Accenture Releases Enhanced Version of Accenture Cloud Platform
October 06 2015 - 8:03AM
Business Wire
Latest release eases migration of enterprise
workload to the cloud with new and enhanced features that improve
cost-efficiency, agility, governance and control of cloud
applications
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has released a new and enhanced version of
the Accenture Cloud Platform that is designed to help organizations
increase the operating efficiency, cost structure, governance and
control of their cloud applications. They can also 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 cloud.
The Accenture Cloud Platform is a multi-cloud management
platform that enables organizations to centrally manage all of
their enterprise cloud resources – public and private – and
automate and accelerate the delivery of cloud solutions. An open,
scalable technical cloud platform that allows services to be ramped
up or down as needed, the platform manages and integrates with
technology from leading global cloud providers including Amazon Web
Services and Microsoft, among others.
The latest release of the Accenture Cloud Platform is designed
to help organizations:
- reduce the time to implement new
cloud solutions – It increases the pace of development and
deployment of new business solutions, while decreasing overall time
and cost to migrate legacy workloads to the public cloud.
- improve the cost efficiency and
optimization of IT – It enhances resource usage to help reduce
operational costs and improve ROI by providing better consumption
and cost-management, enabling organizations to reduce their overall
cloud costs by as much as 40 percent; and
- enhance the governance and control
of cloud management – It centralizes cloud governance and
control with analytics, cost controls and policy management that
provide enhanced visibility, accountability and compliance without
additional overhead costs.
“Organizations of all sizes are increasingly adopting
As-a-Service operating models as they look for greater operational
agility, and doing so requires the right cloud management tools,”
said Jack Sepple, group technology officer & senior managing
director, Cloud and Security at Accenture. “This release of the
Accenture Cloud Platform improves organizational capabilities to
manage cloud sprawl, reducing the time needed to deploy cloud
resources while providing a greater ability to innovate and
integrate new solutions into the cloud quicker than ever.”
Key features of the new release of the Accenture Cloud Platform
that are available now, or slated to go live by November of this
year, include:
- Cloud mover – Provides a simple
way to request and automate virtual-machine migration, reducing the
time to migrate legacy workloads from days or weeks to just
minutes; reducing operating costs compared with running in
traditional datacenters with outsourced IT.
- Cross cloud transparency – Lets
users create and manage their own resource “tags” to organize data,
resulting in more control of their data resources, enabling faster
growth of their cloud footprint across clouds without the
associated transparency, compliance and support issues that may
arise.
- ServiceNow integration –
Integrates with ServiceNow, giving users a fully integrated
self-service IT service management (ITSM) experience. Providing
advanced governance capabilities; automation; faster speed of
service delivery; and, through improved self-service, a possible
personnel costs reduction of as much as 25 percent.
Select enhanced features of the new release of the Accenture
Cloud Platform improve cloud economics and include:
- Cloud consumption control –
Offers visibility into cost and utilization trends, while
supporting governance, by setting quotas and limits on resources
and budgets. For instance, users can reduce their development and
test resources by up to 30 percent by turning them off during
weekends and other low-usage periods.
- Cloud bill management – Lets
users view their total bill from any of their cloud providers by
providing consolidated billing from cloud providers, reducing the
manual process of compiling and standardizing bills from multiple
providers – resulting in a reduction of expenses by as much as
30-40 percent.
The Accenture Cloud Platform has a global provider and data
center footprint on six continents as well as strategic
relationships with more than 150 alliance partners. Accenture has
worked with hundreds of enterprise clients, using the platform to
deliver and deploy thousands of cloud projects. For more
information on the Accenture Cloud Platform, visit
www.accenture.com/us-en/cloud-platform.
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.
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