Accenture Announces Extended Relationship with AWS and Joint Investments to Help Organizations Get to Cloud Value Faster
November 29 2021 - 6:31PM
Business Wire
New accelerators will harness the power of the
Cloud Continuum — from public to edge and everything in between —
taking companies further, faster in an era of compressed
transformation
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced the renewal of its joint
business group with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). Building on a
13-year relationship, Accenture and AWS will make an additional
joint investment over the next five years to help clients spur
innovation on the Cloud Continuum and accelerate business value at
scale by delivering solutions through the Accenture AWS Business
Group (AABG).
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On the heels of thousands of cloud projects, the extended AABG
relationship announced today will help organizations address the
technology, human and business dimensions of cloud change at scale
with greater speed and certainty. Accenture’s investment with AWS
brings timely resources for Accenture Cloud First, a multi-service
group providing the full stack of cloud services created
specifically to help clients become cloud-first businesses so they
can accelerate their digital transformation, innovate faster and
create differentiated, sustainable value.
Over the next five years, Accenture will develop a range of new
accelerators to address the biggest challenges in cloud migrations
with the goal of enabling AWS innovations to be adopted up to 50%
faster. As part of this investment, Accenture will also continue to
invest in data-driven solutions for talent development and
organizational change, which are critical and often cited as a key
barrier to realizing cloud value.
The extended relationship will help clients achieve industry
differentiation by tapping into the unparalleled AABG joint
portfolio of 175 assets and 20,000 cloud specialists who hold
24,000 AWS certifications – making Accenture among the top systems
integrators in the world with vast AWS resources. To date,
Accenture and AWS have co-created nearly 40 solutions for 16
industries with proven use-case relevance in order to jumpstart
client value.
In today’s hyper-competitive era of compressed transformation,
organizations must implement change under tremendous time pressure.
For Generali Vitality, a subsidiary of one of the largest global
insurance and asset management providers, their wellness business
group needed to scale quickly to reach new customers. Working with
Accenture and AWS to tap into cloud-native technology, Generali
Vitality is now able to roll out new features at the push of a
button to continuously improve their products and engage
customers.
“We have successfully launched in multiple European markets and
our user base is constantly growing. Part of this journey has been
enabled by smart use of cloud native technology and Accenture’s
outstanding software engineering capabilities,” said Simon Guest,
CEO of Generali Vitality.
“We’ve learned through experience that our customers’ success
often hinges on two key factors: speed and the ability to adopt new
ways of working,” said Matt Garman, senior vice president of sales
and marketing at AWS. “Our investment to create reusable
accelerators and mechanisms with Accenture is intended to make
cloud transformation and change programs easier and more
predictable — so customers can continuously innovate and lead their
industries.”
“On the Cloud Continuum, breakthrough innovations will continue
at a rapid pace. Harnessing those innovations for competitive
advantage will require a commitment to permanent reinvention,” said
Karthik Narain, global lead of Accenture Cloud First. “Together,
we’re investing with AWS to help companies prioritize and invest in
people transformation as much as tech transformation, which yields
an average of 60% higher cloud return on investment.”
Launched in 2015, the Accenture AWS Business Group 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.
Accenture has been recognized by AWS with several awards, including
2021 AWS Global System Integrator (GSI) Partner of the Year for
US.
About Accenture Accenture is a global professional
services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and
security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills
across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting,
Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the
world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent
Operations centers. Our 624,000 people deliver on the promise of
technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more
than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value
and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners
and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
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