Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company serving a broad range of private- and public-sector entities, including many of the world’s most successful corporations. In such a large, knowledge-driven organization, the ability for people to connect with one another is a concrete business benefit. Accenture built a social computing solution on Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 because of its familiarity and inclusion of the same basic features the company needed, therefore saving additional software costs.

The resulting solution, dubbed Accenture People, enables users to:

• Search for and find expert colleagues in a fraction of the time it would take using e-mail or other methods.
• Build community based on social connections and shared interests, bringing new employees up to speed faster and giving everyone a sense of common purpose.
• Share information and knowledge with secure blogs, wikis, and My Sites.