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Business/Financial

Accenture Investing $400 Million To Boost Cloud Computing Capabilities

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

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Accenture Investing $400 Million To Boost Cloud Computing Capabilities

Accenture [ACN] yesterday said it would invest more than $400 million over the next two years in its cloud computing capabilities and training to increase the depth of services it can provide in four key areas. The four areas of investment are in professional services, its existing ecosystem of industry alliances, enabling of its software and business process outsourcing offerings and business services, and implementation of its own cloud architecture. An Accenture spokeswoman told Defense Daily via email that the…

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