We have a dedicated team of people called the Services workforce who work on outsourcing engagements. These are long-term partnerships with clients for whom we manage and provide increasingly specialized business operations, such as finance and accounting, IT, applications development and maintenance, help desk services and HR. Within Enterprise Resource Planning, we deliver innovative application outsourcing solutions using SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and Siebel to help our clients achieve high performance. Accenture’s Application Outsourcing business provides a spectrum of services and flexible arrangements- teams can involve fewer than 100 people…and many with more than 1,000 people. Following are examples of some common application outsourcing scenarios that you could be involved with: Basic application management—Accenture manages both custom and packaged application software, including enterprise-wide software programs. Design, build, run—Accenture delivers a specific enterprise-wide software platform, including its architecture, configuration, design, programming and ongoing application run support. Comprehensive application development/management—Accenture provides a full scope of development, implementation and ongoing management services for new and existing applications and a comprehensive application portfolio.