Accenture will invest more than $250 million over the next three years to expand its technology consulting capabilities to help clients align information technology and business strategy.
"Aligning IT with business strategy has, once again, become a top issue for companies worldwide. To address this, we areenhancing the end-to-end services we offer through Accenture Technology Consulting, an organization within our Systems
Integration & Technology growth platform,” said William D.Green, Chairman & CEO, Accenture.

The investment is designed to address a strong increase in
demand from clients for services and advice from technology
-platform-independent services providers.It will enable Accenture to enhance its strategy planning,
marketing, offering and asset development, alliance
development and management, and recruiting and training for
its technology capabilities.
It will focus on helping clients: develop IT strategies that
deliver measurable business outcomes; standardize,
virtualize and secure their IT infrastructures and
applications; improve worker productivity; and implement new
consumer-like, Web-based applications that tap into the
potential of services-oriented architecture (SOA) and other
newer technologies.
The investment will enable Accenture to expand on the
development of next-generation data center capabilities,
including data center consolidation; server consolidation
and rationalization; storage transformation; test- and
development-environment transformation; service desk
optimization; and "green computing" for optimizing data-
center performance while reducing power consumption.
It would also focus on a series of enterprise network
offerings that leverage Accenture's expertise in designing
and building converged data and voice systems, highly
specialized IT infrastructure and application security
capabilities and next-generation workplace capabilities to
help deploy IT to automate common workplace activities.
“We are enhancing the services we offer by building and
expanding our technical capabilities and investing
aggressively in our workforce,” said Don Rippert, Chief
Technology Officer, Accenture.