AT&T and Accenture

Overview

AT&T and Accenture provide unique value to customers by creating distinct and powerful customer solutions in the marketplace.

Joint Market Offers
- End-to-end managed business solutions designed jointly and hosted in AT&T's global data center network. Our first joint offer, Enterprise Messaging Service (EMS), is a hosted messaging and collaboration service based on the Microsoft Exchange application. This solution also provides the foundation for optional capabilities such as secure instant messaging and unified communications.
Application Management, Infrastructure and Hosting
- Accenture and AT&T can meet a client's specific needs by combining Accenture's application design, management and consulting capabilities with AT&T's infrastructure and hosting services.

Customer Solution

Here is an example of a solution that we provided for a global explosives company.

Challenge:

Controlling IT costs while supporting the client's global SAP applications on an aging and disparate network.

Solution:

AT&T and Accenture teamed together to migrate the client's global SAP R/3 applications from a Unix-based infrastructure to a Microsoft based architecture.

Benefits:

The company avoided several maintenance fees on servers that were due to expire as well as the prospect of increases in the cost of software licensing and hardware maintenance.

Benefits to client
- Saving in upcoming IT costs by migrating to a Microsoft based architecture and outsourcing the hardware to an offsite AT&T datacenter
- Improved employee productivity with a boost in SAP R/3 performance of 30%
- Minimized downtime during conversion