Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is having a profound impact on integrating applications and business processes. Accenture, with leading industry, process and technical experience, is helping guide organizations through the SOA journey.   SOA can help organizations boost business performance while reducing IT costs and enhancing the flexibility of business processes.
In today's competitive global markets, companies are under pressure to achieve high performance through improved productivity, faster time to market, greater flexibility and a more effective workforce. Achieving these goals requires them to use IT more effectively—posing huge challenges for IT departments to deliver simpler, more flexible systems at a lower cost of ownership. This must be accomplished even though corporate IT systems are heterogeneous, with multiple products across multiple platforms. Accenture believes that SOA holds the key to meeting these challenges—a view many leading analysts share. SOA is a services-based approach for designing and building flexible IT solutions, easily combining legacy and new technologies. It enables business process components to be assembled and orchestrated efficiently and rapidly, giving businesses the agility to respond to changing conditions and delivering distinctive business services. For internal IT organizations, it enables simpler systems that are less expensive to run, can be modified easily and integrate better with other platforms. In this way, SOA provides for success in today's business conditions while also enabling the flexibility required to sustain that success into the future—a key driver of high performance. Why Accenture
Accenture harnesses deep industry and business process knowledge with the consummate ability to craft technology solutions that enable high performance. Accenture has a demonstrable track record for helping clients implement new technologies and architectures to help clients on their journey toward high performance. We are perfectly positioned to guide our clients through the SOA journey: - Technology thought leadership—From innovation to what works, nobody understands how to use technology to better business advantage than Accenture. Our technology vision is driven by Accenture Technology Labs, our technology research and development organization.
- Intellectual capital—We can provide both a roadmap and a full suite of methods, tools and architectures.
- Skills—Globally we have 400 architects with deep SOA skills; a 6,000-strong SOA community of practice across all industry groups; and an established, global enterprise integration team.
- Global Delivery Network—Our 40,000 professionals spread across over 30 facilities spanning the globe enable the perfect match of skills and price.
- Technology partnerships—Accenture leverages existing partnerships to give it the edge in SOA. We launched the Accenture Innovation Center for SAP NetWeaver and plan additional centers with partners. Our close alliances with the leading technology vendors include:
- Microsoft.NET
- SAP NetWeaver
- Oracle Fusion
- IBM WebSphere
- Positive analyst reports: Respected analysts are already rating Accenture highly as a SOA partner. Read how respected industry analysts IDC and Forrester rate Accenture's SOA capabilities.
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