Headquartered in El Segundo, California, DAZ was founded in 1995
Accenture - considered as one of the top-most employers in India among the global technology services companies - is believed to have over 150,000 workers in India
Accenture has spent about $3.4 bn over last three years - nearly half of it in fiscal 2017 - on 70 acquisitions, to boost its digital, cloud services in order to compete better with Cognizant, IBM
Tech giant's India unit is developing blockchain-based solutions for global oil & gas majors
Analysts say broad-based growth acceleration is a positive for all Indian infotech companies
The company also said it expects operating margin to expand in the second half of the year
Accenture has spent about $3.4 billion on nearly 70 acquisitions in the past three years
Net income for diluted earnings per share calculation fell to $974.1 million, or $1.48 per share
Aggressive innovation moves such as $2000 for best ideas can outweigh Indian peers in gaining digital revenue Accenture Plc has started funding innovation ideas from employees on emerging technologies to drive faster growth in digital. The US-based firm has received 13,700 ideas from employees of Indian technology delivery centres on digital technologies such as design thinking machine learning - two key themes were Disruptive Businesses, Digital India - and the best ones are being implemented for its customers across India and global markets. Accenture has started offering $ 2000 for shortlisted 40-50 ideas to turn them as prototypes. Accenture, which is aggressively looking at technology-led growth through acquisition of small firms, spent nearly $900 million in the past two years in employee education and driving innovation on emerging technology, said Mohan Sekhar, Senior Managing Director, Accenture Technology Services.The company currently generates nearly half of its $35 ...
Firm has been driving growth in digital technology areas by acquiring small firms
Shares of the company fell 1.3 per cent to $125.40 in premarket trading
Net revenue rose to $8.32 billion from $7.95 billion
As IT services firms brace for a more protectionist US technology visa program under President Trump
Accenture said new jobs would increase the company's US workforce by 30% to over 65,000 by the 2020-end
Firm is working with entities specialising in digital payment and provide operation-as-a-service to small finance banks
Innovation Jockey received 3,600 ideas from 800 colleges
The competition saw response from 800 colleges with 3,600 ideas
The company's net income rose to $1.13 billion after it made investments to boost Accenture's digital and cloud services
Company saw higher demand from North American customers
Manish Sharma announced group operating officer- Accenture operations