Accenture and Amazon Web Services Extend Enterprise Transformation Leadership with Expanded Services and Dedicated Resources Designed to Accelerate Innovation
November 27, 2018
SEATTLE & LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today
announced newly expanded services and resources led by the Accenture
AWS Business Group (AABG) to help clients accelerate their pace of
innovation. Built around the continued collaboration between both
organizations, the new capabilities deliver industry-proven expertise to
help clients achieve business outcomes previously unimaginable.
Launched in 2015, the AABG combines the resources, technical capability
and industry knowledge of Accenture and AWS to help enterprises unlock
innovation, drive business value and support growth through cloud
adoption and transformation.
The continued investment and expansion of services comes at a time of
market disruption for clients demanding deeper capability, established
models and methodologies to help scale innovation, and measurable
business value. With hundreds of enterprise transformation projects
completed, the AABG is now spearheading countless innovation projects
powered by new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI),
machine learning (ML), analytics and cloud native strategies. This
disruption calls for more capability to help enterprises combine digital
innovation with legacy transformation while adopting established
industry platforms.
The new innovation accelerator services and dedicated resources consist
of:
— A new Applied Intelligence Studio for AWS in Seattle, where clients
can access AI specialists from AWS and Accenture to apply AWS ML
services, such as Amazon SageMaker, and integrate leading practices more
rapidly for burgeoning innovation projects. The AABG team will identify
industry- and domain-specific use cases where leading technologies can
be applied to help solve key business challenges. For example, the team
has already started to enhance Accenture’s existing client solutions on
AWS. Among these are a predictive maintenance solution for Japanese
telecommunications company KDDI to enable near real-time ML against IoT
data, allowing KDDI to better scale its operations for manufacturing
clients and offer new pricing models. The solution was developed in
collaboration with Accenture’s Applied
Intelligence practice.
— The development of LaunchPad, an agile network of Accenture
and AWS specialists skilled in strategic AWS services, core to quickly
enabling digital transformation beyond traditional cost reductions.
Steeped with industry knowledge, these specialists are embedded in
Accenture Liquid Studios and innovation centers around the world. For
example, at the new Liquid Studio in San Francisco, specialists from
Accenture and AWS take clients through design-thinking workshops,
helping them create project prototypes and incubate industry-specific
solutions that can be scaled rapidly on AWS.
— Additional tools, templates and leading industry solutions,
backed by the collective knowledge of the AABG, to help clients be
nimbler and scale services more easily. Among these will be new Industry
Solution Incubators to help clients leverage modular, modern platforms
that integrate the best of their existing assets with analytics and ML
via platform-enabled delivery. For instance, last month Accenture, AWS,
and Merck announced a cloud-based
informatics research platform to help organizations in the life
sciences industry improve productivity, efficiency and innovation in the
early stages of drug development. Clients can expect similar solutions
targeted at industry-specific challenges.
— The creation of Blockchain Express, which is aimed to be a
faster, more cost-effective way for AWS clients who are interested in
blockchain services to explore the benefits of distributed ledger
technologies (DLT). This cross-industry offering will be a condensed
five- to six-week engagement that includes access to Accenture’s
specialists and range of services to map out how to drive value from DLT
within the enterprise. Additionally, it will include the rapid
development of an operational DLT network that will enable companies to
accelerate their blockchain adoption journey.
“Our strong business momentum means we can invest more resources to
focus on a comprehensive transformation for our clients who are asking
for legacy transformation, quick-hitting digital innovation, and
industry-focused solutions,” said Chris Wegmann, global managing
director of AABG and Accenture’s AWS practice. “Our experience has shown
that bringing our best talent forward with cross-team collaboration
helps enable a path to success. It’s about combining the power of
Accenture and AWS to help clients acceleration innovation at a time of
epic disruption across all industries.”
“The Accenture AWS Business Group provides extensive experience,
resources, methodologies, and learnings to help clients rapidly deliver
business value and innovation,” said Terry Wise, global vice president
of Channels & Alliances at Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Our customers are
asking us to help them innovate faster by leveraging new AWS services
such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and analytics.”
To date, the AABG has helped hundreds of clients leverage the full power
of AWS. Accenture today announced that ETS,
the world’s largest private, non-profit educational testing and
assessment organization, has invested in a cloud migration to AWS to
meet its digital transformation goals of enabling innovation and driving
operational improvements.
Accenture and AWS had been working together for nearly a decade before
forming the AABG in 2015. The AABG extends that collaboration, helping
hundreds of clients with their move to AWS — from strategy ideation, to
migration, to operation and run — securely and at scale, all powered by
AABG’s joint investments in world-class accelerators, centers of
excellence and digital skills. To date, the AABG has trained more than
5,000 Accenture technologists and earned more than 2,100 AWS
certifications.
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