Accenture believes application outsourcing isn’t about what you can subtract from a business. It’s about what you can add. Like a partner completely synchronized with your overall business objectives. Or process excellence that exceeds what you can do on your own. Balancing cost cutting with business growth Through Application Outsourcing, we industrialize application development, maintenance and support to align IT investments with a client’s strategic imperatives and can reduce costs by as much as 50 percent. And we provide “more.” Application Outsourcing can create new business value through optimization of application portfolios, improved ROI and decreased total cost of ownership – all while improving quality by 50 percent or more and increasing productivity by more than 40 percent. For more than 20 years, Accenture has worked with more than 600 organizations around the world to enable high performance through application outsourcing. Our services are multi-dimensional to meet your every business need: Services: We take fresh approaches to application development and application management and offer a flexible spectrum of application outsourcing solutions. You can choose production support and application maintenance services or broaden the scope to include application testing, enhancements, upgrades, comprehensive application development or legacy modernization. Breadth of applications: We can focus on a single application, a group of applications or an entire portfolio of software applications. And we have deep skills and experience in all leading business packaged applications as well as custom and industry applications. Business model: We tailor our outsourcing engagements to meet your specific needs, carefully considering size and complexity. Whether providing one skilled IT professional to supplement your staff or engaging in a strategic partnership to drive business outcomes, we can support your full range of IT needs. Download our brochure To learn more about our capabilities, download our brochure Achieving High Performance through Application Outsourcing [PDF, 761KB]. PDF Help View our video John Maguire, managing director—Application Outsourcing Sales for Accenture, explains what differentiates Accenture in the marketplace. What the analysts say “[Among Application Management service providers] Accenture holds the number 2 position both worldwide and in the United States, with shares of 16.2 percent and 19.2 percent, respectively.” © Copyright IDC. Source: [IDC, Worldwide and U.S. Application Management Services Vendor Shares, 2005: IDC's Top 10 Vendors, Doc #203995, Oct 2006] “Accenture’s growth in the market has been nothing less than extraordinary, and it now occupies the number 2 position in U.S. AO revenue. Indeed, Accenture’s growth path has been so strong compared with the number 1 vendor by revenue in the U.S. market (IBM), that we believe Accenture has a real chance of taking the number 1 spot in the next few years.” © Copyright IDC. Source: [IDC, U.S. Application Outsourcing Services 2006 Vendor Analysis: Competitive Landscape and IDC Leadership Grid, Doc #204179, November 2006] Back to the Application Outsourcing home page. Back to the Outsourcing home page. Next: Why Accenture |