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CUSTOM-MADE SOLUTIONS: (From left) Mr Sandeep Arora, Lead Executive, Accenture Technology, India; Mr Don Grantham, Executive Vice-President, Global Sales and Services, Sun Microsystems; and Mr Alastair MacWilson, Managing Director, Accenture Global Security Practice; at a press conference in Bangalore on Wednesday. - G.R.N. Somashekar

Bangalore March 28 Accenture and Sun Microsystems have joined hands to set up an innovation centre in Bangalore for Sun solutions. The Accenture Innovation Centre for Sun solutions would be a global hub for next-generation solutions based on Sun's technologies, officials of both companies said.

Mr Alastair MacWilson, Managing Director, Accenture Global Security Practice said the centre would be dedicated to creation of custom solutions for clients as well as development of industrialised, repeatable and secure identity-management and service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based solutions.

The centre, staffed with both Sun and Accenture employees, would help develop solutions and reusable components utilising Sun's software suite and Solaris Operating System that would cater to specific market needs (secure SOA, security for governments and subscriber management for telecommunications), Mr MacWilson said.

Further, Mr MacWilson said that the company saw a huge pipeline of projects where the solutions developed at the India innovation centre would be deployed.

Accenture had recently announced investment of $450 million in R&D, training, and building industry-based solutions in the SOA area.

In the past four months, Accenture has ramped up its Innovation Centre for Sun Solutions to about 100 people, said Mr Sandeep Arora, Lead Executive, Accenture Delivery Centre for Technology, India.

"The India delivery centres have emerged as a hub for innovation within Accenture, be it in terms of developing industry solutions or asset engineering work," he said.

Mr Don Grantham, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Services, Sun Microsystems said, "Enterprises across the world are looking to open source and open standards as they architect for Web 2.0 and the next evolution of SOAs."

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