trying to become digital operations<\/a>. Both of these are targets for the new project.<\/p>\nTen years after the iPhone debuted, there are more in-house iOS programmers and more mobile development projects than ever before, but companies have struggled to take advantage of iOS to build digital tools to truly transform organizations and how they operate, according to Susan Prescott, VP for apps, markets and services at Apple.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen an increase in development efforts within companies. In fact, in the last three years, the number of in-house iOS developers has doubled,\u201d she said. \u201cSo the demand is definitely there, but enterprises still need great partners to reinvent workflows and tap into backend systems.\u201d<\/p>\n
She adds, \u201cThis partnership with Accenture is about taking that further. What\u2019s really exciting is that this isn\u2019t just about optimizing existing apps and business processes \u2014 it\u2019s about designing new apps and experiences using new technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Apple is looking to work directly with Accenture and enterprise customers to help them dig into enterprise data, and find new workflows that they have never considered before. This isn\u2019t unlike what it has been doing (and continues to do) with IBM, but Apple says it\u2019s going to have a seat at the table with Accenture personnel and share their expertise around iOS to help solve unique enterprise problems \u2014 and that is a big difference with this project.<\/p>\n
As for Accenture, Gene Reznick, senior managing director for technology ecosystem and ventures for the firm, says they are looking to capitalize on some specific areas with this partnership including helping to create \u201cengaging user experiences.\u201d They hope to improve how organizations interact with customers in a digital way, something that continues to elude many companies. Secondly, they want to make that experience as meaningful as possible by building connections to relevant back-end systems and surfacing helpful data.<\/p>\n
While this could take many forms, they see exploiting the burgeoning area of Internet of Things, where they could build iOS applications to help monitor large industrial machines or other complex operations from an iPad or iPhone. They could supplement this idea by building augmented reality applications with Apple\u2019s AR development toolset, ARKit to help with training or repair assistance right on the iOS device.<\/p>\n
For starters, the teams will work together in San Francisco, but the hope is that over time, they will expand the project and build additional teams at some subset of the 30 Accenture Studios located throughout the world.<\/p>\n
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