Accenture Cloud Platform: Control, Manage and Govern the Enterprise Cloud

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Control, Manage and Govern the

Enterprise Cloud

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And it’s real. Cloud based, scalable, pay-as-you-go

consumption of IT infrastructure services is now essential

to delivering the capabilities required by a digital business.

The world of the enterprise Cloud is here

SCALABLECLOUD BASED PAY-AS-YOU-GO


Yet challenges exist as different types of cloud services are

needed to meet a variety of customer needs AND to

navigate the complexity of a multi-cloud landscape

No ‘one-size-fits-all’

solution exists. It must

integrate with existing

architecture.

Demands on IT resource

are doubling, but

budgets remain flat.

Many CIOs have to deal with multiple, separate

cloud accounts: a hybrid IT architecture.


What’s needed to achieve the full benefit

of Cloud in today’s complex landscape?

SPEED AND AGILITY

Accelerate service developmentand deployment to automate and accelerate solution delivery.

COST EFFICIENCYAND OPTIMIZATION

Cut costs and improve ROI with streamlined and optimized resources gaining better information on usage and cost management.

GOVERNANCEAND CONTROL

Centralized cloud governance andcontrol with analytics and policies to provide visibility, accountability, and compliance.

Customizable experience and multiple cloud choices providing both technical and business alignment.


FLEXIBILITY OF CHOICE


Navigate the Cloud landscape with the

Accenture Cloud Platform

The Accenture Cloud Platform enables an entirely new agile operating model

for cloud consumption by the business and IT. Achieve a new level of control,

scalability and security to innovate and deploy new solutions more quickly

than ever.


The Accenture Cloud Platform is designed to help your

company improve…

Cost efficiency and

optimization of IT. Optimize

resource usage to help reduce

operational costs and improve

ROI. Provide better

consumption and cost-

management with improved

analytics, forecasting and

reporting capabilities.

The speed of implementing

new cloud solutions.

Accelerate speed to value and

increase agility by reducing the

time needed to develop and

deploy new business solutions.

Governance and cloud

management controls.

Simplify oversight with

centralized cloud governance

using analytics, cost controls

and policy management.

Provide enhanced visibility,

accountability and compliance

without additional overhead

costs.


What’s distinctive about the Accenture Cloud Platform

1. Delivered “as a service” for on demand consumption.

The Accenture Cloud Platform provides the ability to optimize

resource usage and reduce operational expense for better

consumption and cost management.


2. Supports private and public clouds with automated portability.

Enables the management of on-premise private cloud solutions

built on Open Stack, VMware vCloud Suite and others.

Easy integration means services can be ordered across providers

including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure,

Google Cloud Platform, NTT Communications and Accenture

Private Cloud.



3. Your cloud, your way.

The discovery engine and an exposed application programming

interface allows access to services either through the Accenture

Cloud Platform portal, through applications directly, or through the

native cloud provider console.

This provides flexible integration options and helps you to

leverage new service introductions and innovations from cloud

vendors immediately, helping improve speed to value.



4. Application and platform blueprinting

Contains the key information needed to effectively build and

deploy applications in the cloud—including server, software,

storage, network, images and firewall details.

Automated, self-service blueprints enable multiple cloud services

to be bundled, provisioned and deployed from a single point of

control across providers.



5. Suite of managed services

A suite of managed services and security delivered as a

consumption-based service to enterprises via a fully automated,

self-service model.

ACP provides fast access to pre-approved virtual machines

(VMs), workloads, enterprise-grade applications or services

through an extensible service catalog.



6. Enterprise level governance and compliance

Enterprise grade, cross-cloud policy based management and

control for better governance and compliance.

ACP leverages a growing number of hosted Cloud Management

Services to better secure, monitor and manage your resources

without the burden of deploying and maintaining your own tools.



7. Cross-cloud transparency

Cross-cloud transparency with resource tagging enables better

visibility, analysis and control of your resources across all of your

cloud platforms.



8. Accelerated application development

With easy development and management of industry leading

DevOps tools and platforms, you can speed time to delivery of

new cloud applications.



9. Consumption and resource management analytics

Provide better ROI for your cloud resources with the ability to

view and analyze utilization and consumption against limits and

forecast spend across clouds.



Are you ready to tame the Cloud

Accenture has helped many innovative partners take control:

Goal! Accenture delivers a cloud-

based sports app for BT

Telecom company BT was launching its mobile sports

app, BT Sport. It had acquired the rights to Premier

League football games and needed to develop the

service rapidly. Accenture integrated all the required

capabilities, including digital services, mobility and

cloud, and worked with BT to deliver BT Sport

successfully and on time. With the Accenture Cloud

Platform, Accenture provided a fully managed service

for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure on-

demand, together with an integrated authentication

solution. BT Sport can scale capacity and services up

and down within minutes in line with the audience

size during football matches.


Accelerating the as-a-service economy

For more information on the

Accenture Cloud Platform, visit:

www.accenture.com/us-en/cloud-platform.

Engage with us:

@AccentureCloud

@AccentureOps

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