Accenture has received a new multi-year agreement from Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America to provide a range of information technology (IT) services under a strategic outsourcing contract.

Accenture said that the agreement is designed to improve efficiency and effectiveness of IT functions at Takeda by transforming processes and increasing automation using its global delivery network centres in New Delhi and Bangalore, and other Accenture and Takeda facilities in the US.

Under terms of the agreement, Accenture will provide Takeda with application and infrastructure outsourcing services.

The application outsourcing services include development, testing, and maintenance of all applications supporting Takeda’s operations, while infrastructure outsourcing services include service desk management, data centre management, server and storage management, end-user computing, and network management.

The financial terms of the multi-year contract were not disclosed.