International consumer goods company, Henkel, has chosen Accenture to provide application development and maintenance services in Europe and North America under a seven-year application outsourcing contract.

Under the terms of the agreement, Henkel will outsource to Accenture its application development and maintenance activities, including all SAP applications, business intelligence solutions, customer relationship management programs and Web applications.

Accenture will provide the services through one of its Global Delivery Network centres in Bangalore, India.

Dr. Peter Wroblowski, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Henkel, commented, “We are delighted to have reached a solution with Accenture that is based on state-of-the-art technologies and work methods and allows us to satisfy the demands of our IT users even more efficiently and cost-effectively.”