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Accenture Unveils Service-Oriented Architecture Platform
Nov 20, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Accenture, a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, has launched a flexible, service-based technology platform that the firm said will help public agencies manage a wide array of citizen services in an integrated manner.
The Accenture Public Service Platform integrates commercial as well as open source application components using an approach that enables updating and replacement with minimal impact.
By combining preconfigured public service components, Accenture stated that its Public Service Platform addresses the needs of multiple levels of government and individual public agencies for:
- Accelerated implementation: Preconfiguration means agencies can eliminate from 6 to 18 months of time associated with typical technology platform development.
- Risk mitigation: Proven components and methods from implementations of the architecture at numerous clients help to reduce technological, operational, security and delivery risks.
- Flexibility and modularity: A modular approach makes it easy to work with existing technical architectures and integrate with legacy and external systems. The architecture supports incremental approaches as well as total operational function replacement. The platform is vendor-independent, giving clients flexibility now and in the future.
- Enhanced and expanded services: The Platform includes many ways for citizens to access the system, such as via telephone, self-service web sites and mobile devices to drive better outcomes for citizens and maximize agencies' use of limited staff and budget.
- Improved communication and collaboration: The Platform helps agencies work collaboratively across departmental and agency boundaries by enabling cross-program and enterprise-wide solutions.
- Standards compliance: The Platform follows Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), open standards as defined in the Federal Technical Reference Model and industry coding standards such as OASIS and w3C.
"Accenture's Public Service Platform, drawing on our Service Oriented Architecture capabilities, is designed to address public agencies' unique needs for flexibility, integration to enable agencies to better meet citizen needs, and reduced cost and risk, and provides those benefits without being tied to a specific vendor's offerings," said David McCurley, Accenture's managing director for global human services.
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