Partnerships: Global Alliances

Accenture

Company profile

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company that helps clients become high-performance businesses and governments. With more than 180,000 people in 49 countries, Accenture generated net revenues of US$19.70 billion for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 2007.

Accenture’s "high-performance business" strategy helps clients create sustainable value for their customers and shareholders. Using its extensive industry knowledge, service-offering expertise, and technology capabilities, Accenture identifies new business and technology trends and develops solutions to help its clients:

• Enter new markets.
• Increase revenues in existing markets.
• Improve operational performance.
• Deliver their products and services more effectively and efficiently.

Partner profile

The alliance between EMC Corporation and Accenture delivers unrivaled support and top-quality solutions to its clients.  A focus on enterprise content management, automatic data capture, and storage infrastructure consulting has driven this collaboration.  EMC’s solutions work within the framework of Accenture’s assets and solutions, providing additional support and complementing the existing integrations. 
Accenture has a steady history of using EMC products as part of their Content Management Solutions to review, manage and transform incoming content to best address the customers’ needs.   The customer reaps both short and long-term benefits by consolidating their servers, systems, applications, and storage to achieve quicker processes.

The alliance’s comprehensive approach includes infrastructure, applications, and processes. Automated solutions drive down costs and increase productivity.  EMC and Accenture combine joint expertise, which means the client realizes the best solutions and highest efficiencies possible, increasing overall revenue potential.

The solutions offered through this unique partnership span a variety of complex IT challenges such as:

• Entertainment Content Management – Enable communications companies to deliver digital television, mobileTV, and other entertainment services over various network infrastructures.
• Information Solutions Consulting – Gain open, platform-independent storage consulting services through an outsourced arrangement between Accenture and EMC.
• Mobile Content Delivery – Benefit from a complete content lifecycle management solution featuring a Documentum-based content distribution engine that helps media companies categorize and provision media to mobile devices.
• Electronic Data Document Management – Leverage the EMC/Documentum information architecture with Captiva’s document scanning and imaging technologies to help financial services companies convert, store, and maintain their most critical documents in an easily accessible, electronic format.

Together, EMC and Accenture help their clients develop end-to-end solutions that improve service levels, decrease costs, protect information, achieve compliance, and better manage their overall information infrastructure. 

“EMC is proud of its strong and growing relationship with Accenture, a leading alliance organization and a mutual customer.  We have married EMC’s expertise in information lifecycle management with Accenture’s service expertise to help enterprises extract the maximum value from their information at the lowest total cost,” says Joe Tucci, President and CEO, EMC.