
Accenture has today signed a multi-year agreement with mining company Anglo American. The firm will provide application development and management services.
The agreement also requires Accenture to provide information technology functional consulting and development services to design, build and test, applications in addition to ongoing application maintenance and support.
“Consolidating global application development and management services will enable Anglo American to realise IT synergies and reduce application development and management costs,“ said Rik Vervisch, senior executive in Accenture“™s mining industry group. “We look forward to helping Anglo American build and maintain a high performance application suite to help its strategic programmes over the coming years.“