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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 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!

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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?

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

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/6a40a8b7-77e4-2d39-6c0...).

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 .

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

Thanks :) here's the link: https://retool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/

Awesome thx !

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

Thanks :)

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

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