Accenture Innovation Center for Cloud

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Just five years ago, “the cloud” was little more than an innovative concept. Since then, this once intriguing idea has become a must-have component of many businesses’ IT strategies. Today, few companies—large or small—question the cloud’s ability to boost their computing power, drive operational efficiencies or reduce their IT costs. What they do question is how to extract even more value from their cloud investments.

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Accenture can help find the answers.

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Cloud-inspired. Outcome-driven.Accenture has been—and continues to be—at the forefront of the cloud revolution. As a go-to provider for companies looking to configure, deploy and accelerate cloud solutions, we have a unique vantage point that enables us to see the cloud opportunities that lie ahead. We know that while the cost advantages of cloud are alluring, the real benefit of cloud computing lies in the agility it enables, the innovation it unleashes, and the outcomes it makes possible.

To bring our insights to our clients in a pragmatic, industry-specific way, we have established the Accenture Innovation Center for Cloud in Bangalore, India. This industry-leading innovation center has a singular mission: helping executives explore the potential value that cloud solutions can deliver for their businesses.

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Dream bigBusiness leaders understand, theoretically, that cloud solutions can drive competitive advantage. Our team of specialists helps leadership teams like yours envision their cloud future. Drawing on our deep experience, through hands-on demonstrations, we show you what is possible, new and innovative. And we routinely help you formulate cloud strategies that effectively and innovatively help meet the unique needs of their business, creating “breakthrough” moments in the way your team thinks about and uses cloud technology.

Share concerns The Accenture Innovation Center for Cloud is a perfect place for your business leaders to examine the issues that may be preventing your organization from harnessing the advantages of what cloud computing can offer. Data security, data ownership and control, and legacy system/cloud integration are a few of the most common concerns. Through candid and open discussions, we explain best practices other organizations have used in similar situation—allowing them to realize the potential benefits of cloud technologies.

Experience cloud in a new wayAt the Innovation Center for Cloud, our goal is to expand our visitors’ thinking and bring the potential of cloud computing to life in meaningful and interactive ways. Our industry-leading facility incorporates the latest technologies, from touch tables and video walls to interactive demonstrations, as well as Accenture’s proprietary tools and methodologies to create a highly immersive, hands-on cloud experience. Each visit is designed to address executives’ specific concerns and business needs. Each visit is intended to provoke new thinking and exploration. Above all, our time together is designed to help illustrate how cloud computing can be used to not only enable, but also accelerate, innovation.

What We OfferAt the Innovation Center for Cloud, we create a high-touch/high-tech experience that allows visitors to immerse themselves in the possibilities of cloud computing. We design a program tailored to your organization’s specific needs of our clients—from full-day strategy sessions that allow your executive teams to explore how cloud solutions can help move your business forward, to targeted sessions that focus on one or two specific challenges that cloud computing can address. Regardless of what you would like to accomplish during their site visits, we offer a private and customized forum that encourages you to:

The Accenture Innovation Center for Cloud offers a high-touch, interactive environment that brings the power of cloud computing to life. A number of hands-on tools and live demonstrations are available to stimulate discussion and provoke new thinking.

These include Cloud Strategy, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS as detailed below.

Accenture Innovation Center

Cloud strategy• Capability and readiness assessments

• Industry-specific insights

• Digital architectures

• Cloud operating models

PaaS• Legacy to cloud migration

• Quick-start tools

• Analytics architectures

• Demonstrations of application modernization and mobile notification tools

SaaS• Batch management in the cloud

• iPad call planning

IaaS• ERP private clouds

• Hybrid clouds

• Workplace-as-a-Service Tools and demos

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We are leaders in delivering solutions and insights across the cloud spectrum. From Software as a Service (SaaS) to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS) to the emerging area of Business Process as a Service (BPaaS), we help our visitors understand and capitalize on the potential value of all things cloud. Equally important, our vast experience enables us to help executives at any point of the cloud computing lifecycle—from envisioning a cloud strategy to developing capabilities and confidence in specific areas such as a cloud security or cloud brokerage.

We have unmatched cross-industry experience. Accenture has helped clients in 40 industries design and deploy cloud solutions that drive competitive advantage. While we have developed a number of leading-edge, industry-specific software solutions in the cloud, our cross-industry perspective is equally valuable in helping executives understand the true potential of cloud computing. What has worked in one industry often works in others.

We understand the value—and challenges—of cloud computing in all areas of the business. From data management to sales force automation, customer service to supply chain management, we work with executives across an organization to reveal the often hidden value that cloud computing can deliver.

Why Accenture?There is no such thing as a “typical visitor” to the Accenture Innovation Center for Cloud. Executives come to us from all industries and geographies, with unique needs and interests, and from organizations with varying levels of cloud maturity. We believe that Accenture is uniquely positioned to offer an environment that inspires cloud innovation throughout such a diverse audience.

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We have deep and proven experience working with clients around the world to develop cloud solutions that address their business imperatives. We’ve helped nearly 70 percent of the Fortune Global 100 with their cloud initiatives, and worked on about 8,000 cloud projects in more than 50 countries. In doing so, we combine our deep knowledge of cloud and digital technologies to develop solutions that deliver value on their own or in tandem with legacy IT environments.

We are part of a vast cloud ecosystem. Over the years, Accenture has established strong relationships with cloud providers and technology alliance partners with whom we collaborate to deliver industry leading solutions. With our vast experience, knowledge and insights, we are uniquely positioned to help businesses identify the solutions and providers that can best meet their needs.

We have proven, world-class assets that speed delivery and time to value. Our proprietary tools, offerings and methodologies have been tested and honed through real-world experience on thousands of client projects. And our roadmaps, implementation frameworks, and industrialized approaches to solution delivery help our clients reduce risk, increase cost efficiencies and take advantage of the cloud-based applications and development platforms at their disposal.

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Companies around the world are now routinely using cloud technologies to rein in IT spending, manage data more efficiently, or engage more effectively with growing communities of customers, suppliers and partners. These advantages are, in fact, just the beginning of what cloud computing makes possible.

At the Accenture Innovation Center for Cloud, we are pleased to help forward-thinking businesses more fully envision the potential of cloud via an experience that is as unique as they are.

We would be honored to help you, too.

Interested in visiting?To arrange a site visit, or for more information on how the Center can help you unleash innovation with cloud, please contact aicc.bangalore@accenture.com.

Embrace the Possibilities. Unleash Innovation.

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About Accenture CloudAccenture is uniquely positioned to help organizations use the cloud for competitive advantage within a complex digital marketplace. With a full range of cloud services, from strategy and implementation to migration and a cloud brokerage, we help clients plan for, integrate and manage in a hybrid world where cloud and legacy systems co-exist. We combine those insights with our industry knowledge, delivery experience and diverse ecosystem to drive innovation and transform complex environments into high-performing digital businesses.

Accenture has worked on more than 7,000 cloud computing projects for clients, including more than 60 percent of the Fortune Global 100, and has more than 9,000 professionals trained in cloud computing.

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About AccentureAccenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 281,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$28.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2013. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

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