December 02, 2015

Accenture Named IBM’s 2015 Worldwide Analytics Global System Integrator of the Year

New York; Dec. 2, 2015 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been named IBM’s 2015 Worldwide Analytics Global System Integrator of the Year. This award recognizes Accenture for its business performance, innovative solutions and deep expertise across the IBM Analytics portfolio.

Accenture Analytics’ Narendra Mulani (center) accepting IBM’s 2015 Worldwide Analytics Global System Integrator of the Year award from (l to r): Mariella Razetto, Vice President, Worldwide Business Partner Sales & Ecosystem Development, IBM Analytics; Beth Smith, General Manager, Analytics Platform, IBM Analytics; Neil Isford, General Manager, Client Success, Analytics Solutions & Services, IBM Analytics; Frank Luksic, General Manager, Client Success, IBM Analytics

The award was presented to Accenture during the IBM Business Partner Summit at IBM Insight 2015 on October 24 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Being named IBM’s Worldwide Analytics Global System Integrator of the Year is a significant recognition for Accenture that showcases our ability to deliver innovative analytics solutions to clients across industries and around the globe,” said Narendra Mulani, senior managing director, Accenture Analytics, part of Accenture Digital. “We have been collaborating with the IBM technology groups for more than two decades and look forward to our continued efforts to helping clients turn data into an asset and make insight-driven decisions for a competitive advantage.”

Accenture is one of the world’s largest technology services providers for IBM software and hardware, with more than 40,000 practitioners worldwide skilled in IBM technologies who deliver a broad range of services across the IBM solution portfolio. Alongside analytics and big data, these include service-oriented architecture for application and middleware integration, business process management, commerce, smarter infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-a-Service, mobility and security. Specific to analytics and big data, Accenture delivers complex Digital transformation projects around a single view of customer and Predictive Insights, leveraging IBM software solutions that include: data quality and governance plus staging with DataStage and QualityStage; cloud data warehousing leveraging Bluemix with its significant range of big data and cognitive (Watson) services; Master Data Management with InfoSphere MDM; Business Intelligence with the Cognos family including TM1 for financial performance management; and predictive analytics with SPSS; and Enterprise Content Management with FileNet, Case Manager, Datacap and StoredIQ to capture, transform, deliver and govern content throughout the enterprise.

About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 358,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$31.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2015. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Accenture Analytics, part of Accenture Digital, delivers insight-driven outcomes at scale to help organizations improve their performance. With deep industry, functional, business process and technical experience, Accenture Analytics develops innovative consulting and outsourcing services for clients to help ensure they receive returns on their analytics investments. Accenture also offers analytics platforms that can drive data-driven decisions: the Accenture Insights Platform– a cloud-based, end-to-end analytics solution designed to deliver real-time actionable insights – and the Accenture Analytics Applications Platform – a scalable platform that develops industry- and function-specific advanced analytics applications that are reusable, configurable and adaptable to meet the needs of each unique company and its individual users. For more information follow us @ISpeakAnalyticsand visit www.accenture.com/analytics.

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