Avanade

Avanade Inc., a subsidiary of Accenture plc., is a multinational IT consulting and software company that develops business software from a Microsoft products platform. Founded on April 4, 2000, Avanade is atypical amongst many systems integrators such as IBM and HP in that Avanade's services are specialized to the Microsoft software platform. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company had 9700 employees in 34 countries at the close of its fiscal year 2009.