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Accenture Named to 'Winner's Circle' for Excellence in Telecom Operations Services, According to HfS Research Report
[March 18, 2015]

Accenture Named to 'Winner's Circle' for Excellence in Telecom Operations Services, According to HfS Research Report


Accenture (News - Alert) (NYSE:ACN) has been named to the 'Winner's Circle' of HfS Research's inaugural Blueprint Report for Telecom Operations Services. The report ranked Accenture as the overall leader in innovation, with a strong vision, concrete plans to invest in future capabilities, and a healthy cross-section of vertical capabilities, illustrating a strong ability to leverage external drivers to increase value for clients.

The report, which assessed seven service providers, found that companies in the 'Winner's Circle' had excellent telecom-specific social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and automation (SMACA) solutions, strong IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) synergy backed by customer case studies, experience in delivering innovation and value beyond cost, and a strong and compelling digital vision exhibited by their initiatives, plans and proof of concepts.

"Accenture thrives on its technology-led vision of the As-a-Service economy," said Pareekh Jain, principal HfS analyst in the report. "Accenture has been investing in and developing tools and technology for telecom digital operations. It has a strong vision to gradually transform telcos' business and its own business towards digital operations where an increasing proportion of the business processes can be delivered as Business Process as a Service (BPaaS)."

Accenture was recognized as a business outcomes-focused global service provider with a full set of Network BPO offerings for telecommunications providers. Additional strengths highlighted in the report include:

  • Delivery of Services for All Processes: Accenture has a depth in client experiences and capabilities across all telecom operations and sub--processes in SMACA. Clients pointed to examples of digital transformative solutions in all areas and to a deep bench of skilled delivery resources. It is quickly expanding into new BPO services reviously the domain of telecom equipment providers and management consulting firms.
  • Strong Initiative in Creating Telco Customer Communities: Through the Accenture Network Council, Accenture has fostered a community of 70 members to share common telco challenges and opportunities, and to educate about telecom practices.
  • Experience of Delivering Value Beyond Cost: Clients pointed to Accenture's focus on tangible business outcomes such as capex efficiency, process efficiency, cost reduction, customer satisfaction and compliance in its engagements. Accenture's real-time analytics capabilities at an employee level allowing for immediate course correction impressed clients. Accenture recently added advanced analytics applications to its analytics capabilities via its acquisition of i4C Analytics.



"We are proud to be placed in the 'Winner's Circle' of this HfS Blueprint report in recognition of the comprehensive telecom operations services we deliver to our clients globally each day," said Mike Salvino, group chief executive of Accenture Operations. "We remain committed to leveraging technology to help our clients transform their networks for the growing demand generated by digital services; enhance service quality, process efficiency and profitability; and improve digital operations that achieve clients' specific business goals."

The findings of the HfS Blueprint report were based on weightages determined by 1,300 crowd-sourced responses from a broad range of stakeholders, including enterprise BPO buyers, BPO service providers, BPO industry influencers (sourcing advisors) and HfS analysts.


The HfS Research Blueprint Report for Telecom Operations Services can be accessed here.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 319,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$30.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

About HfS

HfS Research is the leading independent global analyst authority and knowledge community for the business and IT services industry. HfS serves the research and strategy needs of business and IT operations leaders across finance, supply chain, human resources, marketing, customer management, and core industry functions. HfS provides detailed and thoughtful analyst coverage of the various areas that impact successful business outcomes, namely, process automation and outsourcing, global business services frameworks, mobility, analytics, and social collaboration. HfS also focuses heavily on talent acquisition, development, and motivation strategies. HfS applies its acclaimed crowdsourced Blueprint MethodologyTM to evaluate the performance of service providers in terms of innovating and then executing against those business outcomes.


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