Accenture launches new R&D facility in Bangalore

BANGALORE:
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, Accenture's chief technology officer, said, “The competitive
strength of Accenture's operation in India is central to our success as a global

company. In Bangalore, Accenture's research team will be able to interact

directly with the delivery teams responsible for some of the organization's

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 Accenture's

Experimental Software Environment (ESE), giving researchers hands-on experience

with new technologies.






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