Large Silicon Manufacturer: End to End System Integrations Lead to Reduced Operational Costs

Accenture Mobility Software Services took responsibility for a large silicon manufacturer’s baseport activities, including new hardware, interaction with third parties and customization of the platform for specific OEM requirements. By providing end-to-end system integration, we enabled the company to reduce operational costs.

The client is one the world’s largest silicon manufacturers and is active in the mobile devices arena.

As part of its sunset strategy, it sought a partner that would take responsibility for the legacy baseport software of the mobile chipset platform.

The partner would be responsible for baseport activities, including new hardware, platform hardening and interaction with third parties that provide components such as hardware accelerators as well as customization of the platform for specific OEM requirements.

The client’s end customers required baseport implementation on new hardware with full product quality, requiring adherence to budget requirements in an aggressive timeframe.

Accenture Mobility Software Services provided:

• End-to-end delivery of the baseport of an updated operating system to a new target chipset.
• Responsibility for integrating, testing and supporting new disruptive multimedia and graphics components.
• Integration and debugging of third-party vendor components.
• Fine tuning of system-wide performance, including multimedia subsystems.
• Took on full responsibility of development and maintenance of client code, development tools and platform testing.

By providing end-to-end system integration, we:

• Reduced operational costs by providing end-to-end system integration that included third-party and OEM interfaces.
• Facilitated client’s objective to focus on upcoming products and new technologies.
• Agreed on a commercial approach with an innovative “seed investment plus royalties” business model.
• Developed a new distributed delivery model for the United Kingdom, Japan and India based on Accenture’s Agile delivery methodology.
• Supported on-time shipment of the smartphone by the OEM end customer into a new market.