Accenture Releases New Capabilities for Accenture Cloud Platform
September 27 2016 - 09:03AM
Business Wire
Latest release includes new capacity for
clients to optimize multi-cloud costs and new capabilities to drive
smoother transition of IaaS and PaaS workloads to Microsoft
Azure
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has released an enhanced version of the
Accenture Cloud Platform, designed to help organizations reduce
costs associated with cloud implementations, such as migrating to
cloud, modernization of cloud applications, and ongoing management
of cloud infrastructure. New cloud economics capabilities enable
enterprises of all sizes take greater advantage of the flexibility
offered by an as-a-Service operating model, where IT and business
services are delivered on-demand via the cloud.
With the power and flexibility to manage complex enterprise
workloads simply and securely across any cloud environment on
demand and at speed, the Accenture Cloud Platform is an open,
scalable and technical solution for enterprises. The multi-cloud
management platform allows services to be ramped up or down as
needed, centrally managing all enterprise cloud resources—public,
private or hybrid—by automating and accelerating the delivery of
cloud solutions.
“In order to adopt an as-a-Service operating model and truly
become digital businesses, companies must focus on greater
operational agility, increased flexibility and speed-to-value that
requires the right cloud management tools,” said Michael Liebow,
Global Managing Director, Accenture Cloud Platform. “This release
of the Accenture Cloud Platform addresses and improves the
organizational capabilities designed to manage their cloud
ambitions, significantly cutting the time to deploy resources while
providing greater control and boosting the ability to innovate and
integrate new solutions quicker than ever before on the journey to
cloud every company must embark on.”
Helping clients optimize cloud costs, agility, governance and
control of cloud applications in the as-a-Service economy
The Accenture Cloud Platform’s latest release includes
capabilities designed to help organizations improve their cost
efficiency by enhancing resource usage and reducing operational
costs that improve ROI with better consumption and cost-management.
The resulting reduction in overall cloud costs can be as much as 40
percent. Additionally, by centralizing cloud governance with
analytics, cost controls and policy management, the Accenture Cloud
Platform enhances control of cloud capabilities and provides better
visibility, accountability and compliance while reducing IT
operational costs.
A key new offering with this release includes the piloting of a
new Cloud Optimization Service to help clients control cloud sprawl
and reduce cloud spend through expertise, actionable analytics and
continued process improvement. A combination of platform
capabilities and consulting knowledge, this service provides:
- Collaborative Assessment – A
deep collaboration with clients to gather business requirements,
understand expenditures and organize their cloud portfolio.
- Proactive Monitoring – Establish
visibility and control through analytics, targeted alerts, and
automated reporting that enables continued flexibility and
oversight.
- Actionable Recommendations –
Leveraging insights and deep industry expertise to produce custom
optimization roadmaps tailored to client’s business needs and
industry requirements.
- Continuous Improvement – An
ongoing refinement and simplified implementation that leverages
automation to optimize migration processes and addresses changes in
cloud usage.
Among the clients already using the Accenture Cloud Platform for
cloud management and cost efficacy of their cloud investments is
GRTgaz, France’s leading natural gas transmission system operator,
who has deployed a cloud-based infrastructure on Amazon Web
Services to drastically shorten release cycles from 8–12 weeks to
just 10 days, improving the performance and increasing the agility
of business-critical applications. By using AWS with the Accenture
Cloud Platform, GRTgaz achieved a 30 percent reduction in IT
infrastructure costs, and was able to resolve incidents 20 percent
faster and increase environment availability from 54 percent to 90
percent.
With an increasing interest and demand from the enterprise for
simplifying and accelerating application modernization, Accenture
Cloud Platform’s recently released capabilities have been enhanced
to help shepherd clients on their transformations to cloud, whether
focusing on infrastructure or platform needs. Over the past year
alone, Accenture has seen a spike in consumption of resources.
Accenture’s virtual machine count has grown by 50 percent, and
public cloud spend increase by well over 100 percent, with over 3x
growth in non-VM types or PaaS resource usage, and storage up
nearly 3x in the same timeframe. Regardless of client need for IaaS
or PaaS resources, Accenture Cloud Platform is designed to not only
provide a smoother transition to the cloud but the required
management and governance of the resulting new IT estate.
New capabilities to drive smoother transition of IaaS and
PaaS workloads for clients
Accenture invests in high-fidelity features across 7 different
cloud providers with continued emphasis on the hyper-3 leaders,
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. For
example, ACP now includes support for 19 Azure PaaS solution types
and high-fidelity feature support for VMs based on Azure Resource
Manager (ARM) templates. These features helped a global natural
resource client with their cloud-application modernization to
streamline their operations. The features helped another global
client migrate their legacy datacenter workloads to Azure – all
from a single portal. This approach not only made provisioning and
managing cloud applications faster and easier, it created a
centralized governance that met regulatory requirements, while also
fostering better ongoing operational visibility and management of
the client’s overall cloud strategies.
The Accenture Cloud Platform has a global footprint on six
continents as well as strategic relationships with all three
leading hyper-scale cloud providers and more than 150 alliance
partners. Accenture has managed thousands of projects of major
enterprise clients using ACP, including its own internal
transformation where 60% of applications now reside in the public
cloud.
For more information on the Accenture Cloud Platform, visit
www.accenture.com/us-en/cloud-platform.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 375,000
people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
at 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 over 20,000 cloud computing projects for clients, including
three-quarters of the Fortune Global 100, and has more than 31,000
professionals trained in cloud computing.
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