Accenture Opens New BPO Delivery Center in Warsaw.WARSAW, Poland -- Accenture (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ACN ACN Accenture (stock symbol) ACN Accenture ACN Australian Company Number ACN Automatic Collision Notification (US DOT) ACN Acetonitrile ACN Anglican Communion Network ), a global management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects , technology services and outsourcing company, has opened a new delivery center in Warsaw that will provide business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in (BPO BPO Business Process Outsourcing BPO Benevolent & Protective Order (of Elks of the USA) BPO Benzoyl Peroxide BPO Business Process Optimization BPO Broker Price Opinions BPO Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra ) services in finance and accounting, supply chain management and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. . When fully staffed, the delivery center will employ up to 1,000 highly skilled professionals speaking more than a dozen European languages. "Adding a center in Warsaw will allow us to provide services to our clients looking to leverage our BPO capabilities across a number of industries," said Pawel Lobejko, Warsaw BPO Delivery Center lead. "We're actively recruiting highly skilled personnel throughout our Global Delivery Network and Warsaw will play an important part as one of the nodes of our European BPO network". Accenture has selected Warsaw among various potential locations for its large population of motivated professionals, its modern infrastructure, and Poland's economic and political stability. The Warsaw delivery center will join other Accenture centers in Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. , like Prague, Bratislava and Riga, providing a complete array of technology and BPO services. "Accenture's workforce is global and we have the industry knowledge and capabilities to service our clients in the markets and geographies that make the most sense for them," said Jo Deblaere, a senior executive who heads Accenture's BPO global delivery network. "By adding a new center, we believe that we can provide critical business process - be it customer support, or accounts payable and receivable, or corporate learning, or human resources - anywhere that service is required, at any time, and in any language our customers use." Accenture's Global Delivery Network provides a wide array of services in system integration, application outsourcing, and business process outsourcing. It comprises more than 44,000 people, including local Accenture professionals working at client sites around the world, and more than 40 delivery centers in over 20 countries throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. Accenture has been working for clients in Poland for more than 15 years and opened its Warsaw office in 1993. About Accenture Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize mo·bi·lize v. 1. To make mobile or capable of movement. 2. To restore the power of motion to a joint. 3. To release into the body, as glycogen from the liver. the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With more than 129,000 people in 48 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$15.55 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2005. Its home page is www.accenture.com. |
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