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Study finds that 14 percent of U.S. consumers "borrow" free Wi-Fi: A new study from Accenture reveals that 12 percent of U.S. and U.K. respondents admit to using someone else's Wi-Fi connection. Accenture says that piggybacking is more common in the United States, with one in seven people--14 percent-- admitting to borrowing someone else's signal. And, not surprisingly, the practice is...; Tags: U.S., Accenture Ltd., U.K., Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Security, Wireless, Rik Fairlie; Blog posts 2008-04-22
ATL's Knowledge Discovery Capability: I try to keep my posts non-technical, but sometimes I fail. This is one of those times. So it's probably best to skip the article below unless you played Dungeons & Dragons as a child. Accenture Technology Labs' rather generically-named Knowledge Discovery Capability KDC is actually a...; Tags: Network, Knowledge, Accenture Ltd., ATL, Knowledge Discovery Capability, Strategy, Management, Ed Gottsman; Blog posts 2008-02-25
US Productivity Slip, A Threat to Sustainability?: Bob Suh, Chief Technology Strategist at Accenture writing in yesterdays Financial Times hits the panic button on US productivity. Apparently it is starting to slip relative gains in Europe and China. The reason is an under investment in technology. I know what you are thinking, I'd be surprised too if...; Tags: Sustainability, Accenture Ltd., Compliance, Investment, Suh, James Farrar; Blog posts 2008-02-14
UK Rural Payments Agency (RPA): IT failure and gross incompetence screws farmers: A combination of IT failures and management incompetence have prevented the Rural Payments Agency RPA, which administers UK farm subsidy payments, from successfully executing its core mission despite years of effort. This extremely negative assessment is based on a new report issued by National Audit Office NAO. Accenture is implementing...; Tags: Payment, Agency, Information Technology, Accenture Ltd., U.K., Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2007-12-16
Accenture Finance Solutions Enhances Security While Improving Information Access and Reporting Tools: Accenture Finance Solutions is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. The company wanted to improve data security, as well as enhance and standardize access control procedures in line with statutory Italian business requirements, following the take-over of the existing Italian company, Arthis. The challenge was to upgrade...; Tags: Security, Reporting Tool, Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Accenture Ltd., Finance, Access Control, Accenture Finance Solution, Accenture Finance Solutions, Business Intelligence, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; Case studies 2007-11-01

Accenture's king of blue-sky thinking: Accenture's king of blue-sky thinkingContinuous Improvement and VirtualizationGreat interview and we can add to this notion "When you build a house, you don't want to knock it down and start again every time you want to make a change, and it should be the same with code development."It was almost...; Tags: Virtualization, Storage management, Strategy, operating system product, Accenture Ltd.; Discussion threads 2007-10-30
Tech earnings: So far so good: A trio of technology companies reported earnings and provided a rough sketch of industry conditions. Here's a quick survey of the landscape. Overall, the results weren't bad--with the exception of Tibco, which turned in a poor quarter. Combined with earnings from the likes of Oracle and Red Hat...; Tags: Revenue, TIBCO Software Inc., Cognos Inc., Accenture Ltd., Outsourcing, Earnings, Wall, Application Outsourcing, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-09-28
Accenture inks Microsoft as BPO customer: Accenture inks Microsoft as BPO customerThat's oddI thought MSFT's core processes were running on SAP. If so then this must be a change of tack.Ballmer was until Sarb Ox on Accenture's BoardBecause Ballmer was until recently on Accenture's board of directors, I find this news distressing. The arrangement does not...; Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, IT Services, Microsoft Office, Accenture Ltd., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., BPO; Discussion threads 2007-09-13
Accenture inks Microsoft as BPO customer: Accenture said Thursday that it has signed up Microsoft in a seven-year, $185 million business processing outsourcing agreement. Under the deal, Accenture will provide finance and accounting procurement services. Microsoft is outsourcing some of its finance processes and consolidating services. According to Accenture's statement, the company...; Tags: BPO, Accenture Ltd., Microsoft Corp., Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-09-13
When independent advice isn't: Tony Byrne of CMS Watch has commented on a story from Wired about a Federal Government lawsuit against Accenture, Sun, and HP. The suit alleges that Accenture defrauded the government of millions of dollars by taking kickbacks and rebates on massive government IT projects. There's nothing...; Tags: Accenture Ltd., Government, Phil Windley; Blog posts 2007-09-05
Accenture bulks up tech consulting: Accenture bulks up tech consultingThis statement should read the other way around..."But the short version seems to be that IT’s inability to work with business has been just wonderful for consultants"Should beBut the short version seems to be that business inability to work with IT has been just wonderful for...; Tags: Strategy, Project management, information technology, Accenture Ltd., business folk, intermediary, IT-staff; Discussion threads 2007-06-18
Accenture bulks up tech consulting: Accenture plans to invest $250 million in its technology consulting business. And why not? Companies are still trying to get business and IT aligned.Accenture's statement is just begging for a little read between the lines. But the short version seems to be that IT's inability to work with business has...; Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Innovation, IT Management, Outsourcing; Blog posts 2007-06-18
Accenture snags more financial services, government work: The consulting and outsourcing business is just swell. Accenture reported second quarter revenue of $4.75 billion, up 16 percent from a year ago, as the company booked record outsourcing sales. The companys earnings per share checked in at 47 cents...; Tags: Outsourcing, revenue, Accenture Ltd., financial service; Blog posts 2007-03-27
Just what the world needs: More consultants: Accenture is about to disappoint those who believe the last thing the corporate world needs is more consultants. Accenture, the giant consultant firm, says it wants to double its ranks of 13,000 "management consultant professionals." Meanwhile, Accenture said it wants to add all those consultants in the next three years....; Tags: Accenture Ltd.; Blog posts 2007-03-19
Analytics: See the Opportunity - But Don't Ignore the Pitfalls Along the Way: This intelligent shopping cart already exists - though up to now it has been pushed round an Accenture research laboratory near Nice rather than the local supermarket. But this technology will eventually come to a retail outlet nearby. And when it does, it will work by applying sophisticated real-time analytics...; Tags: Analytics, Accenture Ltd., Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2007-02-27
Can Accenture learn to love SaaS?: Can Accenture learn to love SaaS?Method 1Accenture was born of Arthur Andersen of Enron shredding fame. Method 1 was a business processes mechanism those of us at Arther Andersen used to spec out the development of systems back in the day when there were plenty of standard manual processes that...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Mainframes, Accenture Ltd., Method 1, software-as-a-service; Discussion threads 2006-10-20
Can Accenture learn to love SaaS?: Accenture and its competitors — both those based in US/Europe and the up-and-coming Indian IT services and outsourcing firms — are starting to take an interest in on-demand services. Even though they must be worried about the potential impact on their established business models, they can see on-demand revenues growing...; Tags: Accenture Ltd., Saas, on-demand; Blog posts 2006-10-20
Don't Be Mad, Just Leave: The UK National Health Service NHS is in the midst of a Â£12.4 billion IT project meltdown, which has been called the "greatest IT disaster in history". According to Silicon.com, Accenture has now left the project, turning over its remaining work to CSC. From the article: ...; Tags: Accenture Ltd., Director Of Information Technology, UK National Health Service, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2006-09-29
SAP, Accenture team up on health care software: SAP, Accenture team up on health care softwareVistA Medical Imagining/ RecordsAccenture is the former Andersen Consulting, of Arthur Andersen Enron shredding infamy. When I worked at Arthur Andersen, it had the largest health care IT consulting practice in the US, and wasn't married to any one vendor. I worked as...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, team, health care, Accenture Ltd., MUMPS, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2006-09-20
AlwaysOn: U.S. lags China and Europe in new technology adoption: AlwaysOn: U.S. lags China and Europe in new technology adoptionBeggars beliefThese guys must really think that people are just stupid. This is how it works: Accenture guy identifies that sales are down in US.Accenture people get together and decide that a good dose of FUD will drive sales up.So...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Accenture Ltd., technology adoption, AlwaysOn; Discussion threads 2006-07-27