AWS, Accenture create new business group to ease cloud migration

Amazon Web Services and Accenture have come together to form a new business group to help enterprises migrate to and run their business in the AWS Cloud.

The Accenture AWS Business Group brings together dedicated professionals from each company with expertise in cloud solutions architecture and development, marketing, sales, and business development.

[caption id=“attachment_2465608” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Omar Abbosh, Chief Strategy Officer, Accenture and Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Support, Amazon Web Services[/caption]

The group will offer integrated consulting and technology solutions designed to help enterprise clients 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 AWS Cloud. Accenture and AWS plan to invest resources over multiple years in the development of new services and technology solutions including application migration and development, cloud-based enterprise applications, and analytics and Big Data solutions.

The companies will train an additional 1,000 Accenture professionals and certify 500 Accenture professionals on the AWS Cloud in the first year, and support go-to-market activities.“Cloud is increasingly becoming a starting point with our clients for their enterprise solutions,” said Omar Abbosh, Chief Strategy Officer, Accenture. “Whether our clients need to innovate faster, create new services, or maximize value from their investments, the Accenture AWS Business Group will help them get there faster, with lower risk and with solutions optimized for AWS.” Initially, the Accenture AWS Business Group will focus on two main business areas, with plans to introduce additional solutions in the future: The business group will provide services that include: cloud strategy, organizational and architecture design, application migration, refactoring, and new application development services. A dedicated AWS application development and migration ‘factory’ will automate processes to help businesses run more efficiently.

The Accenture Insights Platform will be expanded to integrate AWS data and analytics capabilities. This will allow customers with compliance and regulatory requirements to better manage the end-to-end data lifecycle from data migration, curation, normalization, and analytics.

The business group will also explore the creation of new services in areas such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Security on the AWS Cloud.