All Research Sponsored By:Accenture

Integrating Multiple SaaS Platforms and Instances
EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, we explore the key challenges of integrating SaaS, including multiple instances of the same SaaS platform within a single company. Discover essential tips for migrating to a hybrid cloud architecture from legacy, on-premise systems and learn how API-led connectivity can aid in multiple SaaS integration.
Posted: 15 Nov 2016 | Published: 09 Nov 2016


Words to Go: Google Big Data Analytics
EGUIDE: In this expert guide, access a breakdown of the offerings on Google's cloud platform and big data services, including storage and databases, networking and machine learning, tools for management, and more. Learn how to successfully navigate your way around Google's big data analytics services in the cloud.
Posted: 16 Aug 2016 | Published: 01 Aug 2016


AWS vs. Azure vs. Google: A Close Race in Big Data
EGUIDE: Discover a vendor comparison between AWS, Azure, and Google's big data services that can simplify your cloud provider search process. See how the three differ in terms of performance, ease-of-use, and business intelligence.
Posted: 01 Aug 2016 | Published: 01 Aug 2016


Cloud Brings Power to Collaboration Tools
EGUIDE: In part one of this two-part e-guide, Executive Editor Lauren Horowitz discusses the viability of Microsoft's partnership with Dropbox for secure, integrated enterprise content management. In part two, Shawn Shell of Hitachi Consulting identifies the key features of any cloud-based collaboration tool worth your while.
Posted: 09 Mar 2016 | Published: 02 Mar 2016


Choose an Enterprise Cloud App Suite and Pull Off a Successful Migration
EGUIDE: In this expert guide, Tom Nolle, data communications expert with 33 years of experience, explains why companies migrating to Microsoft Office 365 need to plan, pilot-test and verify at every step. Plus, Google Apps and Office 365 are evaluated (side-by-side) in terms of features, functionalities and cost.
Posted: 09 Mar 2016 | Published: 03 Mar 2016


Significant and Sustained: Cutting Costs While Achieving Better Performance
BROCHURE: The current economic downturn requires a strategic approach to cutting IT costs, high-performance businesses successfully reduce overall costs sharply and for the long term, shifting spend toward IT capability and business growth.
Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009


Global Delivery: A Course to High Performance in a Multi-Polar World
WHITE PAPER: To fully exploit the opportunities offered by the multi-polar world, multinationals and public sector organizations must successfully create a global delivery strategy, and tap into specialized industry.
Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009


Business Process-Centric Information Technology: Aligning Business and Technology for High Performance
WHITE PAPER: Process-centric IT is, first and foremost, a way for the IT organization to build applications that will deliver greater flexibility and agility to the business-enabling high performance.
Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009


Optimizing the Business Value of IT: How IT Investment Portfolio Management Helps Drive High Performance
WHITE PAPER: Accenture has developed the Investment Portfolio Management Framework, a diagnostic model to help CIOs and top business executives align IT investments with the business needs and improve the management of limited IT resources.
Posted: 27 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008


New Growth from Enterprise Systems: Achieving High Performance through Distinctive Capabilities
BROCHURE: New Accenture research unequivocally shows that successful implementations of enterprise systems drive corporate financial performance.
Posted: 27 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006


Using Enterprise Systems to Gain Uncommon competitive Advantage
WHITE PAPER: Enterprise systems can lead to high performance in terms of differentiated customer response, new market discovery and development, and even the rapid reconfiguration of fundamental business processes.
Posted: 27 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007


Mastering High Performance through Data Management for Consumer Goods Companies
BROCHURE: As partners in some countries join to collaborate in a multi-polar world, the amount of data increases and the chances for error balloon, master data management helps bring continued high performance in the demanding consumer-goods market.
Posted: 26 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007


Holistic Master Data Management Solutions and Services: Establishing the Foundation for Increasing Business Value
WHITE PAPER: Master data management solutions helps organizations maximize the value of postmerger integrations, manage the product lifecycle, meet regulatory requirements and improve the effectiveness of transactional and reporting systems.
Posted: 26 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007


Business Intelligence Services and Solutions
SOFTWARE LISTING: Accenture brings together a deep understanding of the business and technology dimensions of an organization to harness information to improve decision-making, financial management, regulatory compliance and customer service.
Posted: 26 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008


Data Management & Architecture
SOFTWARE LISTING: Accenture's Data Management & Architecture group addresses how an organization manages data across its entire lifecycle.
Posted: 26 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008


Collaborative and Comprehensive: A Bold New Look for Global Sourcing
WHITE PAPER: This paper explores challenges and opportunities inherent in the global sourcing movement and provides at least five capabilities to be mastered if an organization is to achieve world-class status in the sourcing approaches and management techniques.
Posted: 26 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007


Three Keys to Effective Service-oriented Architecture Governance
WHITE PAPER: While most leading companies' IT organizations are well on the way to adopting service-oriented architecture capabilities, many find their progress slowed by questions about who owns business services.
Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

TOPICS:  IT Governance

Accenture CIO Survey: Cultivating High Performance Through Information Management
WHITE PAPER: Accenture surveyed 162 CIOs in North America and Europe about their IT investments and plans, with a focus on information management strategies and technologies.
Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008