Technology Analyst Recognition

Accenture is positioned as the second largest security services provider globally for the second consecutive year. Among the top 10 providers, Accenture is the fastest growing with an 18.2% increase in revenue—almost double the overall market growth—according to Gartner's Market Share: Security Services, Worldwide, 2024 research (accessible to Gartner clients).

Gartner noted that the “Worldwide security services revenue totaled up to $77.1 billion in 2024, with a 9.9% year-over-year growth rate.” According to the report, Accenture had the highest revenue in the Security Professional Services sub-segment with $4.23B, growing 15.3% year-over-year. Accenture also had the highest revenue in the Managed Security Services sub-segment with $2.93B in revenue and a 26.5% growth rate in 2024.

Noteworthy highlights of Accenture Security’s investments from the past 12 months include:

• CyberArk Strengthens Identity Security for AI Agents with Accenture’s AI Refinery
  
  
• Accenture Federal Services Announces MxDR for Government to be Powered by Google SecOps, Enhancing Federal Cybersecurity
  
  
• Accenture and CrowdStrike Team to Transform Security Operations, Mitigating Cyber Threats and Reducing Costs with AI-native Solutions
  
  
• Verizon Announces Strategic Partnership with Accenture to Help Organizations Tackle Emerging Cybersecurity Threats
  
  
• Accenture Invests in QuSecure to Protect Against Future Quantum Threats with Crypto Agility
  
  
• Accenture Expands Generative AI-Powered Cybersecurity Services and Capabilities to Accelerate Clients’ Resilience and Reinvention

Gartner, Market Share: Security Services, Worldwide, 2024, Rahul Yadav, Shailendra Upadhyay, 25 April 2025

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Accenture is positioned as a Leader in the March 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Outsourced Digital Workplace Services for the second consecutive year. 

According to Gartner, “leaders deliver their service solutions skillfully, have a clear vision of the direction of the service market and are actively building and improving their competencies to sustain their leadership positions. The Leaders quadrant indicates the direction of the ODWS market. Leaders have demonstrated their expertise and track record in delivering ODWS globally and understand the requirements to successfully deliver these services. They have proven their Ability to Execute and their Completeness of Vision. “

At Accenture, we engage with our Digital Workplace clients to transform, deliver and manage a friction-free, and delightful experience for their employees around the service and support operations of their digital and physical workplaces. We create predictable, measurable, and reportable results that enable clients to deliver world-class services to their customers.

Accenture’s Digital Workplace offering helps clients adapt to a hybrid way of working by creating the spaces, collaboration and culture that puts people at the center of the organization, optimizes productivity and well-being, and drives sustainable business value for the company and those who work there. The offering encompasses Workplace, Workspace, and Workforce Services.

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Accenture is the highest-ranked vendor, positioned in the Market Maker category, in capioIT’s Salesforce Asia Pacific Systems Integration and Services Providers Capture Share Report for 2025.

According to capioIT’s research, Accenture leads in nine of 17 attributes. For five of these attributes—Certified Salesforce.com resources, Country Strength, Salesforce.com ecosystem partnership, Salesforce Platform Implementation, Strength of Brand, and Ability to Influence External Market—Accenture “stands alone at the top of the rankings. “

Some strengths that we believe contributed to this positioning include:

• Ability to leverage global scale and significant regional contributions to the Salesforce platform.
  
  
• Emphasis on maintaining ongoing relationships with Salesforce at both global and regional levels.
  
  
• Ability to capitalize on cross-platform leadership, including strong positions on platforms like SAP and AWS, which are vital components of the integrated Salesforce ecosystem.

Accenture and Salesforce partner to help businesses reinvent marketing, sales, commerce, and service by harnessing the power of data, AI, and intelligent agents. Combining Accenture’s industry expertise and global reach with Salesforce’s cutting-edge technology, we deliver personalized customer experiences, drive growth, and enhance enterprise value.

Accenture is positioned in the Leaders category and received the highest scores in both the Strategy and Current Offering categories in The Forrester Wave™: Application Modernization and Multicloud Managed Services, Q1 2025 Report. Link to the report (March 4, 2025)

Accenture believes the following factors, which are detailed in the report, contributed to its positioning:

• Within the strategy category, achieved the highest scores possible in the vision, innovation, partner ecosystem, supporting services and offerings, talent strategy, and global delivery strategy criteria.
  
  
• Balances technology and business value better than any other company in its vision.
  
  
• Delivers innovation through a mix of acquisitions and R&D investments, focusing on expanding genAI capabilities.
  
  
• Ensures a steady influx of new talent through annual investments in personnel development.
  
  
• Leads in forming partnerships, having established close relationships with hyperscalers.
  
  
• Achieves at least market parity, if not leadership, in scale across most categories of modernization and multicloud management.
  
  
• Sets the pace in AI/ML with significant investments.
  
  
• Offers strong multicloud managed services, holding all essential MSP credentials.

According to Forrester’s research, “Accenture is a good fit for a program-level initiative that requires both modernization and migration skills, including customers that need Accenture’s trademark balance of technical and business acumen.”

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Accenture is positioned in the Leaders category and received the highest score in the Current Offering category in The Forrester Wave™: SAP Services, Q1 2025 Report. (February 5, 2025)

Additionally, in the 2025 report, Accenture received above average customer feedback.

Accenture believes the following characteristics, which are detailed in the report, contributed to its position as a Leader:

• Offers strong business value tailored to clients' industries, an AI-enabled digital core, and addressing compressed transformation needs. The vision focuses on growth, leveraging the SAP S/4HANA cloud migration wave.
  
  
• Has an accelerated talent strategy, demonstrates global delivery excellence, and has a strong go-to-market rigor and board-to-field alignment as strategic enablers.
  
  
• Outperforms in innovation by creating new AI solutions focused on delivery, data, and performance improvements. The pricing strategy is on par with others evaluated.
  
  
• Known for its world-class business and strategy consulting, partnering with clients in SAP transformations. It has outstanding implementation, ongoing support, and change management services due to heavy investments in delivery methodology, tools, and assets.
  
  
• Collaborates with clients to define the best technology and infrastructure approach, and potential value with a great showcase of greenfield and brownfield migrations. Scored high in SAP product implementations, LOB solutions, and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) work.
  
  
• Outstanding industry intelligence, supported by decades of thought leadership.
  
  
• Notable assets like Enterprise Value Identification, Process Value Explorer, and GenWizard.

According to the report, reference customers “praised Accenture for its exceptional level of partnership, outstanding technical skills, and a huge network of resources globally. Clients often choose Accenture for its highly mature processes and industry best practices.”

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Accenture is positioned as a Leader and received the highest scores in both the Current Offering and Strategy categories in The Forrester Wave™: Oracle Services, Q1 2025 Report. (February 5, 2025)

Additionally, in the 2025 report, Accenture received above average customer feedback.

Accenture believes the following strengths, which are detailed in the report, contributed to its position as a Leader:

• Shines with a superior vision of helping its clients realize the full value of business transformation with its 360-degree value framework and earns top innovation scores for creating comprehensive genAI solutions that speed up delivery and transformation timelines.
  
  
• Emphasizes growth, learning, and innovation in its talent strategy. Recent acquisitions of Inspirage and Flo Group have strengthened supply chain capabilities.
  
  
• Scores high in global delivery and has a mature pricing model, maintaining an on-par partner ecosystem.
  
  
• Accenture has top-notch delivery excellence across the full range of Oracle Cloud Applications and excels in business and strategy consulting for Oracle Cloud journeys. Earned top scores for all offerings of OCI, Oracle Cloud ERP, HCM, SCM, CX, EPM, Fusion Analytics, and NetSuite.
  
  
• Offers outstanding outcome-based change management and a highly differentiated delivery methodology with Accenture IP.
  
  
• Leverages a comprehensive set of accelerators and assets, including Process Value Explorer, Reinvention Navigator, and GenWizard.

According to the report, reference customers praise “Accenture’s excellent business transformation abilities along with its outstanding technical implementations. They cite Accenture as a great partner, with exceptional Oracle talent, and one of the best for business and strategy consulting.”

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Accenture is positioned in the Leaders category and received the highest scores in both the Strategy and Offering categories in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Outsourcing Services, Q4 2024 Report. (December 11, 2024)

In the 2024 report, Accenture received above average customer feedback. We believe the following factors, which are detailed in the report, also contributed to Accenture’s positioning as a Leader:

• Within the strategy category, highest scores possible in the innovation, partner ecosystem, supporting services and offerings, pricing flexibility and transparency, and talent strategy criteria.
  
  
• Promoting the development of a strong digital core with a focus on cloud-first infrastructure, security, composable integration, and control plane, which helps large clients move past legacy issues and leverage the latest technologies and modern operations for growth and innovation.
  
  
• Notable depth and breadth of services across traditional and cloud services, with particular strength in organizational and technological integrations with clients.
  
  
• Well positioned to assist global organizations, with over 700,000 employees in over 120 countries, making it likely that a location and personnel will be nearby to assist clients anywhere.
  
  
• Ability to help clients push boundaries and can deliver with an industry-specific focus.

According to the report, reference customers pointed out Accenture’s skill in dealing with unknowns and “working outside of the box.” The report also states that “Accenture is a great fit for large and rapidly growing enterprises seeking support for complex IT infrastructure and to align their technology to strategic business objectives.”

Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. For more information, read about Forrester’s objectivity here.

Accenture is positioned as a Leader for both Capabilities and Strategies in the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Salesforce Implementation Services 2024-2025 Vendor Assessment. (November 2024, IDC #AP51540024).

This IDC MarketScape report evaluates 12 Salesforce Implementation services providers in Asia Pacific based on their capabilities around design, build, and integrate functions of the design–build–run function chain.

Key strengths noted for Accenture by the IDC MarketScape include:

• “Large talent pool. Accenture had a large number of skilled resources dedicated to Salesforce implementation services with over 12,000 practitioners working from various locations in Asia/Pacific. Accenture also showcased a strong certified talent base across core Salesforce products and MuleSoft. Currently, Accenture possesses over 41,700 Salesforce certifications across solution areas.”
  
  
• “Data-driven experiences. Accenture has placed data architecture readiness at the core of its efforts to prepare organizations to scale personalized journeys for their end customers. Accenture has strong experience in leveraging Salesforce data solutions to enhance its clients' CX initiatives. Recently Accenture launched Personalized Experiences on Salesforce solution that leverages Salesforce data and AI capabilities to help organizations gain a holistic view of their customers and drive tailored experiences across channels.”
  
  
• “Industrialized delivery. Accenture leverages its suite of intellectual property (IP) assets and accelerators to drive industrialization in Salesforce service delivery. This approach has helped Accenture ensure high quality, speed, and predictability throughout its implementation projects.”
   

Why Accenture was recognized

"Accenture's strong talent pool across the Asia/Pacific region, thought leadership around data architecture readiness, expertise as a digital agency, and depth of functional expertise and industry solutions make it a good fit for large enterprises looking to reimagine CX and scale Salesforce-led transformations across multiple geographies," states the IDC MarketScape report.

About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’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 technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

Everest Group has positioned Accenture as the highest Leader on both the Market Impact axis and the Vision and Capability axis in its Data and Analytics (D&A) PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024* Accenture is also a Star Performer in this report. Everest Group Data and Analytics (D&A) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024.

Everest Group evaluated 27 D&A service providers for this competitive report. “Accenture’s innovation-led approach and extensive talent investments allows it to deliver value to enterprises in the D&A space” said Vishal Gupta, Partner, Everest Group. “Its ability to harness emerging technologies, alongside industry-specific expertise and a strong tech partnership ecosystem, makes it a preferred partner for enterprise clients. For the same reasons, Accenture has emerged as a Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group’s Data & Analytics (D&A) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024.”

Specific factors leading to this recognition include:

• Innovation-led approach: Accenture offers end-to-end services with a continuous focus on emerging D&A demand themes. For instance, it has infused the Accenture Insights Platform in its AI navigator to create synergies in the complementary offerings. Additionally, it has also launched solutions which use semantic search and knowledge graphs for data analysis.

• Target M&A strategy to build industrial assets: Accenture focuses on building deep industry-specific expertise and IP through inorganic investments. For instance, it acquired Partners in Performance to strengthen energy and utilities and public sector offerings and Parsionate to build data capabilities in the retail sector.

• Extensive talent investments: It has significantly increased its data and AI talent through multiple acquisitions. It has acquired Udacity and launched LearnVantage gen AI learning platform to enhance skilling and training for Accenture clients.

The leaders in this report have demonstrated a clear vision centered on delivering business outcomes through D&A services for their clients. They are also leading the way in innovation, driving change through thought leadership, partnerships, and significant internal investments in emerging areas like AI and generative AI-driven data modernization, modern data platforms, and data governance.

*The Market Impact axis measures market adoption, portfolio mix, and value delivered; while the Vision a Capability axis measures vision and strategy, scope of services offered, innovation and investments, and delivery footprint.

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Accenture has been named the highest Leader on both the Market Impact axis and the Vision and Capability axis in its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024.* Accenture is also a Star Performer in this report. Everest Group Artificial Intelligence (Al) and Generative Al Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024.

Everest Group assessed 30 AI and generative AI service providers for this competitive report. “Accenture’s ability to integrate advanced AI methodologies with proven project management and design expertise makes it a trusted partner for enterprise clients on this journey," says Vishal Gupta, Partner, Everest Group. "Its robust technology partnerships, significant investments in responsible AI, and continued focus on developing next-gen AI assets such as AI Refinery have positioned it as a Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024.”

Key strengths leading to Accenture’s positioning include:

• Broad-ranging talent investments: Accenture’s acquisition of Udacity. Its clear articulation of AI roles, and its partner certifications have highlighted its focus on talent investments. Clients have also appreciated its deep technical expertise.

• Strong investment in AI capability building: Accenture has invested in its AI Navigator platform to enable AI strategy and deliver with pre-built solutions. It has also made acquisition such as Intellera Consulting and OnProcess Technology to accelerate capability building and has invested in an extensive partner ecosystem.

• Considerable Responsible AI (RAI) investments: Accenture has made dedicated people and technology investments focused on RAI. Its dedicated platform covers RAI end-to-end, from industry-specific maturity assessment and risk analysis to providing tools to mitigate and monitor risk.

The Leaders in this evaluation have a strong vision for achieving business outcomes for their clients through AI services. This vision includes a focus on intellectual property development, high-caliber talent, robust partnerships, and outcome-driven commercial models. Additionally, Leaders have created integrated platforms, products, and use case libraries, all supported by comprehensive AI governance, to help clients transition from initial experimentation to the successful scaling of AI projects.

*The Market Impact axis measures market adoption, portfolio mix, and value delivered; while the Vision a Capability axis measures vision and strategy, scope of services offered, innovation and investments, and delivery footprint.

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Licensed extracts taken from Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® Reports, may be used by licensed third parties for use in their own marketing and promotional activities and collateral. Selected extracts from Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® reports do not necessarily provide the full context of our research and analysis.  All research and analysis conducted by Everest Group’s analysts and included in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® reports is independent and no organization has paid a fee to be featured or to influence their ranking.  To access the complete research and to learn more about our methodology, please visit Everest Group PEAK Matrix® Reports.

Accenture is positioned as a Leader for both Capabilities and Strategies in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Security Services in the AI Era 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment. (November 2024, IDC #US52048124)

This IDC MarketScape report analyzes 21 global cloud security service providers in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). It evaluates competencies in cloud security strategies, managed cloud security services, embedding security into cloud transformations, utilizing AI for advanced security measures, and ensuring cloud security compliance.

The report states that “The value that Accenture cloud security services aim to unlock for clients includes two main aspects: secure outcomes to achieve a more secure environment post-transformation compared with their previous on-premises setups and accelerating transformations that accelerate the overall journey and enable clients to realize the benefits of cloud adoption more quickly.”

The report goes on to say that “Accenture’s approach is ensuring security throughout the client’s transformation, which is crucial to both the process and the client’s outcome.”

Key factors contributing to Accenture’s position in the IDC MarketScape include:

• “Broad and deep capabilities: Accenture has an extensive security practice, with 22,000 security professionals, including over 3,000 focused on cloud security. Its capabilities are supported by extensive consulting and IT services, including a robust set of supporting assets and tools.”

• “Experience and expertise: According to clients’ feedback, Accenture’s team is highly experienced, with specific commendations for the quality of people, stable culture, and value creation. Accenture’s methodologies are well regarded, with high marks for translating blueprints and methodologies to client-specific industries.”

• “Programmatic innovation: Accenture’s approach to AI/GenAI is pragmatic. While Akasha presents great innovation and application of GenAI for security, Accenture believes not everything needs to be AI driven. Accenture scrutinizes AI use cases via a thorough evaluation process and focuses on those that can save time and make a significant impact.”

• “Comprehensive cloud services and industry-specific offerings: Accenture Cloud First initiative provides a full stack of cloud services, helping clients migrate data and applications, and then move and operate their business in the cloud. A key differentiator is its industry-specific cloud offerings, tailored to meet the unique needs of various sectors such as healthcare and telecommunications. These offerings ensure compliance with industry regulations and provide relevant capabilities.”

Highlighting its commitment to ensuring secure environments for clients, Accenture recently announced new services and capabilities designed to reinvent business and cyber resilience through the power of Gen AI, deepfake protection and quantum-safe data security solutions to help clients across industries become cyber-resilient organizations: Accenture Expands Generative AI-Powered Cybersecurity Services and Capabilities to Accelerate Clients’ Resilience and Reinvention

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*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. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles.

Accenture is positioned as a Leader for both Capabilities and Strategies in the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Managed Cloud Services 2024-2025 Vendor Assessment. (November 2024, IDC #AP51571124)

This research effort evaluated 18 managed cloud service providers in the Asia/Pacific region. The report highlights that “Accenture’s ‘Run to New’ model for transformational managed cloud services defines detailed journey paths for evolutionary and progressive transformation of customers’ cloud operations in alignment with key business priorities and objectives for enterprise transformation and business reinvention.”

This IDC MarketScape report also states that Accenture’s reference customers “commended the vendor's mix of global delivery model and local capabilities, ability to effectively support a diversity of hyperscalers and cloud environments, improve clients' business agility, and handle changes in project scope.”

Other key factors contributing to our position in the IDC MarketScape include:

• “Accenture boasts a strong slate of assets (tools, platforms, methodologies, frameworks, etc.), both proprietary as well as codeveloped with its ecosystem partners, that allows it to effectively service a wide variety of operational and functional/vertical requirements across complex cloud environments. This is reflected in robust customer feedback as well.”

• “Accenture has also continued its investment in meaningful acquisitions, both niche and large, that strengthen its portfolio or bolster geographic presence. Some of the key ones relevant to Accenture's delivery of managed cloud services include Bourne Digital (SAP Digital Design), Navisite (infra engineering for GenAI in industry), Openstream (cloud and digital engineering, Japan), Climb (IT management and ops, Japan), and Solnet (cloud and infra engineering, New Zealand).”

• “Accenture has deep partnerships in the cloud space through dedicated Accenture Business Groups, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, IBM/Red Hat, NVIDIA, Snowflake, Databricks, ServiceNow, Alibaba Cloud, among others.”

Per the report, organizations should consider Accenture when they are “looking for a proven cloud operations transformation partner with the right technology assets, technical expertise, and delivery capabilities to help transform your large, complex IT estate into value-focused, continuously optimized cloud operations.”

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*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. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles.

Everest Group has named Accenture as a Leader in its Cybersecurity Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024 – Europe.

According to Everest Group's comprehensive evaluation, Accenture was positioned as the highest Leader for both Market Impact and Vision & Capability among the 28 European security service providers assessed.

Everest Group highlighted several key Accenture strengths, including:

• Accenture’s mySecurity platform for threat detection and response along with MxDR embedded with AI assisted SOC enables it to provide comprehensive and cost-optimized cybersecurity services to clients.

• Accenture’s ability to interpret new regulations and transform business requirements into technical controls using gen AI.

• IP-backed services that deliver value realization and ROI on cybersecurity investments.

• IP Global Security Benchmark for Financial Services clients.

Accenture’s positioning on this PEAK Matrix is a testament to its focus on innovation and next gen cybersecurity technologies for clients in Europe. According to Kumar Avijit, Vice President at Everest Group, “Accenture has prioritized IP-backed cybersecurity services and strengthened its asset-led offerings within the Accenture mySecurity platform to drive faster value realization and ROI on clients’ cybersecurity investments. Moreover, its verticalized cybersecurity services further differentiate Accenture in the market, catering specifically to industry-specific requirements. These combined strengths have positioned Accenture as a Leader in Everest Group's Cybersecurity Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment – Europe 2024."

According to IDC’s analysis and customer feedback, Accenture is a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Managed Security Services 2024 Vendor Assessment. (September 2024, IDC #AP51571224).

Accenture is positioned as a Leader for both “Strategies” and “Capabilities” * in this IDC MarketScape, which evaluated 22 vendors that provide managed security services (MSS) within the highly competitive and maturing Asia/Pacific market. 

The report highlighted that, “Accenture's approach to AI and generative AI (GenAI) is a cornerstone of its innovation strategy, with these technologies deeply embedded in its MSS offerings, driving enhancements in areas, such as security operations center (SOC), threat detection, and incident response.”

Other strengths highlighted in the report include:

“Clients value Accenture for its comprehensive MSS, including MDR, SIEM, and incident management solutions. Accenture's global reach and flexibility enable tailored, scalable security offerings that meet the diverse needs of multinational organizations. Clients appreciate Accenture's speed and adaptability in delivering effective threat detection and response, supported by innovative technologies, such as Google Chronicle and AI-powered tools. Additionally, Accenture's unique pricing model provides cost-effective and predictable cybersecurity solutions, making it a trusted partner in managing complex security.” Per the report, “Enterprises should consider Accenture for their MSS when seeking a globally unified, comprehensive cybersecurity solution that leverages Accenture's extensive presence and expertise across the Asia/Pacific region.”

Accenture is positioned as a Leader in the October 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Network Services.

Accenture is recognized based on its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute in the Magic Quadrant report, which assessed 17 globally capable providers of remote service management functions for the network and security operations of enterprise networks.

According to Gartner, a provider in the Leaders quadrant demonstrates the ability to fulfill a broad variety of customer requirements through the breadth of its MNS offerings. Leaders have the ability to shape the market and provide complete and differentiating services, as well as global service and support. Leaders maintain strong relationships with their channels and customer and have no obvious gaps in their portfolios.

Accenture’s Managed Network Services help clients modernize and move towards autonomous networks through radical automation, AI/gen AI, re-tooling and business process optimization, for greater efficiency, agility and reliability.

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In the IDC MarketScape: European Managed Detection and Response Services 2024 Vendor Assessment, Accenture is positioned as a Leader for both “Strategies” and “Capabilities”. * The IDC MarketScape study evaluated 17 service providers in the European MDR services market. IDC MarketScape: European Managed Detection and Response Services 2024 Vendor Assessment (September 2024, IDC #EUR151172124)

The report noted that Accenture “has been providing some form of detection and response services for more than 20 years and has 1,300 employees in Europe involved in detection and response roles. Accenture provides cybersecurity services globally, with an in-depth presence in Europe, working across eight languages.”

Other Accenture strengths cited include:

• Tailored services: Accenture brings significant industry and historical experience to tailor its offering and offers prescriptive guidance to tailor its services to clients' needs. Its scale means it can adapt where the service is delivered from, for example, because of data sovereignty, geopolitical, or support requirements, which helps it align with a greater number of client objectives.

• Strong Partnerships: Accenture possesses a high number of strong vendor partnerships, from cloud hyperscalers to security vendors, as well as a portfolio from which it can pull to support different client needs. This approach can reduce the risk of vendor lock-in to organizations.

• Customizable content library: It has built a large content library, consisting of detection use cases, playbooks, threat hunting models, reports, and dashboards, which can be used from the start of service. All content can then be customized based on clients' needs, applications, and processes.

• Thought leadership: Accenture produces considerable volumes of informed and relevant thought leadership, which is likely to increase consideration of its services.

• Talent focus: Accenture was one of the few service providers to include an HR leader in its briefing for this IDC MarketScape, which underlines the importance of its people-led approach and its focus on diverse talent retention.

The report also noted, “Due to the breadth of its portfolio, Accenture is well placed to support clients with needs covering adjacent business issues such as crisis management, cloud, AI, technology strategy, supply chain considerations, talent, and broader technology transformation alongside cybersecurity.”.

More information on the assessment can be found here.

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*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. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles.