Accenture Oracle Solutions News and Events

Listening in at OpenWorld

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:35:55 GMT

Turn IFRS Adoption Challenges into Opportunities

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:16:00 GMT

North America’s transition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is no longer a question of “if”, but “when” and “how.”

Accenture Accelerator Helps Governments Modernize Legacy Systems with Pre-Built Tools

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:23:00 GMT

Governments are under pressure to bring more services to citizens at less cost. Unfortunately, many agencies are also saddled by aging IT hardware and software systems that hinder rather than enable their missions of citizen service. To address this problem, Accenture is introducing an accelerator called the Accenture Public Service Platform.

Accenture and Oracle Demonstrate their Vision for Integrated Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:40:28 GMT

Almost two centuries ago, Nathan Rothschild became the richest man in England—and probably the world—with a fortune that in today’s terms was greater than that of Bill Gates'. A major reason why he got so rich was that he had a private intelligence network—using cutting-edge technology of the day like carrier pigeons, fast boats and coded letters—that was far better than anyone else’s.

Accenture Scoops Two Oracle Titans

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:16:39 GMT

Accenture has always believed in the value that Oracle technology products can bring to helping our clients solve business challenges—particularly in service-oriented architecture, business intelligence and security. That is why we have made such substantial investments to accelerate growth in this area—the Accenture Innovation Center for Oracle is one example of the kind of emphasis we are putting on Oracle. But the real test is how well we succeed in the market and in the work we do for our clients.

Accenture Demonstrates Security as a Service in an Oracle Environment

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:39:00 GMT

There are so many good ideas that are transforming IT at the moment—I'm thinking of initiatives like service-oriented architecture and similar approaches that allow technology to serve business better. All this is great, but securing this more open kind of environment is a challenge—and solving this challenge is what I worry about each day. And I'm not alone: the July 2007 Accenture High-performance IT Survey shows that 100 percent of CIOs are working to get their most critical data secure, with more than 50 percent hoping to achieve enterprisewide data security within three years. Security is clearly integral to high performance.

Accenture Center of Excellence for Oracle in Bangalore: Helping Clients on the Journey to Fusion

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:51:39 GMT

An earlier blog on this page looked at the progress of the Accenture Innovation Center for Oracle after a year of operation. The Accenture Center of Excellence for Oracle in Bangalore has now also been operational for just over a year, so it seems a good time to look back at what we have created, and what we see in the future.

Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture: An Interim Step on the Road to Fusion Applications

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:04:42 GMT

At Oracle OpenWorld in November, a lot of people were talking about Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture initiative—or AIA. Announced last spring, the AIA initiative aims to meet customers’ needs to cost effectively integrate Oracle's existing and acquired applications, while creating an evolutionary migration path to the future Fusion applications and architecture. AIA does this through pre-built, sustainable integrations that help customers manage business processes that rely on several different applications.

Why Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Should Be on Everyone’s Short List

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:16:39 GMT

I’m often asked why a company looking for a business intelligence solution should consider Oracle’s Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) rather than one of the legacy business intelligence players. Let me first state for the record that I have a natural bias towards Oracle, being the Oracle BI lead at Accenture. But here is why I believe OBIEE needs to be on everyone’s short list.

Providing a Jump Start to Oracle SOA

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:14:10 GMT

Since its December launch in the United Kingdom, the Accenture European Innovation Center for Oracle has been at the heart of our service-oriented architecture (SOA) innovation throughout Europe. That’s where we meet with clients and our own client teams to listen to their needs, share our service-oriented architecture expertise and develop solutions that will help them migrate to service-oriented architecture faster. We were hearing client feedback such as “Service-oriented architecture is too complicated” and “It takes too much effort to implement service-oriented architecture.” We acted on that feedback and created the Accenture Oracle SOA Project Accelerator.

Accenture on Siebel OnDemand: Evolve Your Delivery Approach and Focus on High Performance

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:09:30 GMT

The trend is clear, software as a service (SaaS) is here to stay. Why? Both IT and business buyers like the fact that SaaS can make IT easier and more accessible while simultaneously lowering costs. Web 2.0, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and SaaS all provide a common focus on automated Web services as well as process orchestration and workflow, which decreases cost and increases flexibility. Accenture sees SaaS as a way for businesses to accelerate productivity. In fact, Accenture High Performance Business research shows that high performance IT organizations are two to three times more likely to be implementing SaaS than their peers.

Accenture Innovation Center for Oracle Comes of Age

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:17:07 GMT

It has been about a year since we launched the Accenture Innovation Center for Oracle and it has really begun to deliver the kind of benefits we envisaged. One of the keys to its success is physical proximity—it is situated at Oracle's worldwide headquarters—making it easy for Accenture and Oracle people to work together to develop prototypes and solutions that solve clients' business problems. It's also a good place to demonstrate our combined vision and capabilities.

War or Business: Battling With Intelligence

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:32:35 GMT

War taught me many things, but one of the most critical was the importance of data and the crucial intelligence it offers. It seems like only yesterday that I was serving in the US Armed Forces and the National Security Agency. I sat banging away at my terminal, searching through databases, analyzing data and passed it along to our military commanders—some on the other side of the world. All of this sweat was to get the right information to the right person at the right time—and it was vital work, because lives depended on it.

The Power of Double Vision

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:34:50 GMT

One of the most important exercises we do at Accenture is to reformulate our technology vision each year. This year we did so through "collaborative visioning", which sought to leverage the huge depth of technology and business experience in Accenture's global network of 158,000 professionals. Through our collective efforts, we came up with eight trends that we think will shape the way in which business and governments will be using technology over the medium term. Overall, we think the trends will usher in a new paradigm—the Process-centric Enterprise.

Accenture Launches European Innovation Center for Oracle

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:07:56 GMT

Anyone can say a project or a product has been successful, but it’s the repeat business that really shows success. With this in mind, it’s with a real sense of achievement and pride that Accenture opened its second Innovation Center for Oracle, this time located at Oracle’s offices in Reading, United Kingdom, and, as its name implies, intended to provide services to the entire European region. This further investment in our joint relationship was prompted by the success of the Accenture Innovation Center for Oracle at Oracle’s global headquarters in California. After a year of operation, that center has hosted more than 25 visits by clients wanting to benefit from interaction with Accenture and Oracle thought leaders, and developed 10 new assets.

Managing the Workforce as a Strategic Asset with Analytics

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:52:01 GMT

Workforce retention and productivity is top of mind for executive management these days. Accenture's own research shows that many organizations don’t feel they do a good job of managing their workforce as a strategic asset. Part of the problem is that they don’t have good methods and tools to align workforce management to business strategy. Although they have access to a great deal of workforce data in their enterprise HR management systems, they lack the ability to transform that data into useful, actionable business intelligence. As a result, they are essentially flying blind when it comes to managing the workforce from a truly strategic perspective.

It’s Not Business Intelligence as Usual.

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:34:09 GMT

It is clear that business intelligence (BI) has fast become a top priority with high-performance businesses. But as business intelligence has moved onto the business executive’s agenda, the technologies driving it have evolved too. Executives need to understand what they can expect from these new technologies and approaches in order to maximize the value from their investments. Most notably, many software vendors, including Oracle, are introducing a variety of prebuilt analytics that support or enhance operational and business processes common to most organizations, including financials, HR, order management, supply chain, sales, service, contact center and marketing. This tactical analysis—frequently called operational business intelligence—is a shift from the past when business intelligence referred to analytics that were strategic and primarily dealt with the trends found in historical data.

Accenture to Participate in Shanghai Oracle OpenWorld Event

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:10:00 GMT

From July 30 through August 2, 2007, the Oracle community of professionals and users in the Asia Pacific region will come together at Oracle OpenWorld in Shanghai. Accenture will have a strong presence at the conference, reflecting the strength of our Oracle practice globally and in Asia.