What's Accenture? (2020)

Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by gagejustins on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:41AM (#26969900)

Hello! Author here - I had a few friends who worked at Accenture in the past, and always wondered what they do...and why they're worth so much. I dug in (we did the same for Salesforce and SAP previously on HN) and found...some weird stuff. Accenture has a pretty wild story, from being decently early on in computers to a contentious company split, and now to a massive publicly traded consulting firm. Hope you like it!

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Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by dlojudice on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:00AM (#26970153)

Interesting content. But I wonder what the purpose of this type of content is related to Retool? Do you see these types of companies as threats or competitors?

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Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by gagejustins on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:09AM (#26970267)

We're just focused on writing content that's interesting to developers, and somewhat related to internal tools :)

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Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by wahooligan on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:34PM (#26971987)

Seconding the other comments, this was a great write up.

One data point for you, you can see how much Accenture got from the US Federal Government on USAspending.gov. ~2B over the past 12 months (source: https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/6a40a8b7-77e4-2d39-6c0...).

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Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by rchaud on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:51PM (#26971506)

Good article, especially the bit with the Georgia contract. That went a bit deeper in the details, which I appreciated. A standard description of tech consultancies would have been too broad and unlikely to include info people didn't already know .

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Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by eddywebs on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:23AM (#26970419)

Amazing article ! Mind sharing the one on Salesforce? Cant find it on retool

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Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by gagejustins on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:29AM (#26970499)

Thanks :) here's the link: https://retool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/

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Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by eddywebs on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:51AM (#26981901)

Awesome thx !

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Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by honkdaddy on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:49AM (#26970008)

I thought it was a great piece! Interesting, succinct, and well sourced.

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Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by gagejustins on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:09AM (#26970269)

Thanks :)

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Re:What's Accenture? (2020) by ObserverNeutral on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @10:57AM (#26970098)

How did you find the piece was shared in here in such a fast manner?

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