Custom Development Capability

Combining our assets, skills, alliances and end-to-end delivery, custom development accelerates competitive advantage and helps organizations achieve high performance.

Accenture’s custom development capability spans three areas of work: bespoke solutions, hybrid solutions and large-scale integration and includes:

• Assets—We offer either technology-driven assets such as the Accenture Foundation Architecture for Java, or industry-driven assets such as the Accenture Life Insurance Platform.
  
  
• Delivery Model—Our planning, management and collaboration techniques for ensuring successful end-to-end delivery from single to multi-site development efforts.
  
  
• Skills—Industry, technology, development and management skills, all mastered by our professionals.
  
  
• Experience—We have a 30-year track record of accelerated systems integration delivery across all facets of commercial and public service organizations.
  
  
• Alliances—We offer strategic relationships with third parties whose commercial software, hardware and point skills extend and complement our internal capabilities.

We are helping clients, including KLM and UK Work & Pensions, to enhance their agility across industry sectors and continue to drive innovative custom solutions.

The Accenture custom development capability offers clients several benefits including:

• Differentiation: Increased competitive advantage allowing clients to achieve greater efficiencies in the business processes that are their key differentiators.
  
  
• Tailored Solutions: Taking into account companies individual business models.
  
  
• Cost Efficiency: Using end-to-end managed delivery to reduce costs and achieve reliable delivery schedules.
  
  
• Predefined Accenture Assets, Relationships and Experience: Taking advantage of insights gained from numerous client interactions.
  
  
• Leading-Edge Performance, Response Time and Scale Requirements: Extending and integrating the capabilities of native technology platforms by using our skills in building systems and our ability to apply solutions from diverse vendors.

Accenture has defined a series of industry- and technology-specific standardized approaches to further industrialize, simplify and accelerate the use of our custom development capability. These predefined scenarios address business requirements that cannot be met cost-effectively with other approaches; for instance, where functionality is not commercially available or cannot be customized in a reasonable way due to the uniqueness of requirements or the complexity of the underlying packages.

Custom development is also the answer where technologies are the enabler, independent of the packaged solution, such as rich Internet applications, business intelligence, software-as-a-service, service-oriented architecture and open source.

Above all, custom development is about meeting customer needs by design—the first time around—rather than having to re-construct third-party solutions.