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Accenture Articles & Blogs

Accenture's Cloud Business Already at $1 Billion-a-year, Aims to Become Industry's Cloud Broker
Forbes, April 29, 2013

Want to Benefit From the ‘Cloud’? Figure Out Your Data
CNBC, April 24, 2013

Four Steps to Achieve Returns on your Analytics Investments
Information Management, April 24, 2013

Companies have got to get digital
The Irish Times, April 22, 2013

Video: Lisa Mitnick, Managing Director for Accenture Mobility talks about the business case for mobility
Techwire, April 9, 2013

Accenture Cloud Platform Launches
eWeek, April 8, 2013

What makes for a good API?
Tech World, April 5, 2013

Accenture Pledges Big Investment To Develop Cloud
Investor’s Business Daily, April 5, 2013

7 Insights On Hiring Data Gurus
InformationWeek, April 2, 2013

Skanska turns to Accenture to implement Oracle Fusion applications
Computerweekly, March 28, 2013

Accenture's 7 Tech Trends Driving Digital Business
InformationWeek, March 20, 2013

4 Steps to Turning Big Data into Business Impact
Forbes, March 18, 2013

Cloud computing is here. Are you ready?
The Globe and Mail, March 13, 2013

Many Organizations Miss the Mark on Analytics
Baseline, March 13, 2013

Becoming a Digital Business
CIO Insight, March 12, 2013

Big Data is Here–Now the Real Work Begins
Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2013

Predictive analytics adoption triples, says Accenture
ComputerWeekly, March 5, 2013

Data analytics grows but firms still put their trust in gut instinct
ZDNet, March 5, 2013

Executive Profiles

Martin I. Cole, Group Chief Executive, Technology

Michael J. Salvino, Group Chief Executive, Business Process Outsourcing

Gavin Michael, Chief Technology Innovation Officer

Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology Officer

Frank B. Modruson, Chief Information Officer

Michelle Swanback, Technology Lead, North America

Jeremy Oates, Technology Lead EALA

Wendy Stops, Technology Lead, APAC

Gary Curtis, Chief Technology Strategist

Narendra Mulani, Managing Director, Accenture Analytics

Mark Willford, Managing Director, Technology Ecosystems and Offerings

Christophe Mouille, managing director of SAP alliance

Derek Steelberg, manager director of Oracle alliance

Colin Davies, managing director, Accenture Software

Alastair MacWillson, managing director, Security

Accenture Points of View

Embracing the consumer IT revolution at work – More and more employees are using their own devices and software in their jobs. Company executives must manage this fundamental change to realize the benefits consumer IT brings to the workplace.

Partners in high performance – New research reveals eight best practices critical to creating a more strategic, balanced and thoughtful approach to establishing and managing business process outsourcing engagements.

Why big systems are here to stay – It’s hardly an exaggeration to say that large enterprise IT systems help run the world. But that world is changing. A new generation of applications and platforms – combining the best of traditional solutions with cloud-based, on-demand services – is taking IT to a new level and teaching big systems how to be more agile.

Podcasts & Videos

Social Commerce: Drive Sales Through Social Networking -- Accenture’s Gavin Michael explores the new rules of social commerce and the opportunities to use social media to connect with customers to drive and achieve new sales and growth.

The Cloud Environment Places a Premium on IT Governance – this podcast discusses the security implications of the burgeoning cloud environment and how structured IT governance can mitigate these risks

The Social Media Management Handbook – in this video, the authors highlight key themes of the new book, which serves as a practical guide to help executives with everything they need to know to get social media working in their organization.

Consumerization of IT – listen as Accenture IT leaders share thoughts on the idea of people bringing their own technology into the workplace and the challenges this creates. The consumerization of IT is happening whether companies choose to embrace it or not.

Client and Internal Case Studies

Aidmatrix: How Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud Platform Helps Humanitarian Relief -- with Accenture’s help, Aidmatrix successfully moved its infrastructure onto the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, helping them deliver critical humanitarian relief assistance at a lower cost.

Clarence House and Google: Rapid Website Creation – learn how Accenture and Google collaborated with Clarence House to take the Royal Wedding website live in just four weeks. At its peak on the day of the wedding the site supported 15 million page views and processed over 2,000 requests per second.

Accenture: 10 steps toward high performance IT – read about how Accenture reduced IT expenditure and simplified systems, cutting the number of global applications by almost a third and consolidating multiple platforms into one.

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