Cloud Services | Accenture (2024)

Reach new heights with cloud

The race to cloud has never been fiercer as companies expand their goals for delivering growth, agility and efficiency. Overcoming stubborn barriers to maximize cloud value requires a distinct set of practices.

Unlock data’s value to drive opportunity

Cloud is the data backbone of the enterprise—fueling new capabilities like AI. A modern data platform, built on cloud, unleashes data’s true value and contributes to a strong digital core.

Transform applications for the cloud

Bringing legacy baggage to the cloud is a known impediment to value. Modernizing applications through three key steps can help fast-track value realization.

Cloud Data and AI

Data is the driver and AI is the differentiator

Your journey starts with migrating data to the cloud, opening the door to the much larger opportunity, leveraging a modern data platform to:

98%

of global executives agree AI foundation models will play an important role in their organizations’ strategies in the next 3 to 5 years.

Achieve speed, scale and access

Achieve up to 50% cost savings, 40% faster time to market, and 75% reduction in processing times.

Create and grow engaging experiences

See up to 90% reduction in new use case creation and 3X increase in user satisfaction.

Accelerate growth and innovation

Speed AI/ML proof of concepts up to 15x while reducing failure rates and maximizing ongoing performance.

Application Transformation

Become a world-class software organization

In today’s disruptive landscape, your software must be able to adapt with the business. Transforming applications, operating models and mindsets can unlock innovation and drive new business value.

40%

of companies say the need to modernize legacy applications is a top three barrier to achieving their expected cloud value

Unlock innovation

Unlock innovation spend with streamlined operations, and experiment faster than ever. Deliver new and improved applications and experiences that can contribute to increased revenues.

Gain business agility

Deploy fresh new features in weeks instead of months and increase your speed to market with modern applications and agile ways of working.

Drive cost efficiency

Significantly reduce your application costs by managing technical debt, consolidating a complex landscape and increasing overall efficiency.

Engage your talent

Improve retention and overall engagement by upskilling teams in advanced technologies and modern development practices.

Cloud Infrastructure

Gain resilience and innovate faster with a modern infrastructure

Traditional infrastructure can’t keep up with the pace of change. Embrace a modern infrastructure with the compute, network, workplace and data capabilities to meet the opportunities of today and tomorrow.

34%

of companies say infrastructure is one of the top three barriers to realizing cloud value.

Control cost and add value

Deliver higher value while capitalizing on your digital core investments. How? By optimizing cloud consumption, cost and performance, and by accelerating execution.

Strengthen your digital core

Achieve a modern, cloud-based, sustainable IT foundation, made of interoperable parts that are intentionally integrated, automated, agile and secure by design.

Create breakthrough innovation

Apply next-generation technologies in novel ways, tapping into ecosystems and networks to capture new opportunities and address acute business needs.

Elevate user experiences

Keep up with dynamic customer demands. Personalize user experiences across touchpoints and unlock new levels of service.

Empower your people

Ensure your IT team has the right skills, tools and operating model to embrace the latest tech innovations and reach for new performance frontiers.

Edge Computing

Reimagining experiences for people, purpose and profitability

Much of today’s computing already happens at the edge: in hospitals, factories retail stores. Gain the power to embrace new opportunities by generating action-led insights in real-time.

83%

of companies believe edge computing will be essential to remaining competitive in the future.

Enable rapid response

Data transmission takes time. Edge can enable real-time or extremely rapid responses by bringing data processing closer to the source.

Manage high data volumes

Reduce cost of transmissions and network capacity limitations by processing data at the edge.

Enhance privacy

Keep control of sensitive data locally when needed without having to send it to the cloud.

Expand your reach

Bring real-time data-processing to areas with connectivity challenges like offshore locations or transportation.

Optimize costs

Processing data in different parts of the cloud continuum involves different cost profiles, which can be optimized to minimize total cost across the system.

Build operational autonomy

Where connectivity to the cloud is a challenge, edge can enable end-to-end processing in the local environment to keep operations up and running.

Network

Shape, build and operate secure software-defined networks

Transforming enterprise and 5G networks is a must for every company replatforming their business on cloud and developing new solutions at the edge.

89%

of enterprises consider modern networks a differentiator in achieving business objectives at their organization.

Reduce ownership costs

Reduce TCO by moving to a software defined network, while embracing automation to do more with fewer resources.

Unlock value and innovation

Combine the power of data and applications to drastically improve decision making and time to market thanks to improved network resiliency and speed.

Meet ever-mounting demands

Accommodate rising demands on network performance resulting from an ever-increasing number of devices, locations users and data.

Generate new revenue

Transform the value chain with 5G innovation, creating new and agile business models and use cases, reenergizing industries and creating new sources of revenue.

Empower your people

Help your teams reach new performance frontiers by cultivating the right network skills, tool sets and operating models.

Cloud Strategy and Design

Capture better business value with cloud

In today’s ever-changing business landscape, organizations need a fundamentally different approach to building and managing technology and transformation to achieve expected benefits and innovation.

42%

of companies report fully achieving expected value from cloud, which means the majority are falling short.

Drive business growth and innovate

Accelerate growth by reimagining and reinventing your business through continuous innovation, powered by seamless cloud capabilities.

Get greater business agility

Outpace your competitors and build agility into your organization by re-platforming and embracing cloud as a new operating model.

Empower your talent

Train your people on cloud offerings and processes to boost their engagement, increasing their productivity, collaboration and retention.

Cut costs, boost efficiency

Improve cloud economics and get your spending under control by reducing your technical debt and deploying FinOps for cloud.

Build a change-ready digital core

Transform your enterprise architecture to create a robust digital core that reacts at the speed your business needs.

Infrastructure Managed Services

Manage complexity to run better on cloud

Managing an increasingly complex IT landscape with outdated skills, tools and operating models is a challenge. We’ll help you stabilize, optimize and transform your IT infrastructure with agility and flexibility.

82%

of all companies that are fully achieving their cloud outcomes are using managed services to a moderate or great degree

Manage compute

Unlock agility and value by tapping into proven operational excellence to run your IT infrastructure, from on-prem to cloud to edge.

Enhance networks

Connect new services with speed, security and reliability so your network can rapidly adapt to changing demands and customer expectations.

Upgrade the digital workplace

Adopt a human-centric approach to workplace experience that supports collaboration, optimizes the physical workspace and maximizes productivity and wellbeing.

Optimize your database infrastructure

Secure and manage databases with ease in on-prem, hybrid and multi-cloud environments — while ensuring optimum availability and performance.

Increase resilience

Proactively enhance your security risk posture — preempting, detecting and remediating threats to ensure operational and business resilience.

Manage services and assets

Achieve seamless service and asset management by using advanced technologies to maximize efficiency while minimizing costs and business disruption.

Application Managed Services

Run to new: Outpace change with modern application management

Application complexity is on the rise, and disruption is at an all-time high. Integrate cloud, gen AI and new technologies with traditional managed services approaches to get to greater value, faster.

80%

of enterprises will have deployed gen AI-enabled applications by 2026

Optimize costs and get more value

Rethinking business and IT can yield up to 50% TCO reduction, 30% increase in business user satisfaction and 30% improvement in business outcomes.

Achieve composability and speed

Reimagining applications can result in a 35% velocity increase and 60% of your applications migrated and modernized.

Gain agility and resilience

Scaling automation and observability can deliver up to 4x improvement in speed-to-value, 60% reduced outages and 99.9% application availability.

Sustainable Technology

Engineer a better future

Technology has transformed our lives and businesses—but the amount of energy it consumes can be huge. We have a twofold opportunity to make technology itself more sustainable, and use technology to become more sustainable as a global community.

84%

reduction in carbon emissions can be achieved by shifting from on-premise data centers to the public cloud.

Generate more value

ESG leaders outperform their peers financially, generating up to 2.6x more value for shareholders.

Increase revenue and growth

51% of companies say technology-led sustainability initiatives lead to increased revenues from better products.

Innovate to capture new business

49%of companies say technology-led sustainability initiatives help create new businesses.

Create better customer experiences

49% of companies say sustainable technology is essential for enhanced customer experience.

Attract top tech talent

49% of companies say a commitment to sustainability is a big draw for software engineers and tech talent.

Cloud security

Operate with confidence in a secure IT environment

Work with an ecosystem of partners to help accelerate resilience in the public cloud for fast, frictionless, scalable, proactive and cost-effective cloud security.

41%

of companies identify “security and compliance risks” as a top-three barrier to realizing cloud value.

Achieve unprecedented speed

Deploy security capabilities and controls in minutes or hours, rather than months, using cloud service provider accelerators.

Reduce friction

Function more smoothly by embedding security into your existing solutions, business processes and operational teams.

Scale efficiently

Reduce manuals steps and the need to add extra headcount with automation and self-healing processes.

Preempt threats

Block accidental or malicious security incidents from happening in the first place with pre-emptive controls.

Reduce costs

Avoid rework costs by baking in security from the start.

Accenture surveyed 800 senior IT executives to gauge the success of the cloud adoption journey and expected cloud business value.

Accenture details 5 cloud transformation practices to help companies extract maximum value from cloud and succeed in the Cloud Continuum.

Today, many businesses are not realizing the full benefits from cloud migration that they expect. That’s why it’s time to adopt application transformation and a “migrate-to-modernize” strategy as the path to cloud value.

Edge enables the rapid processing of data close to its source and plays a key role in evolving AI for the enterprise. Our research reveals how companies across the globe are using edge, and how they can scale its value.

Digitalization is outpacing network capacity and innovation spend, making networks a bottleneck to reinvention. Our research explores how companies are approaching network modernization and reveals three keys to success.

With innovations like ChatGPT dominating headlines, the world is waking up to the transformative potential of generative AI. Find out how AI working side-by-side with people will impact science, business and society itself.

Data on the Cloud Continuum has taken on a new life, growing in importance and attention.

In Accenture’s vendor profile, the Forrester report states: “Accenture pioneered the practice of building hyperscale-specific go-to-market units, and its significant certifications across major cloud platforms signal its depth of capability.”

“Accenture — with its strong industry knowledge, industry cloud offers, and breadth of technology services that span from consulting all the way to managed services — can fulfill cloud technology implementation needs at a global scale.”

Accenture has been named as a Leader in the Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Service Providers.”

Accenture is a good fit for enterprises looking for an integrated approach across infrastructure, applications, data, AI and security owing to its broad partner ecosystem and end-to-end solution suites.