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Accenture and Vodafone publish long-term usage report on tablet computers

Businessman using Avaya's Flare tablet
Great for reading and presenting but not ready to replace a laptop yet, study concludes
20 Feb 2012

Accenture: Context-based services set to emerge in 2012

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Report highlights that availability of contextual data from smartphone, cloud and social media usage will create revenue opportunities
24 Jan 2012

DWP awards another big IT contract to another big supplier

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The contract with Accenture will be worth up to £490m over seven years
03 Nov 2011

Programmers deserve more respect


31 Oct 2011

Women in IT - Accenture Technology MD Part 2

Liv Sandbaek, managing director, Technolgy at Accenture discusses what it's like being a woman in the IT industry
17 Oct 2011

Thomas Cook signs up Accenture to integrate European IT

Outsourcing giant to create agile, cloud-based infrastructure for travel group
20 Sep 2011

European Parliament signs €12m contract with Accenture

Four-year deal will see Accenture design and manage HR, finance, logistics and administrative management apps
05 Sep 2011

Women in IT - Accenture Technology MD

Liv Sandbaek, managing director, Technology, Accenture, discusses her experiences in IT
05 Sep 2011

IT Leaders: Tech skills key to harnessing social media

The growing trend for businesses to use social media tools to engage with customers is opening up new career opportunities for tech-savvy graduates
05 Jul 2011

Nokia confirms Accenture to support Symbian until 2016

Drawn out death for major mobile operating system
22 Jun 2011

Manual processing may save Rural Payments Agency from further fines

Agency turns to manual payment processing with IT systems unable to cope
18 May 2011

Most enterprises prefer gut feeling to analytics, survey suggests

Most blue-chip firms are only scratching the surface of what analytics can do, says Accenture
06 May 2011

City of London signs up Accenture to centralise procurement

The deal aims to deliver £30m in savings over five years
04 Mar 2011

Accenture chief joins Ixaris as CIO

Tim Murfet will take over the IT reins at electronics payments specialist
22 Feb 2011

IT will be all about data management, says Accenture

Report says applications will become commoditised, demand for security workers will decline, and 'cloud computing' will be a superfluous term
09 Feb 2011

Gap between excellent and bog-standard CIOs growing

An Accenture report looks at the widening gap between high-performing IT leaders and those that struggle
08 Dec 2010

London Stock Exchange set to launch new trading system

System is the fastest in the world, according to the LSE
08 Oct 2010

Regulatory change needed to improve the smart grid

Report concludes that regulatory change and consumer engagement are needed for smart grid success
13 Sep 2010

Open source technology sees mass acceptance

But barriers around training and senior management support remain
09 Aug 2010

Accenture loses preliminary appeal in British Gas dispute

Both parties set to battle in court in October next year
04 Aug 2010

Q&A Part 1: Dr Kishore Swaminathan, Accenture chief scientist

Accenture's chief scientist Dr Kishore Swaminathan talks to Computing about the most interesting technologies on the market
16 Apr 2010

British American Tobacco outsources application support

Multi-year deal expected to bring “step changes” to the firm's IT set-up
29 Jan 2010

Q&A: Accenture Technology Labs head of research, Kelly Dempski

Dempski talks to Computing about social media and Accenture's Intelligent Digital Platform
08 Jan 2010

British Gas favoured in Accenture lawsuit judgment

High Court issues judgment on points raised by the supplier over troubled billing platform
09 Nov 2009