Accenture to Provide Application Development and Management Services to Anglo American

Anglo American, one of the world's largest mining companies, recently announced that Accenture (News - Alert) will be providing the company application development and management services.

The officials from Anglo American said in a statement that Accenture's mining industry group has signed a multi-year agreement to manage Anglo American's commercial applications across group functions and its platinum, copper, nickel, iron ore, thermal coal and metallurgical coal commodities business. Moreover, Accenture will also provide IT functional consulting and development services to design, build and test applications in addition to ongoing application maintenance and support.

"Consolidating global application development and management services will enable Anglo American to realize IT synergies and reduce application development and management costs,” Rik Vervisch, senior executive in Accenture's mining industry group, said in a statement.  We look forward to helping Anglo American build and maintain a high performance application suite to help its strategic programs over the coming years."

With Accenture’s solution, Anglo American expects to improve its service reliability, and simplify and rationalize the existing supplier landscape supporting Anglo American's application portfolio.

Recently, TMC (News - Alert) reported that officials at Pebble Mine, the joint venture of Canada–based Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. and Anglo American PLC, have decided to resume work, despite passage of a ballot initiative aimed at stopping the controversial mine. Unofficial results released by southwest Alaska's Lake and Peninsula Borough late Monday showed a vote of 280–246 in favor of a ban on large–scale resource extraction activity, including mining, that would destroy or degrade salmon habitat. The measure was targeted at Pebble Mine, which opponents fear could fundamentally change the landscape and disrupt, if not destroy, a way of life in rural Alaska and threaten one of the world's premier salmon fisheries. The mine would be directly above Iliamna Lake, the largest producer of sockeye salmon in the world. Critics have said the potential footprint of the project could cover 15 square miles, with an open pit and network of roads and power lines.

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Edited by Rich Steeves