Accenture Foundation Platform for Oracle enhanced with new digital capabilities

NEW YORK, USA: Accenture unveiled the latest version of its Accenture Foundation Platform for Oracle (AFPO), which helps clients deploy Oracle Fusion Middleware and associated Oracle products quickly and can reduce development costs and accelerate time to value.

The latest version of AFPO addresses this requirement with new capabilities that helps integrate mobility and improve customer experiences with other Oracle Applications, as well providing support for Oracle Engineered Systems through Accenture's strategic initiative with Oracle. With greater flexibility in implementing Oracle solutions across multiple platforms, clients can experience an accelerated time to market, increased efficiency and improved customer engagements.

AFPO's framework takes a multi-channel approach and supports the end-to-end customer experience with Portal of the Future, a comprehensive reference application that creates customized engagements for customers via web, mobile, and social channels.

This reference application provides insight on how customer interactions can be improved by using Oracle solutions such as Siebel Open UI, Oracle Commerce and Oracle Service Cloud (RightNow). AFPO also includes a ‘starter kit' for Oracle Customer Experience (CX) that can provide industry-specific templates for common day-in-the-life scenarios, allowing clients to jumpstart their digital transformations.

Derek Steelberg, global managing director of Oracle business for Accenture, said, "Our newest version of AFPO can help clients become digital businesses by taking advantage of Oracle's innovative mobile and customer experience technologies."

Enhanced support for Oracle ADF Mobile allows companies using AFPO to develop mobile capabilities across multiple mobile platforms, bypassing the need to write code for each individual platform. Accenture is also introducing AFPO Mobile for custom mobile application development.

The new version of AFPO also has deployment accelerators for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exadata Database Machine, with quick start virtual machines to help clients easily build an Oracle Fusion Middleware environment.

AFPO can be delivered either in stages or all at once as an on-site, hosted or cloud solution. Clients also have access to a skilled team of architects and engineers, reducing risk while improving project quality. The new features in AFPO are pre-integrated to work with more than 30 Oracle Fusion Middleware products, enhancing efficiency and utilization of resources.