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Hello! Author here - I had a few friends who worked at Accenture in the past, and always wondered what they do...and why they're worth so much. I dug in (we did

Hello! Author here - I had a few friends who worked at Accenture in the past, and always wondered what they do...and why they're worth so much. I dug in (we did the same for Salesforce and SAP previously on HN) and found...some weird stuff. Accenture has a pretty wild story, from being decently early on in computers to a contentious company split, and now to a massive publicly traded consulting firm. Hope you like it!

honkdaddy 5y ago
I thought it was a great piece! Interesting, succinct, and well sourced.
- gagejustins 5y ago
  Thanks :)
ObserverNeutral 5y ago
How did you find the piece was shared in here in such a fast manner?
dlojudice 5y ago
Interesting content. But I wonder what the purpose of this type of content is related to Retool? Do you see these types of companies as threats or competitors?
- gagejustins 5y ago
  We're just focused on writing content that's interesting to developers, and somewhat related to internal tools :)
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eddywebs 5y ago
Amazing article ! Mind sharing the one on Salesforce? Cant find it on retool
- gagejustins 5y ago
  Thanks :) here's the link: https://retool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/ https://retool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/
  - eddywebs 5y ago
    Awesome thx !
rchaud 5y ago
Good article, especially the bit with the Georgia contract. That went a bit deeper in the details, which I appreciated. A standard description of tech consultancies would have been too broad and unlikely to include info people didn't already know .
wahooligan 5y ago
Seconding the other comments, this was a great write up. One data point for you, you can see how much Accenture got from the US Federal Government on USAspending.gov. ~2B over the past 12 months (source: https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/6a40a8b7-77e4-2d39-6c0a-2a43bb3f1f94-C/latest https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/6a40a8b7-77e4-2d39-6c0...).

honkdaddy 5y ago

I thought it was a great piece! Interesting, succinct, and well sourced.

gagejustins 5y ago
Thanks :)

ObserverNeutral 5y ago

How did you find the piece was shared in here in such a fast manner?

dlojudice 5y ago

Interesting content. But I wonder what the purpose of this type of content is related to Retool? Do you see these types of companies as threats or competitors?

gagejustins 5y ago
We're just focused on writing content that's interesting to developers, and somewhat related to internal tools :)

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eddywebs 5y ago

Amazing article ! Mind sharing the one on Salesforce? Cant find it on retool

gagejustins 5y ago
Thanks :) here's the link: https://retool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/ https://retool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/
- eddywebs 5y ago
  Awesome thx !

rchaud 5y ago

Good article, especially the bit with the Georgia contract. That went a bit deeper in the details, which I appreciated. A standard description of tech consultancies would have been too broad and unlikely to include info people didn't already know .

wahooligan 5y ago

Seconding the other comments, this was a great write up. One data point for you, you can see how much Accenture got from the US Federal Government on USAspending.gov. ~2B over the past 12 months (source: https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/6a40a8b7-77e4-2d39-6c0a-2a43bb3f1f94-C/latest https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/6a40a8b7-77e4-2d39-6c0...).