ACCENTURE

HQ Address:
Accenture Global Services Limited, 3 Grand Canal
Plaza, Grand Canal Street Upper, Dublin, Ireland.
Local Branch Address:
Building No.1A and 1B, Raheja Mind Space, Hitech
City, Madhapur, Hyderabad, India, 500086.

Company Type: Software Company

Name: B. Naga Sai Kiranmai
Department: Civil Engineering
Roll No.: 311506
 Accenture PLC is a global management consulting and
professional services firm that provides strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations services.
Accenture solves clients toughest challenges by
providing unmatched services in strategy, consulting,
digital, technology and operations. It partnered with
more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500,
driving innovation to improve the way the world works
and lives. With expertise across more than 40 industries
and all business functions, it delivers transformational
outcomes for a demanding new digital world.
List of Services and Products provided by Accenture
STRATEGY
 Strategy Home
CONSULTING
 Consulting Home
 Technology Consulting
 Accenture Security
 Blockchain
OPERATIONS
 Operations Home
 Business Process Services
 Journey to Cloud
DIGITAL
 Digital Home
 Accenture Applied Intelligence
 Accenture Interactive
 Industry X.0
TECHNOLOGY
 Technology Home
 Accenture Labs
 Application Services
 Cloud
 Oracle
 SAP
 Microsoft
List of Industries of Investments
 Automotive and Industrial
 Banking
 Capital Markets
 Chemicals
 Communications and Media
 Consumer Goods and Services
 Energy
 Health
 High Tech
 Insurance
 Life Sciences
 Natural Resources
 Public Service
 Retail
 Software and Platforms
 Travel
 Utilities
Competition Landscape for Accenture
1. In IT Consulting, Accenture’s top competitors are
Deloitte Consulting, IBM Global Services and
CapGemini.
2. In IT Application Management Services, Accenture’s
top competitors are IBM Global Services, Tata
Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant
Technology Solutions and HP.
3. In Strategy Consulting, Accenture’s top competitors
are McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain and
Deloitte Consulting.
4. Accenture Interactive is a fairly new service offering
digital marketing to its clients. Pretty much, any
large digital marketing agency is its competitor.
SapientNitro is probably the largest competitor that
closely resembles Accenture Interactive in capability.
SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS
 The largest consulting firm globally-in terms of
revenue, it is the largest consulting business around
the globe.
 The firm has a fantastic ethics in business and when
it comes to performance, it does not compromise.
 Strong clientele- the firm has a large client based
whereby it acts as a consulting firm to many
organizations with top notch companies seeking
their services.
 For instance, 90% of the100 fortune companies and
over a half of all global companies have chosen
Accenture as their consulting firm.
WEAKNESSES
Lack of coordination- the firm has 19 units of
business which work collaboratively with the clients and
also with. This has often led to conflicts since there is no
internal coordination. It depends much on its consulting
business instead of pitting equal focus on IT and BPO
which can add revenue.
 One major weakness of the company is getting too
comfortable with its differentiation strategies leading to
its competition beating it. The company uses a lot of cash
in the advertising processes thereby having fewer
finances to contribute to its growth. Paying its workers
high salaries that are provided with the insurance health.
This is a weakness since the company is left with less
disposable income to spend on its operations
OPPORTUNITIES
 On opportunity is expansion of business, where the
firm can target small and mid-sized projects to grow
its market share. It can also enter into mergers and
acquisitions like it did with Gaspo and Agilex solution
thus reducing competition.
 The company also has the opportunities to expand
its operation to the foreign markets especially the
emerging markets.
THREATS
 One threat is competition where the tough
competing IT environment has been worrying the
company. The company faces competition from
companies like IBM, Infosys, and CapGemeni who
are all IT firms.
 It is imperative for the company to counter the
strategies employed by these companies to survive
on the market Bad financial times is also a threat for
the firm as it suffered a major setback during the
recession period as it highly depended on premium
clients.
 There are also threats or challenges within the
environment which hinder the company’s smooth
operation. These threats include rapid change in
technology which renders the company’s products
obsolete at higher rate and agile competition.
Financial Report:
• We delivered strong new bookings of $35.4
billion, a 7 percent increase in local currency.
• We grew net revenues 10.5 percent in local
currency to a record $32.9 billion.
• We delivered diluted earnings per share of
$6.45, compared with $4.76 in fiscal 2015.
After excluding $1.11 per share in gains on
the sale of businesses in fiscal 2016 and a
$0.06 per share pension settlement charge
in fiscal 2015, adjusted EPS of $5.34 in fiscal
2016 increased 11 percent.
• Our operating margin was 14.6 percent,
a 10 basis-point expansion from our adjusted
fiscal 2015 operating margin of 14.5 percent,
which excludes the 20 basis-point impact
of the pension settlement charge.
• We generated free cash flow of $4.1 billion
and returned $4.0 billion in cash to
shareholders through dividends and
share repurchases.
• We announced a 10 percent increase in
our semi-annual dividend shortly after
fiscal year-end.

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
https://www.accenture.com/in-en/company