The FINANCIAL — Accenture has launched the Accenture Innovation Center for HP to help clients apply joint Accenture and HP technology solutions to specific industry and business process challenges in the areas of cloud, security and analytics. The innovation center allows clients to take advantage of next-generation solutions and services based on HP technologies, helping to accelerate time to value, according to Accenture.
As part of Accenture’s Global Delivery Network, the Accenture Innovation Center for HP provides clients around the globe with virtual access to development and demonstration environments that are enabled on an integrated technology platform that consists of current releases of HP software and hardware. The innovation center provides an immersive learning experience through day-in-the-life scenarios to illustrate innovative concepts and approaches, and hosts workshops to help clients gain a deeper understanding of how technology can be applied to address business requirements.
“The new Accenture Innovation Center for HP helps us demonstrate the art of the possible by incorporating people, process, technology and business strategy to provide our clients with a hands-on opportunity to experience innovative solutions,” said Jim Hayes, managing director of global alliances at Accenture. “Accenture has worked with HP for more than 20 years and we are pleased to launch this innovation center in order to demonstrate to our clients how we convert leading practices and emerging technologies into business outcomes,” he added.
“We are proud to team with Accenture in the development of new, innovative solutions to help meet the requirements of our enterprise customers,” said Sue Barsamian, worldwide senior vice president and general manager for Enterprise Group Indirect Sales at HP. “The launch of the Accenture Innovation Center for HP shows Accenture’s commitment in working with HP to transform our joint customers’ businesses through the New Style of IT, and can create value for our customers,” Barsamian added.
Combining Accenture’s industry and functional experience with HP’s technology, the Accenture Innovation Center for HP helps clients work with solution architects, technology specialists and developers to bring breakthrough innovations to life, validate them, and engineer them for faster time to value. Common services, industry leading practices and case studies are harvested from current and previous engagements and are combined with Accenture’s insight into HP product engineering, current capabilities and product roadmaps to assist in the design of solutions that work today and are relevant for the future, according to Accenture.
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