Accenture began as a consulting division of Arthur Andersen in the 1950s and became independent in 2000. It provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services. Its domains include strategy, consulting, interactive, technology and operations. It offers products and platforms for software engineering, and services like core platform engineering and platform enablement.

1. Industry Visit and its Report (CT2310) Presentation
on
“Name of Industry”
Presented By
Aman C. Kapse
84, Section-A, Semester-V
Industry Mentor
(Vaishnavi Kapse, Accenture, Associate Software Engineer)
Month, 2021-22
Department of Computer Technology
Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur
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2. Company History:
• Accenture began as the business and technology consulting division of accounting
firm Arthur Andersen in the early 1950s.
• In 1989, Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting became separate units
of Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative (AWSC).
• Throughout the 1990s, there was increasing tension between Andersen Consulting
and Arthur Andersen.
• In August 2000, as a result of the conclusion of arbitration with the International
Chamber of Commerce, Andersen Consulting broke all contractual ties with AWSC
and Arthur Andersen. As part of the arbitration settlement, Andersen Consulting paid
the sum held in escrow (then $1.2 billion) to Arthur Andersen, and was required to
change its name, resulting in the entity being renamed Accenture.

3. • On 1 January 2001, Andersen Consulting adopted its current name, "Accenture". The
word "Accenture" is derived from "Accent on the future".
• In October 2002, the Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) identified
Accenture as one of four publicly traded federal contractors that were incorporated in
a tax haven
Accenture's banner hanging on the New York Stock Exchange Building for its initial public
offering on 19 July 2001.

4. • On 7 January 2020, news sources reported that Accenture had agreed to
acquire Symantec's 300-person cybersecurity services division from Broadcom.
• In February 2020, Accenture announced that it plans to shut down its media auditing
by the end of August.
• In May 2020, Accenture announced that it had acquired Calisto Integration, a Canada-
based provider of consulting and technology services and Byte Prophecy,
an Ahmedabad-based data analytics company.
• In September 2020, Accenture committed $3 billion and created a division called
Accenture Cloud First.

5. • On 1 February 2021, Accenture acquired Imaginea Technologies, a cloud-native
and agile development company.
• On 16 February 2021, Accenture acquired Infinity Works. This acquisition also
bolsters the Accenture Cloud First division.
• On 22 April 2021, Accenture acquired Cygni, a cloud-native, full-stack development
company.
• On 22 August 2021, Accenture acquired Trivadis AG, an IT services provider
specializing in platforms and solutions that enable highly automated provisioning and
innovative use of data.
Accenture office at Tech Square in Atlanta

6. Introduction:
• There purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. They
embrace the power of change to create long-lasting value in every direction for our
clients, people and communities.
• Ethics, human rights and strong corporate governance are key drivers of there business
strategy. People live there core values, using there governance structure and Code of
Business Ethics to guide them.
• By scaling AI, analytics and automation, they can empower people and processes
responsibly. And they continually consider and monitor the unintended consequences
of AI and related technologies—it’s one of there highest Environmental, Social and
Governance (ESG) priorities.

7. Domain of the Industry:
 Accenture Strategy provides business strategy, technology strategy and
operations strategy services.

8. • Accenture Consulting provides technology, business and management consulting.

9. • Accenture Interactive (formerly Digital) provides digital
marketing, analytics and mobility services.

10. • Accenture Technology focuses on technology software, implementation, delivery,
and research & development, including its Technology Labs for emerging
technologies.

11. • Accenture Operations focuses on an "as-a-service" model of service delivery. This
includes business process outsourcing, IT services, cloud services, managed
operations and security.

12. Products and Platforms:
• Accenture's Product and Platform Engineering Services team helps clients navigate
through the new wave of platforms.
• With more than three decades of experience, there deep engineering-skilled workforce
of over 8,000 professionals has grown out of the development of our own
commercially-available software and platforms.
• They have expertise across more than 40 industries and all business functions,
delivering transformational outcomes for a demanding, new digital world, and
continuing to keep pace with ever-evolving customer needs.
• Traditionally, the technology infrastructure used by a company for building a series of
products for its users was called a platform. The beneficiaries were often restricted
within the product or service to fulfill a task.
• However, the evolution of technology has led to a proliferation of innovative business
models and cross-industry vertical partnerships, which has brought about a complete
evolution in platform thinking.

13. Services:
• Core platform engineering
Shift from a product to a platform mentality by architecting and developing an API and ecosystem strategy for a
scalable and future-ready platform.
• Software product engineering
Architect and manage the development lifecycle for the base product—from roadmap development, to build, test,
deploy, sustain and support—at pace.
• Platform enablement
Promote partner ecosystems to maximize platform adoption and achieve the revenue uplift from platform use.
• Device engineering
Design and develop software that runs the device, including silicon, appliance and embedded devices to maximize
performance.

14. Engineering compute optimization
A unique solution to increase utilization by real time scoring of jobs, using AI/ML through planning and intelligent
dashboards.
Quality engineering as a platform
A unified software infrastructure to support seamless multiple hardware/software platform development and testing
in a CI/CD framework.
Product sustenance and innovation
End-of-the-life products engineering and sustenance can help clients to drive innovation, efficiency and cost
savings.
Platform-in-a-box
A preconfigured solution for deploying a platform for clients quickly (ready for use in minutes).

15. References:
https://www.accenture.com/sk-en/case-studies/about/accenture-covid-response
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
https://www.accenture.com/in-en/accenture-timeline
https://www.accenture.com/in-en