Enterprise Integration: South Africa

Integration is a vital capability that underpins every organisation's ability to achieve high performance.

As global competition intensifies, organisations continually need to hone their business performance to survive. Accenture's continuing research shows that IT is one of the functional capabilities that must be mastered for companies to achieve high performance. IT is crucial to streamlining business processes, systems and information in order to deliver the levels of performance required.

Integration, as shown in Accenture's research, is one of the five key competences on which IT mastery relies. Once achieved, integration delivers the following business value:

• Better decision-making in a fast-paced world.
• Improved performance and customer satisfaction.
• Lower costs.

Surprisingly, few organisations have achieved high levels of integration, according to Accenture's wide-reaching research. Only 57 percent of respondents in a recent Accenture survey have integrated all or most of their enterprise solutions, while 19 percent have barely started the process. Although the systems environment is standardising, integration clearly remains a challenge. Accenture helps large, diverse organisations to capitalise on this maturing systems environment. Through facilitating long-term technology decisions, Accenture frees its clients to concentrate on business solutions rather than technology details.

Accenture in South Africa combines its profound knowledge of local market conditions and top-notch skills with full integration into the global Accenture organisation, perfectly positioning it to help clients achieve high performance.

For South African companies competing for their home markets and assessing international opportunities, Accenture offers the best of both worlds: a strong local partner that understands this market—plus access to global best practices and Accenture's formidable intellectual capital around the globe.

Accenture has the broad deep skills and experience to be a true partner in meeting the challenge of mastering enterprise integration:

• With nearly 500 active enterprise integration projects across all industries, Accenture globally employs more than 20,000 people trained in integrated systems design and development using the Microsoft .NET and J2EE platforms and nearly 6,000 people with core Enterprise Integration skills.
  
  
• Accenture has deep technical knowledge and insight, based on pure research via Accenture Technology Labs. In addition, we have developed reusable methodologies, toolsets and architectures that constitute a library of proven practices gleaned from decades of experience. This potent combination of technology and insight is complemented by a consistent implementation approach, again based on best practices derived from experience.

Learn More:

To find out how Accenture is helping clients move toward high performance through integration, download our brochure, "Seamless Integration: Reaching for High Performance Through Enterprise Integration." [PDF, 925K]
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Related Research & Insights:

To examine Accenture's research into the state of enterprise integration, download the full report The Return of Enterprise Solutions, The Director's Cut.

Accenture has a range of products and services specifically geared to helping clients achieve high performance through enterprise integration:

• Accenture Integration Diagnostic: Our unique toolset is designed to help clients assess their business environment, prioritise integration investment options and create a road map tied to their business objectives.
  
  
• Accenture Integration Accelerator: This suite of tools is accelerating the design and delivery of integration-based business capabilities.
  
  
• Architectures and Tools for Enterprise Integration: Accenture brings a series of technical architectures, frameworks, tools and methods to bear to help deliver innovative solutions in a consistent, effective manner.
  
  
• Interoperability in Enterprise Integration: Accenture is working with clients and other industry players to promote open technologies, standards and interoperability.
  
  
• Industry-specific Solutions for Enterprise Integration: We offer a wide range of industry-specific solutions that either leverage Web services standards or can be used to expose Web services—all tailored to help enable high performance.