Accenture

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Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company with more than 110 offices in 48 locations.

Accenture is a member of one of the four consortiums bidding for Singapore's S$2 billion (US$1.3 billion) Standard ICT Operating Environment (SOE) project. Dubbed iN'spire, the consortium is led by Hewlett-Packard and comprises several major local and multinational corporations including Singapore Technologies Electronics, Cisco Systems, Accenture and Microsoft.

In 2006, the company announced plans to invest US$450 million over the next three years in the development of service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.

Accenture is also part of an industry group of 18 software vendors and IT services providers which have banded together to encourage Asian businesses to migrate from legacy application environments to the Windows platform.

This company is listed in Services.

Financials
Fiscal year-end August FY06 FY05 FY04 FY03 FY02
Global full-year
revenue (US$millions)
15,500.0 13,670.0 11,800.0 11,600.0
Global full-year net
income (US$millions)
940.0 691.0 498.0 245.0

Average year-on-year revenue growth over 4 years 10.32 %
Average year-on-year net income growth over 4 years 59.35 %
Percentage of revenue from Asia
Percentage of Asian revenues from channel

Operations:
Founded USA/1989
First Asian office Hong Kong/1978
Global employees 133,000
Employees in Asia 36,200
Asian countries:
Total 9
China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand
Notes * Data correct as at September 2006. Information was compiled by ZDNet Asia from sources such as official reports, corporate Web sites, and Hoover's. ZDNet Asia strived to get the latest information but does not guarantee the correctness or completeness of the data. The information provided on this site is for general informational purposes only and is not an offer to buy or sell any securities.

ZDNet Asia's Top Tech Index will be next updated in 2008.


ZDNet Asia Top Tech categories
Systems | Networking and communications | Storage management | Security | Software Infrastructure | Services | Business applications | Internet services



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