Accenture Extends Alliance With PeopleSoft in Government and Education; Companies Deliver Comprehensive Suite of Internet Solutions.Business/High Tech Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2001 Accenture today announced it has extended its -- alliance with PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) as strategic business partners to provide professional services, business strategy, software products and training worldwide to clients in the Government and Higher Education markets. The companies are working together to deliver a full range of solutions to the education and government markets. These solutions are based on the PeopleSoft 8 suite of pure Internet business applications, including human resources, financial management, student administration and customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) solutions. PeopleSoft's Pure Internet architecture and full range of business applications seamlessly connect customers, suppliers, employees, and partners to business processes online in real time -- to dramatically improve business performance while lowering cost. Accenture and PeopleSoft will focus on continuing to build their strength in the government and education markets. The companies have partnered on more than 180 major engagements, delivering modern administrative systems to the public and private sectors. Joint government customers include the U.S. State Department, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Office of the Comptroller, the New Zealand Customs Service The Customs Service (In Māori, Te Mana Arai o Aotearoa) is a state sector organisation of New Zealand whose role is to provide border control and protect the community from potential risks arising from international trade and travel, as well as collecting duties and , and the French Ministry of Finance and Industry, among others. In addition, both companies have provided services to 16 universities. Among their joint higher education clients are the University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. , The Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. , University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , University of Queensland The University of Queensland (UQ) is the longest-established university in the state of Queensland, Australia, a member of Australia's Group of Eight, and the Sandstone Universities. It is also a founding member of the international Universitas 21 organisation. , University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales, also known as UNSW or colloquially as New South, is a university situated in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. and Griffith Universities in Australia, and Kanto Gakuen University in Japan. "Accenture and PeopleSoft have enjoyed tremendous success in the marketplace for nearly a decade with our complementary skills, services, products and extensive global footprint," said Kenneth Mitchell, an Accenture Partner for the Government practice. "As the marketplace has changed and become more competitive, our relationship has kept pace by applying new and emerging innovative technologies to help clients overcome challenges and seize opportunities, modernizing administrative systems, linking them to the Internet and introducing such new capabilities as PeopleSoft 8." Accenture, a global consulting and technology organization, and PeopleSoft, a leading enterprise application software provider, have worked together through a teaming arrangement first established in North America in 1993. The companies help government agencies and educational institutions manage change in a wide range of areas -- including adopting new administrative systems, accelerating the results of new and emerging technologies, and designing new processes to leverage the benefits of PeopleSoft's government and higher education commercial off-the-shelf software commercial off-the-shelf software - commercial software . "Through this alliance, Accenture and PeopleSoft will continue to help government and university officials improve their ability to deliver government and education programs and manage them more cost effectively," said Kevin Horigan, vice president and general manager of PeopleSoft Education and Government. "Our suite of enterprise products and Accenture's deep expertise in change management and business process re-engineering See reengineering. (business) Business Process Re-engineering - (BPR) Any radical change in the way in which an organisation performs its business activities. BPR involves a fundamental re-think of the business processes followed by a redesign of business activities to continues to be a winning combination." About Accenture Accenture is the world's leading management and technology consulting organization. Through its network of businesses approach -- in which the company enhances its consulting and outsourcing expertise through alliances, ventures and other capabilities -- Accenture delivers innovations that help clients across all industries quickly realize their visions. With more than 75,000 people in 47 countries, the company generated net revenues of $11.44 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2001. Its home page is www.accenture.com. |
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