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.

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