging on the New York Stock Exchange Building for its initial public offering on 19 July 2001.
- 4. • On 7 January 2020, news sources reported that Accenture had agreed to acquire Symantec's 300-person cybersecurity services division from Broadcom. • In February 2020, Accenture announced that it plans to shut down its media auditing by the end of August. • In May 2020, Accenture announced that it had acquired Calisto Integration, a Canada- based provider of consulting and technology services and Byte Prophecy, an Ahmedabad-based data analytics company. • In September 2020, Accenture committed $3 billion and created a division called Accenture Cloud First.
- 5. • On 1 February 2021, Accenture acquired Imaginea Technologies, a cloud-native and agile development company. • On 16 February 2021, Accenture acquired Infinity Works. This acquisition also bolsters the Accenture Cloud First division. • On 22 April 2021, Accenture acquired Cygni, a cloud-native, full-stack development company. • On 22 August 2021, Accenture acquired Trivadis AG, an IT services provider specializing in platforms and solutions that enable highly automated provisioning and innovative use of data. Accenture office at Tech Square in Atlanta
- 6. Introduction: • There purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. They embrace the power of change to create long-lasting value in every direction for our clients, people and communities. • Ethics, human rights and strong corporate governance are key drivers of there business strategy. People live there core values, using there governance structure and Code of Business Ethics to guide them. • By scaling AI, analytics and automation, they can empower people and processes responsibly. And they continually consider and monitor the unintended consequences of AI and related technologies—it’s one of there highest Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) priorities.
- 7. Domain of the Industry: Accenture Strategy provides business strategy, technology strategy and operations strategy services.
- 8. • Accenture Consulting provides technology, business and management consulting.
- 9. • Accenture Interactive (formerly Digital) provides digital marketing, analytics and mobility services.
- 10. • Accenture Technology focuses on technology software, implementation, delivery, and research & development, including its Technology Labs for emerging technologies.
- 11. • Accenture Operations focuses on an "as-a-service" model of service delivery. This includes business process outsourcing, IT services, cloud services, managed operations and security.
- 12. Products and Platforms: • Accenture's Product and Platform Engineering Services team helps clients navigate through the new wave of platforms. • With more than three decades of experience, there deep engineering-skilled workforce of over 8,000 professionals has grown out of the development of our own commercially-available software and platforms. • They have expertise across more than 40 industries and all business functions, delivering transformational outcomes for a demanding, new digital world, and continuing to keep pace with ever-evolving customer needs. • Traditionally, the technology infrastructure used by a company for building a series of products for its users was called a platform. The beneficiaries were often restricted within the product or service to fulfill a task. • However, the evolution of technology has led to a proliferation of innovative business models and cross-industry vertical partnerships, which has brought about a complete evolution in platform thinking.
- 13. Services: • Core platform engineering Shift from a product to a platform mentality by architecting and developing an API and ecosystem strategy for a scalable and future-ready platform. • Software product engineering Architect and manage the development lifecycle for the base product—from roadmap development, to build, test, deploy, sustain and support—at pace. • Platform enablement Promote partner ecosystems to maximize platform adoption and achieve the revenue uplift from platform use. • Device engineering Design and develop software that runs the device, including silicon, appliance and embedded devices to maximize performance.
- 14. Engineering compute optimization A unique solution to increase utilization by real time scoring of jobs, using AI/ML through planning and intelligent dashboards. Quality engineering as a platform A unified software infrastructure to support seamless multiple hardware/software platform development and testing in a CI/CD framework. Product sustenance and innovation End-of-the-life products engineering and sustenance can help clients to drive innovation, efficiency and cost savings. Platform-in-a-box A preconfigured solution for deploying a platform for clients quickly (ready for use in minutes).