The expanded relationship involves a series of initiatives, which will initially include the creation of the Accenture Innovation Center for Sun Solutions. In the identity management area, Sun and Accenture said they have agreed to pursue opportunities in both technology-enablement and market-specific offerings.
For the SOA, application integration, and composite application market, Sun and Accenture said they will develop technology offerings that they said will further enhance ease-of-use and speed to market for the creation of secure, composite applications built on the Sun platform.
In addition, the companies have established an executive team that will identify and assess additional market and technology opportunities as they emerge.
Enterprises across the world are looking to open source and open standards as they architect for Web 2.0 and the next evolution of service-oriented architectures, said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun CEO and president. Sun’s leadership products and developer momentum combined with Accenture’s business process expertise and world-class implementation resources make this an ideal relationship.
The companies said joint development teams will be dedicated to the creation of custom solutions for specific client requests as well as the development of industrialized, repeatable, and secure identity-enabled and SOA-based solutions for clients globally.
