Accenture Moving NSF Accounting To Cloud Computing
February 22, 2013
Grazed from GovConWire. Author: Ross Wilkers.
Accenture Federal Services has won a five-year, $24.4 million contract to transition the U.S. National Science Foundation’s financial accounting system to a cloud computing environment. The company plans to host the agency’s 25-year old system in a shared service environment and use commercial-off-the-shelf software for the project, Accenture said Thursday.
NSF managed and dispersed $5.72 billion in funding for research and related activities last year for fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences.
Formed in 1950, NSF contributes funding for nearly 20 percent of federally-supported research at colleges and universities…
“Today, the way federal agencies process and manage their financial information can have a significant impact on their ability to deliver on their mission”, said Ed Meehan, head of Accenture’s civilian agencies portfolio…
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