The Accenture & Cisco Business Group is a cross-company initiative for the purpose of supporting sales, marketing, customer engagement, and solution development by Accenture and Cisco. The group will target clients in all sectors, ranging from communications, manufacturing, health care, financial services, resources and energy to government and social infrastructure.
“In current economic times businesses in South Africa are increasingly facing pressing challenges as well as many opportunities, subsequently the need to optimise IT costs, business and organisational efficiency is at the top of the agenda. The Accenture & Cisco strategic relationship will enable us to offer all-round services to our clients through a single point of contact, leverage both companies’ cross-industry expertise, and strengthen our capability to enhance client value and experience.”, William Mzimba, chief executive of Accenture South Africa
Accenture and Cisco have expanded the global relationship to help South African organisations take advantage of IT as a strategic asset to drive business agility, reduce costs, increase revenue and deliver superior customer service.
The Accenture & Cisco Business Group will provide clients with more effective solutions and services through close collaboration between Accenture and Cisco professionals from around the world. The solutions focus on data centre and network transformation.
“The Accenture & Cisco Business Group brings complete and integrated value-based IT solutions for our customers in South Africa and will enable them to successfully deliver on their strategy by creating sustainable competitive advantage, significantly improving their productivity and reducing cost. Our strategic relationship with Accenture will help public and private sector across South Africa to move seamlessly to a more virtualised environment, using the network as the platform to enable access to key business processes and applications anytime, anywhere, from any device.”, said David Meads, general manager for Cisco, South Africa.
