A Buyers’ Guide to Accenture

WHAT YOU’LL KNOW AFTER READING

This is a comprehensive buyer-focused analysis of Accenture. This guide will enable buyers of outsourcing services to make better-informed sourcing decisions to not only outsource specific services but future-proof their organization in the context of the As-a-Service Economy.

WHAT THIS BUYERS’ GUIDE COVERS

The HfS Buyers’ Guide offers a view of the outsourcing and technology services capabilities of Accenture. It includes:

• Strategy, strengths, and weaknesses
• Industry and horizontal offerings
• Financials
• Blueprint performance:
• Blueprints covered from 2014 to 2017
• Location Capabilities
• Tools and Methodologies Used

KEY SERVICE PROVIDER DYNAMICS

• Accenture is a global professional services organization headquartered in Dublin, Ireland providing strategy, consulting, SaaS, ITO, and BPO.
• Accenture’s consulting and software integration (SI) remain its standout services. The service provider is widely considered one of the deepest and broadest partner with a number of software houses including Salesforce and Workday.
• The service provider has developed a market-wide reputation for delivering contracts on time and on budget and is aggressively results driven in its service approach.
• Accenture is much more strategic, as opposed to opportunistic, in the way it approaches contracts and has at times turned down contracts if it does not see a way to partner strategically with a client.

WHO SHOULD READ THIS REPORT

• Sourcing Managers
• Procurement Professionals
• Buyer Department Heads
• Outsourcing Advisors
• Knowledge Analysts