Accenture (NYSE: ACN) launched a new Center of Excellence for Oracle
Engineered Systems, hosted by the Accenture Innovation Centers for
Oracle®, which will help enable faster and more cost-effective
implementation of Oracle solutions for Accenture's clients globally. The
virtual center is dedicated to accelerating the development, delivery
and commercialization of business solutions based on Oracle’s Engineered
Systems, including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic
Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine. All of this will
be provided to clients through a flexible, elastic cloud platform
enabled by Oracle’s cloud technologies.
The new Accenture Center of Excellence for Oracle brings together
Accenture’s functional and industry experience with leading Oracle
technologies. Before making a significant investment, clients can test
their workloads on Oracle Engineered Systems to get a picture of how a
similar setup can accelerate their enterprise applications and
strengthen analytics capabilities for performance and business benefits.
Comprising a package of servers, storage, networking and software,
Oracle Exadata Database Machine can help deliver performance,
scalability, and reliability, and is backed by Oracle Support. The
package is designed to be is a cost effective hardware platform to run
and consolidate databases, data warehouses, and On-Line Transaction
Processing (OLTP) applications. Oracle Exalogic consists of hardware and
software engineered together that can provide performance, reliability
and scalability for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications,
while delivering lower total cost of ownership (TCO), reduced risk and
higher user productivity.
Accenture works with clients to move beyond costly, complex
infrastructure, using Oracle Engineered Systems to help design a cost
efficient, flexible and scalable infrastructure. Accenture has built a
number of offerings to complement Oracle’s Engineered Systems. For
instance, Accenture
Foundation Platform for Oracle (AFPO), which helps clients
accelerate application deployments on Oracle Fusion Middleware, has been
designed to operate on Oracle Exalogic. AFPO can help accelerate Oracle
Exalogic and Oracle Exadata projects with rapid development images using
Oracle VM that provide a snapshot of the data center environment. The
Exalogic ready pre-tested, integrated and configured images, based on
Oracle Fusion Middleware, can significantly reduce the implementation
effort.
Additionally, Accenture secured access to Oracle Exalytics
In-Memory Machine and developed proof-of-concepts leveraging the
performance of Oracle Exalytics. As organizations’ business needs
dictate new demands around the use of analytics, Accenture is building
analytics solutions that help organizations maximize the power of Oracle
Exalytics and Oracle Business Intelligence and move to a new level of
performance. With numerous implementations of Oracle Exalytics
completed, Accenture continues to build its experience and capabilities
for companies in this market.
“With heightened interest from enterprises in big data and cloud
technologies, this is the perfect opportunity for clients to experiment
with new technologies without making a large investment,” said Derek
Steelberg, global managing director of Oracle business for Accenture.
“The new Accenture Center of Excellence for Oracle Engineered Systems
will help our clients derive even greater value from leading Oracle
solutions and help accelerate business results.”
Supported by consultants from Accenture and Oracle, the center will
provide clients with process-specific business solutions, thought
leadership around existing and emerging Oracle solution-based
technology, including several of Accenture’s industry-specific solutions
based on Oracle technology. Accenture has a fast-growing Oracle
enterprise solutions practice, with more than 52,000 consultants around
the world qualified to provide implementation, upgrade and application
outsourcing solutions for the Oracle product suite.
Accenture is a Diamond level partner in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company, with approximately 261,000 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$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2012. Its home page
is www.accenture.com.
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