Harness the power of innovation to improve business performance

Imagine the possibilitiesThe Solutions Showcase builds prototype solutions that transform concepts into real-world applications, enabling firsthand experience of cutting-edge technological advancements.

Custom workshops and briefings are available in a variety of formats to help businesses and governments envision how to leverage ground-breaking technologies to maximize IT investments, address current business challenges and plan for future growth.

Custom workshops leverage state-of-the-art innovation centers and bring together leading business and technology experts from Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft to facilitate visioning sessions around your business’ goals and unique challenges.

See demonstrations of our industry-specific and cross-industry offerings covering topics such as:

• How to deploy a digital marketing strategy in the retail and financial services markets.

• How to use Cloud Computing to leverage technology more efficiently and effectively across an organization—from desktop transformation to information management.

• How to take advantage of the latest mobile technologies to create engaging user experiences.

Build the future of your businessReady to make the future now? Contact the Solutions Showcase team at SolutionsShowcaseatMicrosoft@avanade.com for more information about solution topics or to request a customized workshop or briefing.

About our allianceEach of the three companies brings its own strengths. Combined, they create an unmatched set of resources to help clients use Microsoft technologies innovatively to improve business performance.

Accenture: Extensive industry and technical knowledge, strategic insights and implementation experience

Avanade: Deep expertise in Microsoft solutions, methodologies and frameworks

Microsoft: Technology and product expertise

The Solutions Showcase is built on the longstanding, strong relationship between the three companies, and aims to accelerate the development of business solutions to benefit their mutual clients.

For Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft, innovation is the lifeblood of our business. The power of our alliance drives how we help clients with diverse technology needs across many industries around the world.

Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft jointly operate the Solutions Showcase to highlight the possibilities created by our exclusive combination of expertise and technology.

The Solutions Showcase is focused on addressing the specific issues that businesses and governments face, formulating answers to complex problems and seeding new ideas and opportunities.

Whether your enterprise seeks to develop and execute a cloud computing strategy, leverage enterprise data to drive better decision-making or create a sound connected commerce platform that truly connects all facets of your business, the Solutions Showcase is the place to start.

The Solutions Showcase leads the development of innovative approaches and fosters collaboration to address today’s most pressing technology challenges and opportunities.

Accenture and Avanade have collaborated with Microsoft to create a comprehensive workforce collaboration solution that addresses productivity, infrastructure management and information security challenges. This solution takes a fresh look at how to improve workforce collaboration in terms of specific user groups supported, different computing and communication devices needed and the types of end-user services and infrastructure required to achieve seamless collaboration. This business solution and other pre-built solutions and toolsets can be experienced first-hand through the Solutions Showcase.

Microsoft's state-of-the-art Executive Briefing Center in Redmond, Washington offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn about and experience the latest Microsoft technologies. One- and two-day custom workshops provide a stimulating environment to engage in dialogue around new technologies and develop innovative solutions.

View the latest in Microsoft mobile technology—immersive and rich graphical user experiences and multi-functional applications—leveraging multiple platforms, including Windows Azure. Understand Microsoft's mobility story within the enterprise, from 3.8 inch Smartphones to 10 inch enterprise slate devices and even larger Windows 7 touch displays, all with applications using the same Silverlight development platform.

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About AvanadeAvanade provides business technology solutions and managed services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft® technologies to help customers realize results. Our people have helped thousands of organizations in all industries improve business agility, employee productivity and customer loyalty. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

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