{
  "id": 9635292,
  "title": "Accenture: The firm that kept rebuilding itself to keep building Singapore",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/accenture-the-firm-that-kept-rebuilding-itself-to-keep-building",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-24T22:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Business Times - Singapore",
    "slug": "the-business-times-singapore",
    "url": "https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/bt50/accenture-firm-kept-rebuilding-itself-keep-building-singapore"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "For five decades, Accenture has continuously reinvented itself to provide end-to-end technology solutions to some of Singapore's essential systems, such as managing home loans, healthcare savings, and retirement payouts. The Central Provident Fund (CPF) digital platform, which serves millions of citizens and permanent residents, is one of the most comprehensive national financial infrastructures in the world. Accenture has been instrumental in transforming the legacy environment of the CPF digital platform into a mobile-first experience, streamlining over 1,000 complex web pages into 320 intuitive guides. With a clear promise to provide personalized experiences, Accenture has helped Singaporeans navigate financial milestones more easily. Over its five-decade journey, Accenture has evolved from a small team automating accounting systems to a firm that reshapes enterprise technology and digital transformation across the region. Its capabilities are now embedded in Singapore's public services, financial sector, and national digital infrastructure. In the dot-com era, Accenture helped design a digital bank before the term even existed, marking a significant turning point in its relationship with the client. More recently, Accenture has supported the development of Singapore's National Electronic Health Record (NEHR), a system that connects patients' health information across healthcare providers to support better coordinated care.",
  "summary": "Five decades of reinventing itself has made Accenture the end-to-end technology partner behind some of the systems the nation uses every day",
  "key_points": [
    "Accenture has reinvented itself for 50 years to serve Singapore's essential systems.",
    "Accenture transformed CPF digital platform into mobile-first experience, streamlining 1,000 pages.",
    "Accenture developed Singapore's National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) system."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}