IDC Marketscape: Accenture a Leader in Global Outsourced Testing Services

The IDC MarketScape: Global Testing Services, 2010 Vendor Analysis (IDC # 223954), published in July 2010, evaluates the global testing services of global and regional integrated service providers. The assessment analyzes both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that clarify success in the business strategy and technical execution of discrete and embedded testing services, for both enterprise application and product engineering testing services.

Based on a comprehensive analysis and comparative study of the marketplace success of competitors, IDC noted that, “The range and size of its testing contracts have enabled Accenture to rapidly evolve its internal capabilities in test automation with reusable components, refined methodologies and processes to accelerate the quality and speed of delivery for clients.”

Specifically, IDC recognized Accenture’s leadership position, highlighting the following:

• Strength of its offerings for both current capabilities
• Its future strategy
• Its geographically distributed practice

IDC also emphasized that Accenture continues to expand and differentiate itself in test capabilities, especially in the applied statistics process framework. "Applied statistics drives quality industrialization upstream in the systems development life cycle by forcing rigor around the unit and string testing of systems through the optimization of test scripts, which validate thousands of features and data permutations in combination with each other."

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