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		<title><![CDATA[Defra defends Accenture over “flawed” £350m IT system]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top civil servants have defended Accenture after it helped to deliver a "fundamentally flawed" £350m IT system to pay EU subsidies to farmers. Helen Ghosh, permanent secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Defra, told MPs yesterday: "The people responsible for the fact that the IT system...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:02:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cost Optimization For Transmission And Backhaul Technologies]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As competition in the wireless marketplace intensifies, and as saturation occurs among the customer base leading to slower Average Revenue Per User ARPU growth, wireless operators on the path to high performance are looking to cost optimization strategies- and especially looking for ways to decrease their existing transmission network costs....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thomas Cook UK And Ireland: Enabling High Performance With A Long-Term Strategic Partnership]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its efforts to become a high-performance business, Thomas Cook UK and Ireland partnered with Accenture in a collaborative outsourcing relationship to share the risks and rewards of a redefined back-office operation. The main component of this agreement was a cost-effective shared services center co-located with Thomas Cook UK and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Accenture Completes Acquisition of Nokia Services Unit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accenture announced that it has completed its acquisition of the professional services unit of Nokia, a move that will help take Accenture more directly into the business of servicing embedded and mobile operating systems.Accenture announced that it has completed its acquisition of the professional services unit of Nokia, a move...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:04:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Accenture completes buyout of Nokia&#8217;s Symbian unit]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Accenture has completed its acquisition of Nokia&#8217;s Symbian Professional Services as part of its push to capitalise on the ?explosive adoption of converged mobile multimedia services?.Accenture says the acquisition will strengthen its ability to offer engineering and support to manufacturers and service providers working with Symbian, the Finnish mobile...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:52:48 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NAO urges DEFRA agency to replace £350m system that's only 4 years old]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rural Payments Agency should replace a £350 million IT system, which has been in operation for only four years, the government's public spending watchdog said today. The cost of the main IT system at the Rural Payments Agency has risen to more than four times the original estimate of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Road To Recovery: A Report On Consumer Behavior In The New Economy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer behavior typically returns to normal soon after recessions end. However, in extreme cases, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s, financial crisis may influence the consumer psyche for decades. How consumers respond to signs of economic recovery will be closely watched over the coming months. This paper throws...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Automating Change Management Responsibly]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Automating Change Management Responsibly  Please join Dennis Drogseth, Vice President of Enterprise Management Associates and Stephen Nunn, Associate Partner of Accenture to discuss the economic and procedural value of process automation in your environment. Dennis will provide an overview of the advantages of automating IT processes citing industry statistics...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Accenture Helps BT On Its Journey To High Performance Through The Development Of An Award-Winning Social Learning Solution]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BT and Accenture worked together to create an environment for continuous, networked learning, enabling BT to achieve its workforce transformation goals in support of its 21st century network rollout. Based on Microsoft SharePoint, the solution uses existing technologies and investments and resulted in a strong cost saving to BT that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BP signs another software outsourcing deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan Glick, Computing, Thursday 27 August 2009 at 10:26:00 Accenture wins latest contract, to support SAP development  BP has announced another major software outsourcing deal, following yesterday's contract wins by Indian firms TCS and Infosys. The energy giant has now signed up Accenture to help simplify, standardise and consolidate...]]></description>
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