Accenture AWS Business Group will deliver
application migration, development and management services and
solutions
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced the formation of a
business group to help clients more quickly move their business to
the cloud. The Accenture AWS Business Group brings together
dedicated professionals from each company with expertise in cloud
solutions architecture and development, marketing, sales, and
business development. The business group will offer integrated
consulting and technology solutions designed to help enterprise
clients take greater advantage of the flexibility and economics of
an “as-a-service” operating model where IT and business services
are delivered on-demand, via the AWS Cloud.
Large enterprises are under pressure to innovate faster than
ever, drive down costs, and deliver increased value to their
organizations through more responsive and flexible IT. The
Accenture AWS Business Group was established to help organizations
evolve long-established internal processes, reorganize internal IT
teams, re-tool legacy solutions, and effectively extract value from
the data their businesses are collecting. The business group will
develop and deliver a suite of services and solutions that unify
business process re-engineering, application migration services,
architecture design and application development for the AWS Cloud
so enterprise clients can accelerate innovation, enter new markets,
and ultimately achieve improved business results.
Accenture and AWS plan to invest significant resources over
multiple years in the development of new services and technology
solutions including application migration and development,
cloud-based enterprise applications, and analytics and Big Data
solutions. The companies are committed to train an additional 1,000
Accenture professionals and certify 500 Accenture professionals on
the AWS Cloud in the first year, and support go-to-market
activities. Employees dedicated to the Accenture AWS Business Group
will be equipped with the latest AWS
technologies, best-in-class methodologies, highly automated
tools for application migration, and software-as-a-service
applications for big data management and analytics.
“Accenture is already a market leader in cloud and the formation
of the Accenture AWS Business Group is a key part of our Accenture
Cloud First agenda. Cloud is increasingly becoming a starting point
with our clients for their enterprise solutions,” said Omar Abbosh,
Chief Strategy Officer, Accenture. “Whether our clients need to
innovate faster, create new services, or maximize value from their
investments, the Accenture AWS Business Group will help them get
there faster, with lower risk and with solutions optimized for
AWS.”
“We are working with more organizations than ever before who
have made the decision to transform their business by moving to the
AWS Cloud,” said Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Sales, Marketing,
and Support, Amazon Web Services. “The Accenture AWS Business Group
has been created to empower these organizations to rapidly achieve
the agility benefits of moving to AWS so they can eliminate the
undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing their IT infrastructure
and instead focus on adopting new IT operating models, addressing
new market opportunities, and growing their business, at the same
time they reduce their overall IT costs.”
Initially, the Accenture AWS Business Group will focus on two
main business areas, with plans to introduce additional solutions
in the future:
- Transformation Services Optimized for
AWS: The business group will provide services to clients to move
their existing applications to and develop new applications on AWS
quickly, economically, and securely. The services include cloud
strategy, organizational and architecture design, application
migration, refactoring, and new application development services. A
dedicated AWS application development and migration ‘factory’ will
automate processes to help businesses run more efficiently.
- Analytics and Big Data Services,
powered by AWS: Enterprise clients, especially those in regulated
industries such as healthcare and financial services, are
increasingly looking for more effective analytics-driven solutions.
The Accenture Insights Platform will be expanded to integrate AWS
data and analytics capabilities. This will allow customers with
compliance and regulatory requirements to better manage the
end-to-end data lifecycle from data migration, curation,
normalization, and analytics.
The business group will also explore the creation of new
services in high growth areas such as Internet of Things (IoT) and
Security on the AWS Cloud.
The formation of the Accenture AWS Business Group represents a
continued expansion of the relationship between Accenture and AWS,
who have been working together to support their clients in their
move to the cloud for nearly 10 years. In 2014, the two companies
collaborated on end-to-end cloud migration and management services
designed to help enterprise clients move from cloud pilots to
enterprise-wide deployments in the AWS Cloud. Notable clients who
have successfully migrated to AWS leveraging these services include
global broadcasting and content company Discovery Networks
International and Japanese public WiFi service provider Wire and
Wireless Co.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services
and outsourcing company, with more than 358,000 people serving
clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled
experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and
business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most
successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help
them become high-performance businesses and governments. The
company generated net revenues of US$31.0 billion for the fiscal
year ended Aug. 31, 2015. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
Accenture is a leader in helping organizations move to the cloud
to take advantage of a new era of service delivery and flexibility,
where applications, infrastructure and business processes are
brought together and delivered As-a-Service. Accenture’s Cloud
First agenda offers comprehensive, industry-focused cloud services
including strategy, implementation, migration and managed services,
and assets including the Accenture Cloud Platform that can drive
broader transformational programs for clients. Accenture has worked
on more than 13,000 cloud computing projects for clients, including
three-quarters of the Fortune Global 100, and has more than 18,000
professionals trained in cloud computing.
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services offers a robust, fully
featured technology infrastructure platform in the cloud comprised
of a broad set of compute, storage, database, analytics,
application, and deployment services from datacenter locations in
the U.S., Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, and
Singapore. More than a million customers, including fast-growing
startups, large enterprises, and government agencies across 190
countries, rely on AWS services to innovate quickly, lower IT costs
and scale applications globally. To learn more about AWS, visit
http://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The
company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon.
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