Silent Commerce

Silent commerce uses wireless mobile communications, as well as advanced tagging and sensor technologies. This technology is making everyday objects intelligent and interactive, while creating new information and value streams. It is “silent” because the objects can communicate and commerce can take place without human interaction.

What if your products, your inventory or any of your physical assets could sense the characteristics of their environment, know their location and could tell you about it? If that were possible, you could sit at your desk and instantly take inventory, track every item and be warned if products were being stolen.

Today, these capabilities are real, thanks to a groundbreaking technology and business solution that Accenture calls "silent commerce." Accenture is pioneering these exciting new business solutions and working with companies around the world to deliver innovative applications.

Accenture’s Silent Commerce solution helps companies realize new value from intelligent objects.

Accenture’s Silent Commerce business solution provides:

• An infrastructure for silent commerce development—a leading edge software framework.
  
  
• A set of services for rapid roll-out of sophisticated silent commerce applications in collaboration with clients worldwide.
  
  
• A range of solutions, including inventory control, asset management, supply chain visibility, customer insight, anti-counterfeiting, anti-diversion, theft prevention, enhanced merchandising, vendor managed inventory and enhanced process quality and efficiency.

Teaming with Accenture to deliver this Silent Commerce infrastructure offers companies a number of important benefits, including:

• Reduced development time and cost.
  
  
• Detailed development guidelines and proven application architecture patterns.
  
  
• An open and scalable architecture, with quality attributes built into the design.