Accenture Launches Velocity, a Platform to Help Clients Drive up to 50% Faster Business Transformation on Amazon Web Services
November 30 2022 - 10:59AM
Business Wire
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today launched Velocity, a jointly funded
and co-developed platform with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS),
that optimizes business outcomes up to 50% faster by removing the
complexity associated with building and operating enterprise-scale
applications and estates in the cloud.
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Velocity allows clients to adopt Accenture and AWS innovations
more quickly based on the learnings from thousands of Accenture and
AWS projects. Together, these repeatable solutions help clients
adopt new AWS services without recreating time-consuming,
labor-intensive work and recurring costs at the start of every
project. Now, organizations can solve intricate industry-specific
challenges to accelerate cloud success. By assimilating learnings
from nearly 40 solutions for 16 industries with proven use-case
relevance, Velocity also serves as a foundation for an expanded set
of new, co-developed industry solutions.
“Last year, we announced a five-year vision with AWS to take
companies further, faster in an era of compressed transformation.
This year, we are delivering on a major step in our five-year
investment to help our clients to grow and innovate across the
cloud continuum for total business reinvention,” said Karthik
Narain, global lead of Accenture Cloud First. “Velocity will bring
AWS-powered industry, cross-industry, and technology solutions to
market faster, with more repeatability and at a lower cost. It’s
the essence of innovation powered by the shared experiences of
Accenture and AWS.”
“For years, Accenture and AWS have collaborated to combine our
shared resources, technical capabilities, and industry knowledge to
help customers unlock innovation, drive business value, and support
growth through cloud adoption and transformation,” said Matt
Garman, senior vice president of sales, marketing and global
services at AWS. “Velocity marks the next step in our collaboration
as we continue to deliver innovation and industry-specific
offerings that help customers move to the cloud faster than ever
before.”
Vodafone, a British multinational telecommunications company,
worked with Accenture and AWS to move its digital business to the
cloud and adopt a DevOps model, supported by serverless
architecture and containerization on AWS.
“We remain focused on upgrading the customer experience
iteratively and endlessly. Our work with Accenture and AWS has
enabled Vodafone to not only scale seamlessly as consumer demand
ebbs and flows but also deliver constant, incremental improvements
at pace,” said Ben Connolly, head of Cloud Engineering & UK
Digital Engineering at Vodafone.
Available on a subscription basis, Velocity provides clients
with cost-effective access to innovative features, including:
- A Technology Fabric – Velocity’s pre-built and
self-renewing capabilities with a growing library of design
patterns quickly create enterprise-scale, cloud-first environments
based on specific business imperatives, including a secure cloud
foundation, a data platform and application building blocks.
- Accelerators – Industry, technical and independent
software vendor (ISV) partner solutions snap into Velocity’s Fabric
as patterns and blocks of deployable code with automation,
including pre-integration features optimized for the expanding
suite of Amazon business solutions.
- Activators – Powered by joint Accenture and AWS delivery
teams, strong ISV partnerships and rapid prototyping, Velocity
Activators ease technology and talent hurdles with a comprehensive
set of assets, methodologies and processes. Accenture’s 27,000 AWS
cloud specialists, who hold 34,000 AWS certifications, accelerate
transformation by ideating, incubating and scaling for global
impact.
Industry Solutions Powered by Velocity
Velocity arrives at a time when enterprises are migrating to the
cloud under tremendous time and cost pressures to capture and grow
market share. Accenture and AWS plan to expand their portfolio of
differentiated solutions across industries to accelerate innovation
powered by Velocity.
Ecopetrol, the largest company in Colombia and a leading
integrated energy company in the Americas, recently launched a
first-of-its-kind solution for water intelligence and management
with Accenture and AWS using Velocity — a prime example of an
industry solution that will help advance sustainability and
operational efficiencies for other energy companies.
“By working with Accenture and AWS, we plan to create the
world’s first water intelligence and management solution, putting
us on a path to achieve water neutrality. We now have Accenture
industry insights and leading cloud capabilities from AWS,” said
Ernesto Gutiérrez de Piñeres, chief science, technology and
innovation officer at Ecopetrol. “The Velocity platform will play a
key role in accelerating our TESG (technology, environmental,
social and governance) agenda, including our goals of reducing 66%
of fresh water captured and zero discharges to surface water by
2045, improving the environment for the communities where we
operate.”
Accenture’s unique collaboration with AWS continues to garner
market recognition. Accenture was recently named a Leader in the
2022 Everest Group PEAK Matrix® for System Integration (SI)
Capabilities on AWS. Accenture was recognized as the Global System
Integrator (GSI) Partner of the Year at AWS re:Invent 2022 and is
the recipient of nearly a dozen AWS awards this year.
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