June 25, 2015

Accenture Recognized with Six Oracle Excellence Awards in Europe


NEW YORK; June 25, 2015 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) was recently awarded six 2015 Oracle Excellence Awards in Europe recognizing Accenture’s commitment to deliver innovative, specialized capabilities and services based on Oracle solutions. The awards include:

The Specialized Partner of the Year Awards are part of the Oracle Excellence Awards, which recognizes the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized alliance partners’ commitment to delivering innovative solutions and business performance. These awards highlight excellence in a number of areas, including sales, marketing, solution development, and customer satisfaction. To date, Accenture has won 96 Oracle Excellence Awards.

“These six recent Oracle Excellence Awards are a testament to Accenture’s focus and commitment to delivering innovative solutions and services that drive real business results for clients,” said Corinne Koppel, Accenture managing director and EALA (Europe, Africa and Latin America) Oracle Platform lead. “We are pleased to be recognized for the second year in a row with these awards in both Finland and Sweden, and for the first time in Italy, Denmark and Norway for our Engineered Systems, Middleware and Industry capabilities. The awards mark a huge milestone in helping our clients achieve their business goals through our Oracle engineered systems and our Application Services for Oracle offerings.”

With its extensive capabilities across Oracle’s portfolio of hardware and software solutions, Accenture has built a number of assets to complement Oracle Engineered Systems including the Accenture Innovation Center for Oracle Engineered Systems. Additionally, Accenture’s portfolio of offerings for Oracle takes a holistic view of enterprise systems to cover the full software development lifecycle to deliver systems faster, more affordably and with increased value.

“Accenture continues to exemplify why they are a valued systems integrator globally and an OPN Diamond-level member,” said Troy Richardson, Oracle senior vice president of Global Strategic Alliances. “Accenture’s ability and commitment to delivering proven, Oracle-based solutions to help solve our joint customers’ business challenges is the reason we have acknowledged them with these awards.”

Accenture has more than 52,000 Oracle-skilled consultants around the world who help accelerate digital transformation by implementing Oracle-based business solutions and new business processes that can develop and evolve as their digital business grows. Accenture has teamed with Oracle for more than two decades and is a Diamond-level member in Oracle PartnerNetwork.

About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 336,000 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$30.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle’s partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle’s growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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