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Follow UsBANGALORE: Accenture
has opened a new research and development technology lab
in Bangalore. The fourth such facility operated by Accenture Technology
Labs, joins sites in the United States (Palo Alto, California and Chicago,
Illinois) and France (Sophia Antipolis).
Accenture Technology Labs-India will focus on original research and
development in systems integration and software engineering. The goal will be to
enable businesses to reduce the cost and improve the quality of technology
solution delivery.
Scott Rose, global managing director, Accenture Technology Labs, said, The
role of the labs is to create a vision of how technology will shape the future
and invent the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions and new ways to
develop those solutions."
Don Rippert, Accentures chief technology officer, said, The competitive
strength of Accenture operation in India is central to our success as a global
company. In Bangalore, Accentures research team will be able to interact
directly with the delivery teams responsible for some of the organizations
largest and most complex systems integration projects.
Specific areas of R&D in Bangalore lab will initially include
service-oriented and distributed software architectures, collaborative
technologies and processes, automated quality management for software
development, data quality management and data services, testing theory and
practice for software and systems and large-scale distributed workforce
management techniques.
According to Dr Lin Chase, Director of the Accenture Technology Labs-India
research and development professionals
from India's leading universities and research and software engineering
institutes will staff the Bangalore facility. She estimated that the core team
would grow to more than 100 researchers and developers.
The Bangalore lab will have access to up to 2,000 of the latest software
development projects across Accenture. Supporting this will be Accentures
Experimental Software Environment (ESE), giving researchers hands-on experience
with new technologies.
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