Accenture's B'lore Lab to focus on SOA

Accenture Technology Labs, the technology research and development (R&D) organisation within Accenture is on a drive to make its Bangalore R&D lab a central provider of service-oriented architecture (SOA) in IT infrastructure, collaborative software designs and performance engineering for clients across the globe.

The company presently has four technology labs located at Chicago and Silicon Valley in the US, Sophia Antipolis in France and at Bangalore.

Accenture will be piloting its innovations from all labs directly with delivery teams located in Bangalore before rolling them out to some 40 Accenture delivery centers globally.

In India, Accenture's delivery centres are located in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai.

For expanding its operations in Bangalore, it is planning to raise headcount from around 40-100 employees in the next year and half. Globally, the technology labs employ over 180 R&D professionals.

"We have over 10 pilot innovations being tested at our Bangalore lab as of now and a tremendous expansion in terms of innovations and employee count are set to happen in the near future," said Lin Chase, senior vice president, technology R&D India.

Recent projects in the Bangalore lab for Accenture include global communications accelerator, repository navigation tool and virtual collaborative software design among others.

Global communications accelerator which is a collaboration toolset developed by Accenture Technology Labs in tandem with the India delivery center has been built to enable better teamwork and communication between remote project teams.

Chase opined that the Indian lab could see a lot of R&D concentration being put into SOA. One of the projects taken up by the Bangalore lab is a study on the impact of SOAs on IT infrastructure, including its performance, manageability and security vulnerabilities.