Accenture Innovation Center for Open Source

It can speed time-to-market and substantially lower licensing and maintenance costs. OSS also offers comparable features and quality as well as greater deployment flexibility, enabling a more expansive use in enterprise applications.

Accenture offers deep open source implementation experience to enable businesses and governments make the optimal use of OSS. The Accenture Innovation Center for Open Source in Bangalore, India, is the global hub of our open source capabilities. It offers clients an environment where they can see how open source solutions—assessed and tested by the center—work in simulated environments. The center also hosts workshops to help clients create innovative solutions to business problems using open source technologies.

The Accenture Innovation Center for Open Source is a major step in our efforts to deliver a broad range of capabilities around open source. The center:

• Showcases distinctive solution stacks in client workshops.
  
  
• Hosts visioning and thought leadership sessions.
  
  
• Assesses open source governance structures and suggests improvements where necessary.
  
  
• Accelerates time-to-market for new open source based solutions.
  
  
• Provides support for building open source alternatives to proprietary solutions that maintain or exceed the capabilities of existing IT applications and systems.
  
  
• Demonstrates how to reduce the total cost of ownership of open source based applications.
  
  
• Harnesses the extensive knowledge, experience and capabilities of Accenture professionals as well as those of distinguished open source vendors and trusted communities.