Accenture Plc and Adchemy Teams to Create Enterprise-Ready Digital Marketing Platform...

Accenture Plc and Adchemy Teams to Create Enterprise-Ready Digital Marketing Platform

Accenture Plc and Adchemy, a company in audience relationship management (ARM), announced that they have formed a global alliance to help large companies and their agency partners build more effective digital experiences with their customers. The alliance will give clients a new way to identify, engage and acquire customers. As part of the alliance agreement, Accenture has taken a minority equity stake in Adchemy and Tim Breene, Accenture`s senior managing director of Strategic Initiatives, has joined Adchemy`s Board of Directors.

http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/keyDevelopments?symbol=ACN

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MS Application Architecture Guide...

Looking for an "Application Architecture Guide" that is intended to help solution architects/designers design and build effective, high quality applications?

Microsoft has released 2nd edition of Microsoft Application Architecture guide @
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ce40e4e1-9838-4c89-a197-a373b2a60df2

This guide helps you to:
1 Understand the underlying architecture and design principles and patterns for developing successful solutions on the Microsoft platform and the .NET Framework.
2 Identify appropriate strategies and design patterns that will help you design your solution's layers, components, and services.
3 Identify and address the key engineering decision points for your solution.
4 Identify and address the key quality attributes and crosscutting concerns for your solution.
5 Create a candidate baseline architecture for your solution.
6 Choose the right technologies for your solution.
7 Identify patterns & practices solution assets and further guidance that will help you to implement your solution.

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Visual Studio 2010 Professional download and .NET Framework 4 Training kit...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Ready to Download...

VS 2010 Professional version-
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a80dfb5d-51c6-4778-8656-a9ff29d3a132&displaylang=en

There's a training available for Preview as well here on MSDN site -
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en

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Accenture LLP receives P&G Supplier Excellence Award...

Accenture LLP receives a "Supplier excellence award" from P&G for FY 2009 yesterday night for consistently performing against expectations for service delivery, innovation and being a great business partner. One of the 55 suppliers that received an award among P&G’s 80,000 suppliers and the only one in our IT field besides HP beating our competitors who are not listed anywhere :)

http://www.pg.com/news/supplier_awards_release_final.shtml

Cheers - time to celebrate :) - DJ