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'Avanade, Inc.' is a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft which was founded on April 4 2000. The company is a global IT consulting company that specializes in solutions using Microsoft enterprise technology. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company had 3,200 employees in 22 countries at the close of its fiscal year 2006. Avanade has 2,000 badged staff located offshore in India and the Philippines who work in Accenture-managed delivery centers as part of its global delivery network spanning six cities in India and one in the Philippines.^[1]

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History

Services

References

External links

History

Avanade was formed in April 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft. Ownership was initially split 50:50 between the two founding companies, however, in 2001 Accenture increased its ownership to become the majority owner and Avanade became a subsidiary of Accenture.^[2]
Through the joint venture, Accenture and Microsoft looked to enter what they perceived to be a largely untapped market for Microsoft-focused consulting services for companies in the Fortune 1000.^{[3] [4]}
To-date, Avanade has acquired two other firms:

★ In 2003, Avanade acquired St. Louis-based G.A. Sullivan.^[5]

★ In 2005, Avanade acquired Chicago-based en’tegrate.^[6]
On July 3rd, 2007, Avanade was cited as the developer of the Colorado State Titling and Registration System (CSTARS) in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. The articles reported that the system, which had taken over 7 years to develop at a cost of about $10 million, was “unplugged in April, just seven months after it was launched”. The report went on to say “The project was poorly structured, with ‘adversarial’ relationships and ‘ineffective’ management” and that “it could take 18 months and an unknown amount of money to relaunch it” if the State continued to employ Avanade.^[7]

Services

Avanade services center around three primary areas: application development and integration with the Microsoft .NET platform, infrastructure services aimed at streamlining, upgrading, and securing customer infrastructure investments, and lastly, delivering packaged ERP and CRM solutions, such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Avanade sells services across a range of IT and business areas, including:

★ Application Portfolio Transformation

★ Application Management

★ Application Renewal

★ Application Development

★ Mobile Applications

★ Enterprise Integration

★ Business Intelligence and Performance Management

★ Customer Relationship Management

★ Enterprise Resource Planning

★ Enterprise Collaboration

★ Infrastructure

★ Platform Migration

★ Service-oriented architecture

★ Microsoft for SAP as IT platform

References

1. Avanade Annual Report 2006. SEC EDGAR website
2. Software Notebook: A Microsoft joint venture gets big, quietly. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. October 2, 2006.
3. Microsoft, Andersen team up. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. March 14, 2000.
4. Microsoft teams up with Andersen. Seattle Times. March 14, 2000.
5. Microsoft joint venture buys Midwest consulting and software developer. Puget Sound Business Journal. May 27, 2003.
6. Avanade acquires Chicago company. Puget Sound Business Journal. March 2, 2005.
7. Computer system for vehicle titles a wreck, study finds. Denver Post. July 3, 2007. million vehicle registration deal assailed. Rocky Mountain News. July 3, 2007.

External links

★ Avanade's Website www.avanade.com

★ The Avanade Advisor

★ Avanade Inc. Fact Sheet as listed on Hoover's