[oneplane]

So you are not hiding behind contracts if something is obviously wrong? Because that is the statement that is being made here. Has nothing to do with ads or nationality.

All we know about accenture around here (which is not the USA) is that they are good at covering their ass and the actual users of the stuff they produce are never happy.

[Cthulhu_]

That's one of the problems with Accenture and consultancy companies as a whole; they will build it, but they will never own or run it. The team(s) assigned to a project will learn just about enough about the domain to be able to fulfill the contract, but they won't be around ten years later to see how it panned out (if they're around three years later that's already an achievement).

Source: I used to work for a consultancy company. Might do so again, the work is more diverse and the pay and perks are much better than 'regular' companies.

[oneplane]

And the worst part is that you can have a massive project and have it measured as a success but the users are still having a bad day every time they have to use the result of the project.

It doesn't matter a whole lot if the contract was successful or the managers got their bonus for on-time delivery or the budget forecasts were correct, a crap product is a crap product.