Accenture launches global mobility business
Accenture Mobility Operated Services will offer a mobile “services store” that includes the design, delivery and management of a broad portfolio of vertical mobility applications using Accenture’s proven software platform for mobile applications.
These are ready-to-deploy mobile applications that encompass money management, voucher and ticketing, mobile data collection, and many other business- and consumer-related services.
A key market differentiator of this new business is Accenture’s Service Delivery Platform (SDP), which reduces the initial high costs of IT and infrastructure setup while minimising the risk and complexity of managing multiple connections to third parties.
An industry-leading platform, Accenture’s SDP is integrated with leading communications service providers’ and business partners’ platforms.
Accenture’s SDP combines hardware, software and services into a common architecture that enables cross industry enterprises to create and deliver solutions across different networks.
Accenture has launched the business in Italy, with plans to expand in Europe, the Americas and the Asia Pacific region during 2009. Accenture Mobility Operated Services will initially target the communications, financial services, resources, retail, automotive, and public-service sectors, although Accenture Mobility Operated Services can be used by an enterprise in any industry.
Pricing will be transaction- or subscription-based, with costs based on clients’ business volume, such as number of subscribers, devices, or transactions.
Accenture has a history of enabling clients to launch and manage new mobile services quickly and efficiently. For example, when the Poste Italiane group announced its intention to sell mobile phone services under the name “PosteMobile,” Accenture developed a technology platform that enabled PosteItaliane’s 14,000 postal offices to act as the PosteMobile retail network.
In addition to building and maintaining the IT infrastructure to support PosteMobile’s core business processes, Accenture provides operations, management and business process outsourcing services, including service configuration and testing of the handsets and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards.
PosteMobile can now provide its customers with innovative mobile services by integrating and making its traditional offerings (such as national post office network, and bank and certification authority) accessible through any standard handset.
