 
Technology innovation is one of the drivers of high performance across all industries—but the trick is to make that innovation commercially useful. Accenture Technology Labs specializes in pushing the limits of technical innovation and then, when the time is ripe, creating commercial applications. The Technology Labs has led the development of intelligent devices from the early days of radio frequency identification to the point where the technology is ready to play its role in helping businesses and governments achieve high performance. To that end, Accenture Technology Labs has developed Accenture Intelligent Device Architecture. Based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles, Intelligent Device Architecture provides the framework that will allow organizations to integrate intelligent objects into their business processes effectively. Accenture Intelligent Device Architecture can effectively remove many of the barriers to the successful integration of intelligent devices into the enterprise systems. Built on the Microsoft .NET framework, Accenture's Intelligent Device Architecture also leverages Avanade's ACA.NET technical architecture for a core set of common services. It resides on top of those frameworks, providing the ability to handle multiple types of sensors, as well as multiple hierarchies of sensors. Organizations can expect to realize from Accenture Intelligent Device Architecture: - Integrating multiple types of sensors. The service-oriented approach makes it flexible enough to handle disparate devices working within a total solution. It permits easier device management and communications management.
- Supporting multiple business applications. Because the solution is open and flexible, and because users can define new profiles and hierarchies of profiles, companies can now more easily use sensor information across multiple business applications. Different back-end applications can get easy access to sensor data without worrying about underlying configurations.
- Future-proofing. Perhaps the most important benefit of the architecture is not having to worry about placing bets on particular sensor or network hardware and software. Users can build their business applications and implement the architecture without concern for the long-term viability of the technology. If and when the underlying technologies change, users can just plug in a new sensor and profile.
Intelligent Device Architecture is a powerful example of how Accenture Technology Labs harnesses innovation to help businesses and governments achieve high performance. Find out more about intelligent device integration and how it can help your organization improve performance. Find out how service-oriented architecture helps organizations boost business performance while reducing IT costs. Find out more about the alliance between Accenture, Microsoft and Avanade—and how it can help organizations in the journey toward high performance. To Top |