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Accenture began as the business and technology consulting division of accounting firm Arthur Andersen in the early 1950s. [4] The division conducted a feasibility study for General Electric to install a computer at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, which led to GE's installation of a UNIVAC I computer and printer, believed to be the first commercial use of a computer in the United States.
It was also the parent corporation of Andersen Consulting (now called Accenture) before its split in 2000. This umbrella organization was originally formed under the name of Arthur Andersen Société Coopérative as a Swiss cooperative in 1977 by the then partners of Arthur Andersen LLP and other professional services firms associated with it.
Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corporations and was one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers).
In 2000, Andersen Consulting broke off from Arthur Andersen and announced their new name Accenture. [16] The name change was effective starting January 1, 2001, and Accenture is currently the largest consulting firm in the world in employee headcount. [17] They are publicly traded on the NYSE with ticker ACN. [18]
Accenture plc is an American professional services company nominally based in Dublin for tax benefits, specializing in information technology services and consulting. It has been a very acquisitive company, completing more than 275 acquisitions [ 1 ] since it split off from Arthur Andersen .
Accenture [1] June 14, 2017: Computing Dublin, Ireland AEGIQ [2] 2019 Computing/Communication Photonics and Integrated Photonics, Quantum Dots, Cryptography, Photonic Quantum Computing: Sheffield, UK Agnostiq 2018 Computing High Performance Computing, Open Source HPC/Quantum Workflow Manager, [3] [4] Quantum Software
The company maintains the Accenture-Microsoft alliance to combine Accenture's consulting with Microsoft's scalable cloud and mobile technologies. [5] The name Avanade is a portmanteau between avenue and promenade. [6] Pamela Maynard took over from Adam Warby as CEO beginning on September 1, 2019. [7]
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