VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

“The gender equality is an essential element of an inclusive workplace,” says Accenture Chairman & CEO Pierre Nanterme. “At Accenture, our commitment to inclusion and diversity starts at the top, and we empower all of our people – including our more than 130,000 women – to lead. We believe strongly that gender equality is essential for a high-performing, talent-led organization. This commitment extends to pay, and we strive to ensure that all our people – women and men – are compensated fairly and equitably from the moment we hire them through the milestones of their careers here,” said Nanterme. Accenture has pledged to grow the percentage of women it hires to at least 40 per cent worldwide by 2017 and has made steady progress toward this goal. In the fiscal year 2015 – the 12 months ended August 31, 2015, approximately 39 per cent of the company’s more than 100,000 new hires were women... Read more

Rio Tinto has partnered with Accenture to move to information systems and technology (IS&T) delivery model, to shape and deliver the transformation. The new model will migrate core enterprise IS&T systems to an “As-a-Service” solution based in the cloud. It also incorporates consumption-based pricing to ensure costs are fully flexible and in line with business demand. Rio Tinto Group CIO Simon Benney said, “We selected Accenture to help us manage this transformation based on its global delivery capabilities, its vision for the intelligent business cloud and its ability to support our digital transformation programme.” The programme will include the modernization of the company’s existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and Information Management (IM) platforms, consolidating and hosting these applications in the public cloud. Under the terms of the agreement, Accenture will also manage the maintenance and upgrade of this application landscape and related infrastructur