Accenture Opens Innovation Center for Situational Awareness in Singapore
January 20 2020 - 7:59PM
Business Wire
Center serves as hub for collaborative
development of advanced solutions to help public safety
organizations protect their citizens
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has opened a global innovation center for
situational awareness in Singapore to help public safety
organizations in Asia Pacific and around the world develop
solutions to anticipate and respond to threat and risk to their
citizens, whilst maintaining their trust and confidence.
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A vibrant collaborative environment, the center is designed to
encourage breakthrough thinking between Accenture clients, the
center’s professionals, and digital innovators from the public and
private sectors. The goal is to enable public safety organizations
to make more informed decisions and deliver better services and
public safety outcomes to the citizens and communities they
serve.
This is Accenture’s first innovation center dedicated to
situational awareness technologies and will develop assets to
enable clients to responsibly deploy innovative technologies such
as artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things,
blockchain, augmented reality and virtual reality.
At the center, Accenture will collaborate with leading
technology companies including analytics software provider SAS – a
strategic technology partner to the center — to co-develop
situational-awareness solutions that responsibly support the
missions and operations of public safety agencies. Technology
specialists will apply design thinking methodologies to resolve the
challenges faced by public safety agencies, transforming agency
data into real-time intelligence through situational awareness
solutions powered by the latest analytics and AI technologies.
“Improving situational awareness is crucial for public safety
agencies to better anticipate threat, risk and harm, allowing them
to respond to public safety-related incidents faster and in a more
informed way,” said James Slessor, who leads Accenture’s Public
Safety business globally. “By responsibly using innovative
technologies, these agencies can better anticipate public safety
incidents, improve the safety of first responders, and deliver
services to citizens and communities more effectively.”
The center, located within Accenture’s office at South Beach
Road, is supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board
(EDB) “Accenture and Singapore enjoy a strong partnership in
developing systems, infrastructure and services that are critical
to public safety,” said Dawn Lim, Director of Commercial and
Professional Services, EDB. “We are pleased that Accenture has
chosen Singapore as the location for its first innovation center
dedicated to situational awareness technologies and we look forward
to working with other like-minded companies to accelerate the
innovation and commercialisation of next-generation public safety
systems.”
“As Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative reshapes the delivery of
public services and citizens’ experience of dealing with the
government, digitization has become increasingly relevant to the
core of our clients’ operations,” said Wee Wei Ng, who leads
Accenture’s Health & Public Service practice in Singapore. “Our
new center provides a space for government agencies to collaborate
with each other and with the private sector to apply innovations
that will ultimately increase their situational awareness and
accelerate their digital transformation journeys.”
Learn more about the Innovation Center for Situational Awareness
in Singapore
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 505,000 people
serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
at www.accenture.com.
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Junaidah Dahlan Accenture +65 6410 8362
junaidah.dahlan@accenture.com
Joe Doyle Accenture Health & Public Service +353 87 2507583
joe.x.doyle@accenture.com
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