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Avanade to focus on digital collaborations

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BANGALORE:Avanade Inc., a joint venture of Microsoft and Accenture, today announced that it will focus on digital collaboration, Web 2.0, SOA, dynamic computing and enterprise systems in the next five years.

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Addressing the media here, Ashish Kumar, chief technology officer, Avanade, said, “In the coming years we want to focus on Web 2.0 style workspace and communities, blogging and other networking technologies, which are changing the corporate landscape.”

He said that combining all the above technologies in business processes has a tremendous impact on the industry. Avanade vision is to develop solutions based on these technologies, he added.

Kumar emphasized on how digital collaboration will represent IT with the greatest potential for improving business performance in the next five years.

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The firm’s vision for digital collaboration in the enterprise space is built around three areas: the “tagging” of people, content and physical assets with context information. Second, harnessing the power of Web 2.0 technologies and third, by connecting the world of the knowledge worker with the operational view of the enterprise and with the relevant external information.

“With digital collaboration enterprises can achieve productivity benefits by attaching context to people and information,” he said, adding, “at the backdrop of changing IT landscape, innovation, collaboration, optimizing cost and pricing, speed and risk management, and employee motivation are business drivers that create tremendous opportunity for IT to grow.”

Kumar said that product innovation will drive the organic growth of a company. Microsoft is investing a huge sum on innovations. Microsoft has committed $6.4 billion for R&D and dedicated research.

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“Our aim is to act as a catalyst to help them in these innovations,” Kumar added.

Avanade is dedicated to provide clients with infrastructure, application development and integration solutions using Microsoft enterprise technologies. It has over 7500 professionals globally, with 3300 employees working in the Global Delivery Network in India.

The firm has offshore centers in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai. It has a presence in 22 countries with a customer base of 2600 and with revenue of $483 million in FY ’06.

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