Rio Tinto Teams with Accenture to Move to Ground Breaking “As-a-Service” Model in the Cloud
April 12 2015 - 11:39PM
Business Wire
Rio Tinto, a global diversified mining company, will move to a
ground breaking information systems and technology (IS&T)
delivery model, partnering with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) to shape and
deliver the transformation. The new model will migrate core
enterprise IS&T systems to an “As-a-Service” solution based in
the cloud. It also incorporates consumption based pricing to ensure
costs are fully flexible and in line with business demand.
The programme will include the modernisation of the company’s
existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and Information
Management (IM) platforms, consolidating and hosting these
applications in the public cloud. Under the terms of the agreement,
Accenture will also manage the maintenance and upgrade of this
application landscape and related infrastructure and transform the
global service desk and site support functions. Managed via the
Accenture Cloud Platform, and adopting a public cloud first policy,
the solution will accelerate Rio Tinto’s journey towards a truly
digital business.
Rio Tinto expects to directly benefit from significant cost
savings through increased business agility and cost flexibility
inherent in cloud services, and from continued lower infrastructure
prices in line with cloud economic trends. The solution is based on
a platform for innovation - including a co-located innovation
centre in Singapore – and a long-term commitment to partnering.
“Rio Tinto is on an ambitious journey to a world-class IS&T
delivery model that is innovative, adaptable and cost-effective,
fully supporting our business priorities and group operating
model,” said Rio Tinto Group CIO Simon Benney. “We selected
Accenture to help us manage this transformation based on its global
delivery capabilities, its vision for the intelligent business
cloud and its ability to support our digital transformation
programme.”
“This project redefines the delivery of application and
infrastructure services,” said Pierre Nanterme, chairman and CEO,
Accenture. “This solution will allow Rio Tinto to smartly connect
its infrastructure, software applications, data and operations
capabilities in order to become an agile, intelligent, digital
business that can better navigate the commodities cycles.”
About Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining group that focuses on
finding, mining and processing the Earth’s mineral resources. Rio
Tinto’s major products are aluminium, copper, diamonds, gold,
industrial minerals (borates, titanium dioxide and salt), iron ore,
thermal and metallurgical coal and uranium. Activities span the
world and are strongly represented in Australia and North America,
and also have significant businesses in Asia, Europe, Africa and
South America.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services
and outsourcing company, with more than 323,000 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$30.0 billion for the fiscal
year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
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