Accenture's recent set of results has met analyst expectations and while things are slowing down in the consultancy market, Accenture - like many global services organisations - is profiting from the boom in the outsourcing.
At least that's one conclusion that could be drawn from a debate yesterday between the IT chiefs of British Airways, BSkyB and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) at the UK Technology Summit in London. To stick with the LSE for a moment, Lester and his...
Barclays is set to sign a £450m IT outsourcing deal with Accenture that could see hundreds of software development jobs moved to India. Barclays has selected Accenture over IBM and is now in final negotiations with the firm over a six-year contract...
Despite that many companies decided India was the place for them and 2003 saw major offshore outsourcing deals with Barclays close to signing a deal with Accenture that could see hundreds of software development jobs going to India, Norwich Union...
Barclays bank has signed a six-year IT outsourcing deal worth more than £400m with Accenture, as exclusively revealed by silicon.com last December. Around 900 Barclays UK employees will transfer to Accenture in the UK over a 12-month period.
Elizabeth Sparrow, chair of the British Computer Society working party on offshoring recently told me: "The mega-outsourcing deals of the past rarely delivered innovation and significant service improvements.