It is at the forefront of innovation, exploring new ideas and achieving tangible results for its customers
Accenture is one of the world’s leading professional services companies with approximately 492,000 people serving clients in a broad range of industries and in three geographic regions: North America, Europe and Growth Markets (Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East).
Our five operating groups, organized by industry, bring together expertise from across the organization in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations to deliver end-to-end services and solutions to clients. For fiscal 2019, our revenues were $43.2 billion, with the majority in digital-, cloud- and security-related services.
We operate globally with one common brand and business model, providing clients around the world with the same high level of service. Drawing on a combination of industry and functional expertise, technology and innovation capabilities, alliance relationships, and our global delivery resources, we seek to provide differentiated, innovative services that help our clients measurably improve their business performance and create sustainable value for their customers and stakeholders. Our global delivery capability enables us to assemble integrated teams to provide highquality, cost-effective solutions to our clients.
In fiscal 2019, we continued to execute a strategy focused on industry and technology differentiation, increasingly taking an innovation-led approach to drive value for clients. We serve clients in locally relevant ways, leveraging our global organization as appropriate. As part of our growth strategy in fiscal 2019, we continued to make significant investments—in strategic acquisitions, in assets and offerings, in branding and thought leadership, and in attracting and developing talent—to further enhance our differentiation and competitiveness.
Accenture Technology brings innovation, intelligence and deep industry experience together with leading technologies from our ecosystem partners to help organizations to transform into intelligent enterprises—and innovate at scale.
Accenture Technology comprises two primary areas: technology services and technology innovation & ecosystem.
Accenture Technology Services includes application services spanning systems integration and application outsourcing and covering the full application lifecycle, from custom systems to all emerging technologies, across every leading technology platform (both traditional and cloud/software-as-a-service based). It also encompasses cloud and infrastructure services, including security services, and a portfolio of products and intelligent platforms and services, as well as Advanced Technology Centers. “We continuously innovate new services, capabilities and platforms through early adoption of technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, intelligent automation, extended reality and quantum computing to enhance productivity and create new growth opportunities”, company points out.
On the other hand, its Technology Innovation & Ecosystem harness innovation through the research and development activities in the Accenture Labs and through emerging technologies. “We also develop and manage our alliance relationships across a broad range of technology providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Pegasystems, Salesforce, SAP, Workday and many others, to enhance the value that we and our clients realize from the technology ecosystem”, they explain from the company.
