LONDON; March 4, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired ?What If!, a privately owned innovation firm that uses an experimentation-driven approach to help clients incubate new products, services, business models and organizational cultures.

NEW YORK and SINGAPORE; Mar. 4, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has expanded the worldwide leadership team of Accenture Interactive Operations with the hiring of Caspar Schlickum as regional managing director for Asia Pacific (APAC) and Peter Kolster Hansen as managing director and worldwide lead for Next-Generation Content Services.

NEW YORK; March 4, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) received six 2019 SAP^® Partner Excellence Awards, presented to top alliance partners that have that have made outstanding regional contributions to driving companies’ digital transformation.

HOUSTON; Feb. 28, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has invested in and formed an alliance with P97 Networks Inc. (P97), a leader in cloud-based mobile commerce, in-vehicle payments and digital marketing solutions for the convenience retail, fuel and vehicle-manufacturing industries.

WILMINGTON, N.C., LONDON and SYDNEY; Feb. 26, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and nCino have expanded the geographic scope of their alliance to help financial institutions in Asia-Pacific and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) implement and adopt nCino’s cloud-based digital banking solution, enabling them to accelerate their digital transformations while streamlining their various business lines, minimizing risk and increasing profitability.

NEW YORK; Feb. 26, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has, for the first time, implemented the Accenture Life Insurance & Annuity Platform (ALIP) for new business and underwriting in a full-service cloud-hosted environment. The innovative solution combines ALIP on Microsoft Azure cloud; the RGA AURA^® underwriting rules engine, which is now available out-of-the-box within ALIP; and Accenture’s application and infrastructure outsourcing service.

BARCELONA; Feb. 26, 2019 – The Accenture Virtual Experience Solutions (AVEnueS) has won “Best Mobile VR or AR” at the GSMA GLOMO Awards 2019. The award was presented at MWC19 Barcelona yesterday.

BARCELONA; Feb. 26, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) launched its Applied Intelligence Platform today at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, to make it easier for clients to transform the enterprise through artificial intelligence (AI). The new platform allows organizations to apply pre-configured self-learning industry solutions, as well as develop new solutions, without the need for deep data science expertise — which is becoming an increasingly scarce resource.

HONG KONG, NEW YORK and LONDON; Feb. 25, 2019 – Global investment in financial technology (fintech) ventures more than doubled in 2018, to US$55.3 billion, led by a surge in funding in China and strong gains in several other markets as investors placed larger bets in more mature startups, according to Accenture (NYSE: ACN) analysis of data from CB Insights, a global venture-finance data and analytics firm. 

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina; Feb. 25, 2019 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) opened a Liquid Studio in Buenos Aires to help clients accelerate innovation and business development based on rapid deployment of new technologies. The studio brings together professionals with over 25 technological specialties, working side-by-side with clients to build innovative solutions with speed and agility.