Accenture Platform Manages Hybrid Clouds
Accenture Platform Manages Hybrid Clouds by UCStrategies Staff
New York-based Accenture is broadening its company’s reach by providing cloud-related services; this is being aided with a new initiative which will allow organizations to integrate and manage hybrid cloud environments over numerous platforms.
Accenture stated that the Accenture Cloud Platform will support cloud brokerage and orchestration services, which are being increasingly provided by managed service providers and channel partners.
The global senior managing director of Accenture’s cloud initiate, Jack Sepple, said: “We are not doing data centers, nor are we creating horizontal solutions, or becoming a CRM provider. Instead, this is about integrating those kinds of offers together. So we're going toward a platform that does self-service cataloging with provisioning. Everything will be pre-integrated and pre-tested by us before we offer it.”
At present, infrastructure solutions which are built around compute are offered, as are network and storage. These offerings are made available on hourly or monthly bases, depending on the nature of the contract. Support for testing, big data as a service and platform as a service are also provided by the platform.
Sepple said: “Our intention is to move up the stack as time goes on so that we can reach further into business processes. So we will make more announcements as time goes on, as we roll out additional enhancements and new services to be offered on the platform. Over the course of time, we intend to push more deeply into critical business services, which are really industry aligned solutions, and our intent is to use the platform to enhance our service capabilities and our software solutions over the long term.”
Furthermore, $400 million is set to be invested by Accenture into the cloud, and this also includes enhancements to this platform and other professional services and supporting deliverables.
Sepple added: “We see huge opportunity in the cloud, and it's important to be at the forefront of that inflection point. We are committed to helping our customers to navigate this trend, and to maximize its impact to the highest benefits of our customers.”
Over 4,000 cloud projects have been worked on for clients, according to Accenture, and this includes more than half of the Fortune Global 100. Additionally, over 6,700 professionals who are trained in cloud-related technologies are employed by the company. (CY) Link