Using IT Systems to achieve High Performance

Globalization, merger and acquisitions and the drive for greater efficiencies are putting increased pressure on organizations to use their IT systems to achieve high performance. To address the complexity of aligning and integrating IT systems to support business imperatives, we believe that a technology architecture foundation is more critical than ever.
Accenture applies innovative approaches to using new and proven technologies to architect solutions that enable transformational change. It is leading the way in emerging technological concepts such as Open Source, Web 2.0 and Software as a Service.
Open Source
The Open Source movement is changing how organizations use software, and is rapidly gaining traction around the globe. Enterprises can benefit from open source because it provides a cost-efficient, high-quality, licensed software model to its global community of subscribers along with a proven set of practices that help to increase the quality and consistency of software solutions and the efficiency by which they are delivered. Accenture is a leader in helping organizations apply open source in an enterprise-wide environment. Accenture collaborated with Interface21 to create Spring Batch, an open-source framework for developing enterprise batch applications. This announcement highlights Accenture’s involvement in open-source software communities to promote standardization of software processing approaches, frameworks and tools for enterprise users.
Web 2.0
Innovative companies are beginning to develop strategies on how to combine SOA with Web 2.0 to boost productivity through collaboration and deliver more user-friendly applications. Accenture can help you understand how Rich Internet Content, social networking and mashups (to name a few) are changing how society works—and how your business can take advantage of these powerful tools.
Software as a Service
Software as a Service (SaaS) is emerging as a strong alternative to traditionally licensed software enabling new business models to buy and use software. Now, software is no longer a product to buy, but itself a service to use to deliver other services. Accenture believes that SaaS is becoming a real option for companies driven by the evolution of standards, progress in interoperability, the commoditization of IT infrastructure and software as well as developments of Web 2.0 techniques and open source software now being “enterprise grade”.
From trend to business advantage
These trends will increasingly impact the development of technology architectures, making it more critical than ever to align business imperatives with IT today. Effectively designed technology architectures enable IT systems to be more adaptable, predictable and easier to maintain while providing the foundation for organizations to introduce new business processes and services.Accenture, driven by business imperatives, applies its deep technology and industry-specific IT architecture experience and offers business relevant and highly implementable technology architectures that help realize business agility and competitive advantage for our clients to achieve high performance.