Microsoft Application Platform: Launch 2005: Accenture-Avanade

ACCENTURE-AVANADE-MICROSOFT OVERVIEW

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. Accenture works closely with Microsoft to help its customers implement Microsoft-based solutions to become high-performance businesses and governments. Accenture provides a wide range of services, including infrastructure consulting, SAP with Microsoft, outsourcing, and information management.

Avanade, founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Microsoft Corporation and Accenture, is the leading global technology integrator specializing in the Microsoft enterprise platform. With over 3,300 employees in 34 locations worldwide, Avanade helps customers around the world maximize their IT investment and create comprehensive solutions that drive business results. Avanade offers a range of solutions that can help organizations optimize their infrastructures, build and integrate efficient Microsoft .NET applications, foster collaboration and better information sharing, and deploy strategic business solutions within their existing environments. Avanade solutions combine its deep technical skills, ready-to-use assets, best practices, and domain expertise to ensure it achieves business goals and creates competitive advantage for its customers.

By partnering with organizations to define how technology can help them achieve their business visions, Accenture and Avanade solutions can help organizations maximize their IT investment and increase operational performance.

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Discover Accenture and Avanade joint capabilities around Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006.

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Accenture-Avanade-Microsoft Alliance

The alliance between Accenture, Avanade, and Microsoft is unmatched due to the depth and breadth of our combined capabilities—Accenture brings industry insight and business acumen focused on helping customers become high-performance businesses and governments; Microsoft brings mission-critical enterprise software; and Avanade brings a deep Microsoft technology skill-set unmatched in the industry. By working together on over 1,500 projects, we have developed joint solutions on the Microsoft platform that enable our customers to realize business benefits faster, with increased efficiency and lower overall IT costs. Furthermore, the alliance minimizes risk by providing a proven team with deep technical expertise, direct access to our support channels, and pre-configured, tested assets. With over 70 industry-specific offerings and cross-industry offerings on the Microsoft platform, plus a full suite of tools and accelerators, we create value by producing a significant return on our customers' investments.

PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Accenture and Avanade employ the capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 through the following solutions we offer to our customers:

Application Development

Service-Oriented Architecture: Create more agile and flexible customer applications by modeling business capabilities and processes as services to better manage complexity, permit controlled change, and support continuous improvement.
Web Applications: Build customer applications that can be delivered to wider audiences via a Web browser, allowing easier and more cost-effective deployment and maintenance.
Mobile, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and Microsoft Office System Smart Client Applications: Help our customers increase profitability and flexibility by developing rich client features and scalable, cost-effective mobile solutions that can be delivered over multiple client devices, both online and offline, including laptops, PDAs, and smart phones.

Business Intelligence

Customer Intimacy: Effectively capture and analyze customer behavior to better target sales and marketing activities; improve the customer experience by providing them with actionable information; and improve profit margins by more effectively bundling goods and services.
Supply Chain/Real-time RFID: Enable our customers to gain real-time insight into their supply chain and move to a "sense and respond"/"manage by exception" environment.
Performance Management: Help customers get a detailed picture of their costs and profitability by any combination of product, customer or customer segment, geography, or channel.

Enterprise Integration

Develop systems that integrate customer data, applications, information, and processes to reduce costs while increasing business functionality, efficiency, and agility.

JOINT VALUE PROPOSITION

The alliance between Accenture, Avanade, and Microsoft helps customers:

Reduce overall IT costs by assessing an organization's IT strategy and using the full capabilities of the alliance to create a cost-effective technology solution.
Improve business performance while reducing risk by employing proven Microsoft-based technology solutions, a proven delivery approach, and a focus on helping our customers become high-performance businesses and governments.
Become and stay competitive by understanding the industry and bringing the right combination of products and product expertise to create a solution that results in competitive advantage.

For more information, please contact our alliance, or contact your local Accenture or Avanade office.