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Accenture India to up headcount to 35,000

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BANGALORE: Accenture today announced that India would house the largest employee base for the company by this August.

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According to Bill Green, CEO of IT services and consulting firm, the headcount in India would increase from 27,000 at present to around 35,000 by the end of the fiscal year.

The company expects to have 65,000 people deployed worldwide across its global delivery network.

Accenture employs around 65,000 employees across its global delivery network including 27,000 people in India. The company plans to have around 10,000 employees in its BPO division and around 25,000 in system integration and consulting.

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“Accenture India is doing some leading edge and high-end differentiated work here. I am impressed by the quality of our work that they are delivering to clients. Accenture India has woven itself into the fabric of the company,” said Green.

He added that India houses the company’s fourth global technology lab and that the company is making investments into building capacities, skills and people. Green said that the company would add people to increase research and functional capabilities.

Green said that the company was seeing a lot of growth its consulting and system integration business, which together account for 60 per cent of the business. “Our expertise in business consulting is something that our competitors don’t have. The barriers to entry here are very high. We are looking at reenergizing our consulting business. The technology and consulting business has exceeded growth projections.”

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He added that some of this exercise would also come to India. “We see a lot of opportunities to leverage relationships with academia.”

The company’s outsourcing business that made up for 17 per cent of the revenues four years ago, today constitutes 40 per cent of Accenture’s overall business.

On possible acquisitions, Green said that the company’s M&A strategy involved “tactical tuck-ins”. “Culture is important to us and we want to make sure we preserve the cultur eof Accenture. We invest a lot in training and deployment.”

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