Technology Analyst Recognition

Accenture has been rated the highest Leader in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix® Assessment for Salesforce Industry Cloud Services, positioned ahead of all competitors in both Market Impact and Vision & Capability.

According to the report, Accenture’s consistency in winning Salesforce Partner Innovation Awards and recognition with the highest industry expertise level indicates its capability and credibility in the market. Additionally, clients recognized Accenture for its track record of successful implementations, technology-functional expertise, and a global talent pool of industry cloud resources. Accenture was the only provider to be measured ‘high’ in the Value Delivered and Vision and Strategy capabilities.

“Accenture is strongly positioned as the overall market leader in Salesforce Industry Cloud services for its consulting-led approach to helping clients with their largest transformations,” said Yugal Joshi, partner, Everest Group. “Accenture stands out for the value and transformational impact it delivers to clients, as well as for its innovative vision, future roadmap and strategy.”

Other strengths highlighted in the report include Accenture’s ability to orchestrate capabilities through thought leadership; and its strong suite of industry-focused IP tools, frameworks and solutions to expedite time-to-market.

The Everest Group Salesforce Industry Cloud Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022 report is available here.

Accenture has been named a Leader in open finance IT services in a report by industry analyst firm Everest Group.

In the report, titled “Open Finance IT Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022,” Accenture is positioned as a Leader for both Market Impact, which assesses service providers against criteria such as market adoption, portfolio mix and value delivered to clients; and Vision & Capability, which measures firms’ strategy, scope of services, innovation & investments, and delivery.

According to Everest Group, Accenture has been driving open finance strategies for banks and market participants and collaborating with regulators globally to shape the open finance agenda. The report notes that Accenture has dedicated partnerships with fintechs, data providers and ecosystem players; innovative solutions for deploying open finance platforms; and a focus on developing talent through relevant training and certifications.

“Accenture has bolstered its open finance capabilities through a mix of acquisitions, talent investments, and development of accelerators,” said Pranati Dave, practice director, Everest Group. “Clients referenced Accenture’s strong open finance expertise and initiatives, as well as its wide partnership ecosystem and innovation labs, which have helped it earn recognition as a Leader.”

More information on the assessment can be found here.

Accenture has been positioned as a leader in the latest IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Salesforce Implementation Services 2022 Vendor Assessment (Doc #AP48916222e, November 2022) based on its current capabilities and future strategies. 

The report noted, “Accenture drives differentiation in the Salesforce services market on its strong advisory and design capabilities, technical talent base, and expertise in driving experience-led transformation initiatives across diverse industries in the Asia/Pacific region.”

The report states that “Accenture’s strong talent pool across the Asia/Pacific region, partnership maturity with Salesforce, expertise as a digital agency, and depth of industry solutions make it a good fit for large enterprises looking to reimagine CX and scale Salesforce-led front-office transformations across multiple geographies.”

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

Accenture has been named a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant report. Accenture is positioned highest on the ability to execute and completeness of vision in the inaugural report.

Accenture scored highest in all three Use Cases evaluated, which include Unique User Experience, Unique Operational Processes, and Unique Products.

The Gartner report evaluates 18 service providers’ ability to execute and completeness of vision. “Gartner defines the market for Custom Software Development services as development and iteration of custom applications and software products specifically for an organization to satisfy its unique business needs.”

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Accenture has been positioned within the Leaders category in the IDC MarketScape Report for Asia Pacific Professional Security Services Vendor Assessment (doc IDC #AP49101123e, October 2022) in both of IDC’s assessment categories: capabilities and strategies.

This assessment is based on a combination of user interviews, buyer surveys and the input of IDC experts in each market, and highlights Accenture’s unique end-to-end security capability offering as a key differentiator.

It notes that Accenture is one of the most comprehensive security service providers with a wide range of capabilities that span security strategy development, implementation, integration, testing, and security operations.

Also highlighted is Accenture’s end-to-end capabilities for the design and implementation of advanced OT and IoT cybersecurity technology deployments. Accenture’s customer-centric operating model and its close relationships with cloud hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google and SAP also contribute to their advantage and readiness to build and manage secure cloud solutions.

About IDC MarketScape

About IDC MarketScape: IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

Accenture has been named a Leader in the 2022 Everest Group PEAK Matrix® for System Integration (SI) Capabilities on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

For the second time, Accenture scored the highest ahead of all competitors in both Market Impact and Vision & Capability. Additionally, this year Accenture was named a Star Performer – a title given to providers that demonstrate the most improvement over time on the PEAK Matrix – indicating that Accenture’s leading position in the market has strengthened.

For this report, Everest Group assessed end-to-end AWS capabilities of 29 IT service providers, including consulting, infrastructure/design build, modernization and operations services.

The report details Accenture’s significant year-over-year growth in AWS cloud services revenue and large-scale engagements with end-to-end support for AWS. It further highlights Accenture’s strong investments in strengthening its strategic partnership with AWS, and the company’s focus on offering contextualized and verticalized cloud solutions on AWS. The report also notes that Accenture can help enterprises realize greater value from cloud adoption through its Cloud First operating model.

“With its market-leading AWS-specific business unit, the Accenture AWS Business Group, and investments in joint go-to-market and co-innovation initiatives, Accenture has built a robust AWS services portfolio. It is perceived as a credible partner for cloud consulting and transformation engagements with strong AWS + Pan-Amazon capabilities. Enterprise clients have appreciated the technical skillset of its talent and transformational experience for complex workloads. These factors have contributed to its positioning as a Leader on Everest Group’s System Integration Capabilities on AWS PEAK Matrix Assessment 2022,” said Mukesh Ranjan, vice president, Everest Group.

Accenture has been named a Leader in IT security services in North America and Europe in two new reports from analyst firm Everest Group.

In both reports — “Everest IT Security Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022 — North America” and “Everest IT Security Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022 — Europe” — Accenture is positioned as a Leader and scored the highest across both assessment dimensions: Vision & Capability; and Market Impact. Both reports note that clients have appreciated Accenture for its ability to deliver complex security engagements and its deep domain and technical expertise and see it as a strategic partner in security.

Accenture has been positioned ahead of all 27 providers assessed in the North America report, and ahead of all 28 providers assessed in Europe. with Everest Group highlighting: 

Kumar Avijit, practice director, Everest Group, said, “The key to successful delivery of IT security services is creating client contextualized roadmaps, instead of measuring everything by the same yardstick. Accenture’s emphasis on converged IT/OT security and expertise on new-age cybersecurity themes and in-house talent development enables it to deliver customized, innovative IT security services. Clients have lauded Accenture’s ability to position itself as a strategic partner with strong technical and domain capabilities showcased by its IT cybersecurity services talent. These factors have contributed to its positioning as a Leader on Everest Group’s IT Security Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022 — North America and Europe.”

Accenture has been named a Leader in the latest Forrester Research report on European managed security service (MSS) providers, which notes that Accenture sets itself apart from the rest of the market by the way in which it develops assets that are embedded in its services for the benefit of clients.

The report — "The Forrester Wave™: European Managed Security Service Providers, Q3 2022" — includes a comprehensive 39-criteria assessment of the top 10 cybersecurity consulting providers across three high-level categories: “Current Offering”; “Strategy”; and “Market Presence.” Client references and buyer feedback were also factored into each criterion evaluated in the report.

Accenture received the highest score in the Current Offering category among competitors evaluated, with the highest possible score in twelve criteria, including: data sovereignty and European service delivery; managed application security; business and technical value; product vision; execution roadmap; innovation roadmap; and partner ecosystem. 

The report says that:

• Accenture stands out for its vision roadmap, with several planned items focusing on emerging CISO [chief information service officer] needs for managed services providers. 
• Accenture also continues to set the standard for strong partnerships to drive unique technology and services IP.
• When noting how Accenture sets itself apart by developing assets that are embedded in services for clients, the report said that one particularly strong example of this was its Intelligent Application Security Platform (IASP), which delivers significant value for developers within its application security services.
• Reference customers praise the flexible personnel, highly competent technical staff, and strong partnership approach.
• Accenture is a good match for customers who want end-to-end security capabilities that deliver a wide array of managed services.

Accenture positioned as a Leader in both Market Impact and Vision & Capabilities

Accenture has been named a Leader in Everest Group’s report, “PEAK Matrix® for ServiceNow Services 2022.” This is the second consecutive year that Accenture has been named a Leader in this report.

The report used Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix framework to assess 25 established ServiceNow service providers. Accenture is positioned as Leader in both the Market Impact and Vision & Capabilities categories. The report qualifies that Leaders, “have invested heavily in solutions that expedite time to market” and that “buyers attest to their domain and technical expertise.”

An excerpt of this report can be viewed here.

The report highlights several strengths unique to Accenture, including:

• Accenture has one of the highest numbers of ServiceNow-certified talent and its total workforce of ServiceNow-ready professionals is higher than its peers
• It has invested heavily in building frameworks and accelerators, such as Telco, ACP4Gov, ASIM and Continuum Control Plane, which expedite time to market
• Clients have highlighted Accenture’s capabilities in Customer Service Management and UX Design as one of its key strengths

“Enterprises are deriving higher business value by reimagining processes and integrating ServiceNow with existing enterprise applications," said Abhishek Mundra, Practice Director, Everest Group. “Accenture has invested in building a robust suite of IP tools and industry-specific solutions for ServiceNow. The company has also expanded its capabilities in non-ITSM areas such as CSM and UX design, which is highly valued by its clients.”

Accenture has been named a Leader by global research firm IDC in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SAP Implementation Services 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US48395822, June 2022).

The report states that: “Accenture is one of the largest and highly experienced systems integrators in the SAP implementation services market globally. Accenture delivers services in most industries to help clients transform and unlock more value from innovation and new SAP solutions and technologies.”

This IDC MarketScape covers 16 vendors participating in the worldwide SAP implementation services market and is based on a comprehensive framework and set of parameters expected to be most conducive to success in providing SAP implementation services in both the short term and the long term.

IDC positioned Accenture as a Leader in this report, noting that, “Accenture has a longstanding partnership with SAP, including the co-development of sustainability, industry-specific and business process solutions on SAP S/4HANA®, SAP CX, and SAP Business Technology Platform. Accenture drives transformation for clients with innovation, methods, preconfigured solutions, and tools for increased automation and efficiency.”

The IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SAP Implementation Services 2022 Vendor Assessment is available for download here.

About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

Accenture has been named as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for SAP S/4HANA® Application Services, Worldwide” report. This is the fourth consecutive year that Accenture has been named a Leader in this report.

The Gartner report evaluates 20 service providers’ capabilities to deliver application services for SAP S/4HANA on a worldwide basis. It focuses on the full life cycle of SAP S/4HANA application services, spanning project-based assessment and implementation, through multiyear application evolution and management services.

Accenture is SAP’s leading business partner and the first partner to work with SAP from product innovation to development and delivery of SAP S/4HANA, as well as customized industry solutions. A complimentary copy of the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SAP S/4HANA Application Services, Worldwide report is available here.

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Accenture recognized as a global cybersecurity powerhouse putting customer-centricity and innovation at the forefront of its strategy

Accenture has been recognized as the No. 1 cybersecurity service provider overall in a new report from industry analyst firm HFS Research.

The report, “The HFS Top 10: Cybersecurity Service Providers, 2022,” assessed 15 service providers’ capabilities across a defined series of criteria to identify how well service providers help their enterprise clients effectively improve their cybersecurity posture.

Among Accenture’s strengths the report cites are its:

• Growth: The Accenture Security practice is growing at about 3x the rate of the market and competition and has grown by more than 70% over the past three years.
• Go-to-market offerings: The report notes Accenture’s wide range of offerings centered around cyber defense, applied cybersecurity services, and managed security services, as well as an investment strategy that includes acquisitions, ecosystem partnerships, and strategic investments in innovative start-up companies, security R&D and delivery excellence.
• Talent management: The report cites Accenture’s key talent-retention strategies of investment in continuous professional development and its upskilling programs. The report notes that “Accenture pays special attention to ensuring security practitioners are cross-skilled with industry knowledge and actively promotes various initiatives focused on inclusion and diversity in cybersecurity.”
• Outcomes: According to the report, “Accenture uses its proprietary business capability maturity models to help clients articulate business value, opportunities for improved security, and quantitative outcomes necessary to make the right investment and measure return.”

“Accenture has built deep expertise and capabilities across all areas of the cybersecurity value chain,” said Ralph Aboujaoude Diaz, practice leader, Digital Trust and Cybersecurity at HFS Research. “Accenture is putting client-centricity, partners’ ecosystem, and innovation at the forefront of its cybersecurity strategy.”

Accenture has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Global Adobe Services Partners, Q3 2022. The report identified, researched and evaluated the 10 most significant Adobe partners offering implementation services based on three categories: Current Offering, Strategy and Market Presence. 

According to the Forrester report, Accenture received the top scores in both the “Strategy” and “Current Offering” categories. The report states that “Accenture stands out for its comprehensive ability in Adobe transformation,” and that, “the firm has a strong vision to help clients on their Adobe transformation journeys, supported by deep commitment and investment in innovation as well as a solid partner ecosystem.” The Forrester report also notes that, “the centerpieces of Accenture’s roadmap include broadening and deepening its Adobe capabilities with industry-tailored solutions powered by Adobe, scaling Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and data-powered solutions, and capturing the midmarket in addition to its current focus on enterprises.”

The full Forrester Wave™: Global Adobe Services Partners, Q3 2022, can be accessed here.

For the fourth consecutive year, Accenture has been named a Leader in the Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Oracle Cloud Applications Services, Worldwide,” the global research and advisory firm’s annual assessment of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications service providers.

This Magic Quadrant assessed the relative positioning of 19 service providers based on completeness of vision and ability to execute worldwide in delivering the full life cycle of Oracle Cloud Application services.

According to Gartner, “Organizations are looking for a vendor that can support them throughout their cloud adoption journey — from designing the transformation, implementing the solution to ongoing support for their cloud environments. This demands excellent abilities to understand the client’s business requirements and to collaborate in an ongoing way. Vendors that can do both of these in addition to demonstrating excellence in technology enablement are those that are most successful in this market.”

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Accenture has been named a Leader in the inaugural report, the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Adobe Experience Cloud Professional Services 2022 Vendor Assessment (Doc # #US4754222, June 2022).

For this report, IDC assessed 17 Adobe Experience Cloud professional services providers through the IDC MarketScape model, providing a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the characteristics that highlight each vendor’s success in the marketplace. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive framework and set of parameters expected to be most conducive to success in providing cloud professional services in both the short term and the long term.

Accenture was recognized for Adobe-specific thought leadership, people quality and industry knowledge and expertise. The report notes that Accenture is a good choice for organizations “wanting complex business and technology transformation services from a tier 1 partner with some of the broadest and deepest capabilities available.”

“Accenture has an immense depth and breadth of resources globally, with a comprehensive range of Adobe specializations, and it brings its client deep industry expertise. Clients love the way Accenture combines ground-level technology skills with both strategic insight and the ability to drive business transformation. These factors have made Accenture a powerhouse in Adobe Experience Cloud-related professional services and positioned the company for even further growth moving forward,” said Douglas Hayward, research director for digital strategy and customer experience services at IDC. 

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

Accenture has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Oracle Cloud Apps Implementation Services Partners, Q2 2022 report, receiving the highest possible score in 19 out of 21 criteria.

The report, which assessed 11 Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications implementation service providers on criteria across current offering, strategy and market presence, noted that, “Accenture leads with a visionary strategy for Oracle customers. Accenture has unmatched depth and scale and also benefits from the firm’s broader ability to offer end-to-end services … Its vision centers on maintaining leadership by helping clients rapidly adapt to market trends and technologies, enabled through its asset library. Accenture’s innovation roadmap and talent strategy position it well to maintain this leadership.”

The report adds that, “[Accenture] consistently and aggressively invests in new areas and codifies best practices, evidenced by its continued success and growing portfolio of assets relevant to Oracle Cloud success within its myConcerto and myWizard platforms. Accenture is a clear choice for enterprises tackling the largest Oracle transformations — both in complexity and lofty transformation goals.”

The full Forrester Wave™: Oracle Cloud Apps Implementation Services Partners, Q2 2022 report, can be accessed here.

Accenture is recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: SAP® Implementation Services Partners, Q2, 2022. The report states that, “Accenture maintains leadership with a visionary strategy for SAP customers.”

The Forrester Wave report identified, researched and evaluated the 15 most significant SAP partners offering implementation services based on three categories: Current Offering, Strategy and Market Presence. Accenture was top-ranked in the report’s ‘Current Offering’ category, which includes criteria relevant to any transformative implementation program, including business consulting, implementation services, and accelerators and prebuilt IP.

Within its evaluation, the report reads, “Accenture has unmatched depth and scale in SAP and also benefits from the firm’s broader ability to offer end-to-end services. [Accenture is] in an elite set of SAP partners in terms of scale of resources and experience delivering large projects across the SAP portfolio — most notably SAP S/4HANA®. Accenture’s vision centers on maintaining leadership by taking a One Accenture approach to bring together functional and industry expertise into all client work.”

The report states, “Reference customers selected Accenture based on its experience delivering complex programs and said its focus on outcomes and delivery methods were key strengths. Accenture is a clear choice for enterprises tackling the largest SAP transformations — both in complexity and lofty transformation goals.”

The Forrester Wave™: SAP® Implementation Services Partners, Q2 2022 report is available here.

Accenture has been positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Cloud Professional Services 2022 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US48061322, April 2022).

The IDC MarketScape assessed the 2022 cloud professional services market through the IDC MarketScape model, providing a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the characteristics that highlight each vendor’s success in the marketplace. This evaluation is based on a comprehensive framework and set of parameters expected to be most conducive to success in providing cloud professional services in both the short term and the long term.

According to the report, “It is hard to pick out a singular strength beyond the fact that Accenture is strong in virtually everything IDC evaluated. Several buyers noted Accenture had done a fantastic job, often very quickly. One buyer, in the utilities sector, said that Accenture gave it the best education about the sector it had ever had. Referrals are another strong factor. While none of the cloud service providers like to state so publicly so as to maintain harmony with all their implementation partners, buyers shared examples where they were informed by a cloud service provider that Accenture was preferred among its partners.”

“Accenture — with its strong industry knowledge, industry cloud offers, and breadth of technology services that span from consulting all the way to managed services — can fulfill cloud technology implementation needs at a global scale,” said Gard Little, vice president of Global Services, Markets and Trends at IDC.

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

Accenture is ranked #1 overall in the recently released HFS Top 10: SAP S/4HANA® Services, 2022 report. This includes leading positions in Execution, Innovation, and HFS OneOffice™ alignment. 

Covering all aspects of the value chain, the report assesses 11 service providers’ ability to consult, migrate, implement, and manage SAP S/4HANA® software across industries. As part of the evaluation, HFS assessed each service provider’s ability to transform an enterprise’s core business system to achieve the desired outcome. Accenture’s approach also aligns with the HFS OneOffice vision for applied digital transformation. This vision represents a mindset shift to collaborative cross-functional enterprise operations powered by an integrated stack of emerging tech that complements core technologies, natively automates processes, enables employees and customers, and powers decisions while breaking down legacy silos in the process. 

“Accenture secured the number one position in our SAP S/4HANA Top 10 study,” said Don Ryan, chief strategy officer, HFS Research. “The company’s consulting and execution experience is one of the notable differentiators in the SAP S/4HANA services space. Accenture’s intelligent enterprise vision places the customer experience at the core of a more agile, connected, insight-driven human + machine experience and eliminates silos to achieve a unified experience. It aligns with the HFS OneOffice vision. Overall, Accenture has the right combination of execution and innovation capabilities to deliver at scale and continue to shine in this space.”

An excerpt of the HFS Research report is available here.

Accenture has been recognized as a Leader in enterprise blockchain services for the second consecutive time by industry analyst firm Everest Group.

The report, “Enterprise Blockchain Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022,” analyzed 23 blockchain service providers in global enterprise blockchain services, including blockchain ecosystem management services, application and business logic services, middleware services, protocol services, and infrastructure services.

According to the report, Accenture is positioned as a Leader in both Market Impact, which measures impact created in the market through market adoption, portfolio mix and value delivered to clients; and Vision & Capability, which measures a firm’s ability to deliver blockchain services successfully through roadmap and strategy, scope of services, innovation & investments, and delivery.

According to Everest Group, Accenture continues to demonstrate leadership in key areas of blockchain such as central bank digital currency (CBDC), decentralized finance, digital identity and supply chain solutions. In 2020, Accenture partnered with the Digital Dollar Foundation to form the Digital Dollar Project, a non-profit organization focused on advancing exploration of a United States CBDC, or “digital dollar.”

Ronak Doshi, a partner at Everest Group, said, “The frenzy of blockchain proof-of-concept launches and the debate on moving away from proof-of-concept to production has radically subsided in the last 18 months, as the industry made great progress on pragmatic blockchain use cases focused on immediate value generation potential. The market has shifted toward using a combination of emerging technologies, including distributed ledger technology, to build inter-enterprise and, in some cases, inter-industry networks. Accenture has an executive-level focus on building ecosystems and investing in accelerators, partnerships, and thought leadership assets to drive faster value realization for clients. Accenture’s focus on expanding its blockchain talent pool, its initiatives in key use cases, and its emphasis on exploring emerging themes such as CBDC, decentralized finance, and digital identity has led it to secure a Leader position on Everest Group’s Enterprise Blockchain Services PEAK Matrix® 2022.”

Accenture recognized for leveraging its full breadth and depth to deliver blockchain solutions at scale

Accenture has been recognized as the number one service provider overall for enterprise blockchain services in a recent report from industry analyst firm HFS Research.

The Report, HFS Top 10: Enterprise Blockchain Service Providers, 2021, assessed 12 leading blockchain services providers based on detailed discussions with their leadership teams, inputs from their enterprise clients, and analysis of thousands of blockchain engagements across industries worldwide.

Accenture ranked No. 1 overall as well as in four of the 12 evaluation criteria, including scale and growth, delivery footprint, ecosystem reach and OneOffice alignment.

“Accenture’s clients told us that their ability to bring cross-business processes to support their blockchain engagements was a key strength, demonstrating the positive impact of their operating model,” said Sam Duncan, Associate Practice Leader at HFS Research. “This, in combination with their ability to weave a catalogue of emerging technologies into their blockchain engagements, is why they are a leader in Enterprise Blockchain Services.” © 2021 HFS Research Ltd.

Accenture has been named a Leader in the inaugural Everest Group Cloud Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022 — North America and Everest Group Cloud Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2022 — Europe reports. 

According to Everest Group, Accenture is differentiated in overall market impact, driven by value delivered to clients based on customer feedback. Everest Group highlights that Accenture’s “enterprise clients have appreciated its ability to develop and proactively bring forward new and innovative solutions/IPs. As part of the  offering, Accenture has built a strong full-stack portfolio characterized by a convergence of themes such as software engineering, customer experience, and platform engineering into core cloud services.”

Accenture also stands out in both reports with top scores for overall vision and capability driven by the company’s innovation and investments along with its vision and strategy and scope of services.

On Accenture’s North America position, Everest Group Practice Director Mukesh Ranjan noted, “Accenture has built a strong cloud services portfolio with a focus on enabling digital transformation by leveraging the cloud. Accenture through its Cloud First organization continues to invest in IPs such as myNav and in co-developing pre-configured industry-specific cloud solutions enabling Accenture to offer a reduced time-to-market to enterprises. Enterprise clients have appreciated its ability to develop and proactively bring forward new and innovative solutions/IPs.”

On Accenture’s Europe position, Ranjan added, “Accenture through its Cloud First organization has built a strong cloud services portfolio that proactively addresses sustainability and sovereign cloud requirements of European enterprises. With its set of meaningful acquisitions, Accenture has created a differentiated portfolio for clients looking to engage in next-generation areas such as IoT, cloud security, and cloud-native. Enterprise clients have appreciated its domain expertise and ability to develop and proactively bring forward innovative solutions.”

A custom version of the North America report is available here and the Europe report is available here. 

Accenture has been named as a Leader in the Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Service Providers.”

The report underscores the pervasiveness of data and analytics across enterprises, noting that “Organizations are deploying D&A to support digital transformation and acceleration, and the use of D&A is increasingly pervasive across enterprises, fueling market growth. In the 2021 Gartner’s View from the Board of Directors survey, 69% of boards of directors said they had accelerated digital business initiatives in the wake of COVID-19.

In the same survey, these boards of directors placed analytics and AI as the No. 1 and No. 2 top game-changing technologies to emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis.” Among the 18 companies assessed, Gartner positioned Accenture highest and furthest in this Magic Quadrant for its ability to execute and completeness of vision in this market.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Service Providers, Worldwide, Jorgen Heizenberg, Gareth Herschel, Twiggy Lo, Shubhangi Vashishth, Ankush Jain. February 7, 2022

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Accenture has been positioned as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape analysis of worldwide incident readiness providers.

The report — “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Readiness Services 2021 Vendor Assessment” (Doc #US46741420, November 2021) — analyzes 14 service providers in worldwide incident readiness services, reviewing both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define current market demands and expected buyer needs.

The report shares examples of Accenture’s investment in incident readiness, including Accenture Labs’ development of the CyTwin cyber digital twin platform, which gathers information from a client network to build a virtual ‘twin’ of the environment and then helps predict possible paths that an attacker might take through the network. According to the report, “CyTwin enables clients to see what an attacker might do and consider the weighted probabilities of different paths to determine where to most effectively apply security investments.”

Christina Richmond, vice president of IDC’s security services research practice, said, “When it comes to combating cyber threats, businesses need to think about not only their investments in prevention but also their proactive approach, so they are ready to respond when attacks occur. Incident readiness service providers like Accenture have experience in investigations and deep knowledge in threat intelligence and they continue to innovate their approach to education and exercises that strengthen their clients’ cyber resiliency.”

More information about Accenture’s Incident Response Services and its position in the IDC MarketScape report can be found here.

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

Accenture has been positioned as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Salesforce Implementation Services 2021 Vendor Assessment (November 2021, IDC #US47073921) for the fifth time. 

“In a maturing and highly competitive market, Accenture remains differentiated in both its current offering and strategy for future growth,” said Ali Zaidi, research director, IDC. “As Salesforce keeps adding new solutions to its portfolio, the implementation of Salesforce-based cloud solutions is becoming ever more complex. Accenture possesses the solid industry and business process knowledge, along with the wide-ranging technical expertise needed to help clients achieve desired business outcomes."

Driven by the power of customer data, the report says that “Accenture reimagines human experiences to grow and transform its businesses. Clients use Accenture to solve complex challenges and accelerate their path to value. Accenture Salesforce Business Group brings expertise of their people across all of Accenture — strategy and consulting, interactive, technology, and operations — to deliver transformation for the company’s clients. As one of Salesforce’s global strategic partners for over a decade with 34,000+ Salesforce-skilled people and 40,000+ Salesforce certifications, Accenture helps drive innovation in Salesforce implementation initiatives for its customers.”

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Salesforce Implementation Services 2021 Vendor Assessment is available here.

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

Accenture has been recognized as the number one service provider for Pega services in a recent report from industry analyst firm HFS Research.

Accenture ranked #1 overall as well as in areas including market experience and growth, breadth of services and geographic capabilities, differentiated offerings, ability to deliver business transformation, and vision. Twelve leading service providers were assessed for the inaugural “HFS Top 10 Pega Services 2021” report.

Khalda de Sauza, research director at HFS Research, said, “Pega is one of Accenture’s top alliances in terms of strategic importance and revenue, and has won the Pega Partner of the Year award for nine consecutive years. Our report reflects this, showing that Accenture consistently leads the market in overall execution and innovation capabilities.”

Accenture has been named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Workday Implementation Partners, Q3 2021 report. Accenture received a differentiated rating, the highest score possible, in seven out of 10 criteria.

According to the report, which assessed eight providers, Accenture, “Leads the pack with breadth of capabilities and scale. Accenture has scale across all major areas of Workday services and is one of its key partners for Prism Analytics as well as Spend Management.”

The report also states that Accenture, “Is the best fit for companies with complex, global needs. Accenture thrives in large and complex transformations, including multi-pillar deals. Accenture’s reference customers praised Accenture for its experience and skills, in-region delivery, and its ability to push innovation and challenge existing ways of thinking.”

The Forrester New Wave™: Workday Implementation Partners, Q3 2021 report can be accessed here.

Accenture has been named a Leader among data management service providers in “The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Service Providers: Q4, 2021” report, which evaluated Accenture and 11 other leading vendors across 22 criteria spanning current offerings, strategy and market presence.

According to the report, “Accenture has superior DataOps and data engineering for outcomes at business speed.” It also notes, “Accenture scored high marks in critical evaluation criteria for data engineering, DataOps, data governance, and training and literacy. These competencies are rounded out in specific areas of data security and privacy, data quality, and the ability to impact business outcomes,” explaining that, “Accenture delivers an end-to-end offer backed by proven frameworks, business experts, and data experts to keep data aligned with business ambition.”

Additionally, “Client feedback backs up the assessment of [Accenture’s] superior data expertise, practices, and advanced data engineering skills…clients that need a strong delivery partner versed in a variety of analytic, operational, and digital use cases and deployments will get the data outcomes they seek.”

Accenture and Avanade have been jointly named a Leader in the inaugural Everest Group PEAK Matrix® for Microsoft Dynamics 365 2021 report.

Accenture and Avanade rated highly in both Market Impact and Vision & Capability. According to Everest Group, Accenture and Avanade are differentiated in its ability to deliver end-to-end industry and business transformation with Microsoft Dynamics 365. This is particularly true in the banking, financial services, insurance, manufacturing and retail industries and across finance, supply chain, sales, service, marketing and human resource functions.

"Accenture has invested in building a robust suite of IP tools and accelerators for Dynamics 365,” said Yugal Joshi, partner, Everest Group. “With its joint efforts with Microsoft, Avanade has emerged as a key delivery partner. Clients appreciate Accenture’s technical and domain expertise and relationship management. Taken together, these capabilities have helped position Accenture and Avanade as a Leader on Everest Group’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2021.”

The report assessed 18 service providers on advisory, consulting, implementation, and maintenance/support services for both cloud and on-premise Microsoft Dynamics 365 capabilities globally. The Everest Group PEAK Matrix® for Microsoft Dynamics 365 2021 report is available here.

Accenture has been recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SAP S/4HANA® Application Services, Worldwide. Accenture was also positioned as a Leader in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix for SAP S/4HANA Service Providers 2021.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for SAP S/4HANA Application Services, Worldwide evaluates 20 service providers’ capabilities to deliver SAP S/4HANA application assessment, implementation and management services on a worldwide basis. Accenture is positioned as a Leader, as well as furthest for Completeness of Vision. The report notes that Leaders, “have built a considerable S/4HANA track record and capabilities across multiple industries, geographies, deployment approaches or modules.”

The Everest Group PEAK Matrix for SAP S/4HANA Service Providers 2021 names Accenture as a Leader and positioned Accenture high in Market Impact. According to Everest Group, Accenture is clearly differentiated in overall Market Impact, and the company’s “technical prowess, domain expertise, and advisory capabilities are well-perceived by the market.” The report also notes Accenture’s “strong suite of IP tools/platforms/solutions to curate industry-specific solutions and accelerate time-to-market for its SAP S/4HANA clients.” The PEAK Matrix is a framework that provides an objective, data-driven and comparative assessment of 21 SAP S/4HANA service providers based on their absolute market success and delivery capability.

A copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SAP S/4HANA Application Services, Worldwide, is available here. An excerpt of the Everest Group PEAK Matrix is available here.

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Accenture has been named a “Leader” in Everest Group’s “PEAK Matrix® for Application Transformation Service Providers 2021” report.

According to Everest Group, Accenture is differentiated in its ability to deliver on large and complex application transformation programs, making it a valuable partner to enterprise clients. The report recognizes Accenture’s ability to create value leveraging its end-to-end offerings portfolio and identifies project management, client management and domain expertise as the company’s biggest strengths.

“To compete in a digital world, enterprises are looking to shed yesterday’s application with flexible and modular cloud-based applications while reimagining their processes to align with their cloud first strategy,” said Alisha Mittal, IT services practice director, Everest Group. “Accenture’s cloud-first approach to extending the life of legacy systems and transforming applications with new technologies has earned Accenture recognition as a Leader in the application transformation services providers market.”

Everest Group highlights the value Accenture delivers to clients via its “Digital Decoupling” technique, which focuses on incrementally building modernized components out of legacy workloads. The firm also praised Accenture’s heavy investments in building niche capabilities in areas such as product engineering, mainframe services and design.

A custom version of the “PEAK Matrix for Application Transformation Service Providers 2021” report is available here.

Accenture has been named a Leader among Salesforce consulting providers in “The Forrester Wave™: Salesforce Consulting Partners, Q2 2021” report. Accenture received top scores in the “Current Offering” and “Market Presence” categories.

According to the report, “Accenture is Salesforce’s largest partner, with more than 20,000 practitioners working on Salesforce projects and with deep experience across all major Salesforce Clouds.” It also notes, “Accenture stands out for its scale and ability to tackle complex transformation work,” and that “the provider has unparalleled breadth and depth of capabilities spanning technology, design, consulting, long-term operations, and skills, not only with Salesforce but also with the Salesforce ecosystem.”

The report evaluated Accenture and 12 other Salesforce service providers across 23 criteria including global resources; capabilities for specific Salesforce clouds such as Sales Cloud and Industry Clouds; capabilities for specific types of services including consulting; and ongoing support, and people and culture, with an emphasis on diversity and corporate social responsibility. Also examined were vision, execution and innovation roadmaps, number of clients, large enterprise projects, and Salesforce revenue.

Accenture has been named a Leader in the latest Forrester Research report on European cybersecurity consulting providers, which notes that Accenture, “dominates the field with its exceptional technology-driven offerings.”

The report — “The Forrester Wave™: European Cybersecurity Consulting Providers, Q3 2021”— focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of the 15 most significant cybersecurity consulting providers against a comprehensive set of 21 criteria, grouped into three high-level categories: “Current Offering”; “Strategy”; and “Market Presence.”

Also according to the report, Accenture “…dominates with exceptional technical IP, in what it creates itself and what it creates with partners” and “…goes beyond traditional partnerships and alliances via its co-investment model with strategic partners to develop joint solutions to market.” The report also states that reference customers highlighted Accenture’s industry context and knowledge, flexible staff, exceptional program and change management skills, and knowledge in operational technology as particular strengths.

More information on Accenture in “The Forrester Wave™: European Cybersecurity Consulting Providers, Q3 2021” report can be found here.  

Accenture has been recognized as the number one service provider for ServiceNow services in a recent report from industry analyst firm HFS Research.

Accenture ranked #1 overall as well as in seven of the 12 evaluation criteria, including scale and growth, strategy and vision, overall execution, innovation, verticalized solutions, differentiated IP and enterprise service management maturity.

The “HFS Top 10 ServiceNow Services” report assessed 16 ServiceNow service providers for their innovation and execution capabilities in ongoing third-party services across the ServiceNow services value chain.

“Accenture leads the market in scaling and innovating ServiceNow,” said Tom Reuner, senior vice president, HFS Research. “The formation of the Accenture ServiceNow Business Group, built on a team of certified experts and numerous acquisitions, has provided Accenture with the maturity to deliver global projects across the entire ServiceNow ecosystem.”