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Cloud Strategy and Design

Unlock the next level of growth and innovation by shifting focus from getting to cloud to getting value from cloud.

Promise of cloud is clear, but where is the value?

Despite years of investment in cloud technologies, many businesses have yet to achieve and maximize value from their cloud investments. Even with the unprecedented surge in cloud investment, only 42% of enterprises have fully achieved their expected outcomes.

Some leaders may feel caught in “cloud transformation limbo”: The low-hanging fruit has been picked, so they’re moving more complex and business-critical systems to accelerate cloud value. But they’re still not fully there, and stubborn barriers remain. Many are struggling with how to use cloud to fuel businesses and growth agendas, how to transform current technology and operate in the cloud, and how to manage cloud costs and consumption commitments.

To unlock the next level of growth and innovation, companies need to shift their focus from “getting to cloud” to “getting value from their cloud investment."

Maximize the value of cloud

We help unlock the full value of cloud beyond technology adoption by reshaping and rethinking the way companies operate to maximize strategic cloud benefits.

Accelerate business growth by reimagining and reinventing business through continuous innovation, powered by various types of cloud capabilities that operate seamlessly across the Cloud Continuum. Potential benefits include:

  • Revenue growth up to five-fold that of peers 
  • Increase in customer lifetime value of up to 30% 
  • Redirect spending from “keeping the lights on” to value-added innovation 
  • Faster time to market 

Revenue growth up to five-fold that of peers

Replatform and embrace cloud as a new operating model to outpace competitors and build agility into your organization. Potential benefits include:

  • Up to 70% greater agility and responsiveness to market changes
  • Accelerated experimentation and shorter application lifecycle
  • Increased speed in the onboarding of new vendors
  • Improved scalability and elasticity of products and business operations

Up to 70% greater agility and responsiveness to market changes

Engage talent and reskill employees on new cloud offerings and streamlined product development processes. Potential benefits include:

  • Up to 30% faster upskilling of workforce
  • Up to 2.3 times higher worker productivity and cross-functional collaboration
  • Creation of new growth paths for employees 
  • Improved retention of top talent through communicating a shared strategic vision across business and IT
  • Implementation of new operating models and development of an innovation mindset

Up to 30% faster upskilling of workforce

Improve cloud economics and get cloud spending under control by unraveling the complexity of the technology cost base through a reduction in technical debt and use of Cloud FinOps. Potential benefits include:

  • Up to 25% lower total cost of ownership by reducing technical debt
  • Up to 40% cost reduction in cloud consumption and operations by implementing Cloud FinOps
  • Up to 30% improvement in capital efficiency of cloud investment
  • Reduced IT hardware investment

Up to 25% lower total cost of ownership by reducing technical debt

Transform current architecture, build a robust digital core and become more resilient and responsive to changing business priorities by modernizing your architecture with smaller reusable independent services. Potential benefits include:

  • Balanced agility and stability with near-zero business interruption
  • Increased resilience by modernizing architecture with smaller reusable independent services
  • Robust data governance with cross-functional reusability
  • Flexible and scalable cloud capabilities
  • Reduced monthly security incidents
  • Improved technology risk posture through security automation

Balanced agility and stability with near-zero business interruption

How we can help

Our Cloud Strategy and Design solution helps enterprises design and implement a cloud journey fit for business and industry. The solution includes identifying what needs to change in an organization’s technology and operations, transforming their existing estate and connecting it into other Accenture Cloud First capabilities.

Our approach helps companies define a path to a strategic target state, enhance their capabilities, and build the secure and compliant technology foundation to help enable a modern digital core—one that connects technologies, services and data seamlessly while delivering innovative business solutions.

 

It all starts with our myNav Cloud Value Finder diagnostic. This proprietary asset can help uncover opportunities for driving value from cloud.

Services to unlock cloud value

Our technology strategists, enterprise architects and cloud-certified practitioners leverage an extensive collection of technologies and tools to help you unlock the true value of cloud.

Cloud Strategy and Value

Define a target state and sharpen your strategy, business case, roadmap and associated architecture to maximize enterprise value.

Ways of working

Build new capabilities to grow cloud talent, rapid innovation, help enable faster product delivery and speed up organizational adaptability.

Enterprise Technology Foundation

Transform the current architecture to build a robust digital core and become more resilient and responsive to changing business priorities.

What we think

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Cloud

Maximizing your cloud advantage

Accenture helps organizations leverage five practices to maximize their cloud investments and thrive in the Cloud Continuum.

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Cloud

The race to the cloud

Companies are reaching the inflection point to long sought value but must first overcome some persistent barriers.

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Talent & Organization

Modern cloud champions

The people and change dimensions of the cloud journey are major roadblocks, a top barrier to achieving cloud value.

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Cloud

The Cloud Continuum

Organizations are reimagining their futures with cloud in extraordinary circumstances, learning how to unleash competitiveness on the Cloud Continuum.

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Case studies

Blogs

Cloud Computing

Three actions to unlock greater cloud value

Accenture unveils three important actions that can help unlock higher-level cloud value and take advantage of AI.

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Cloud & Infrastructure

Why 2023 is the year of next-level cloud value

Cloud is fundamental to achieving strategic business goals, both today and in the future. But how do you get all the value out of cloud once you’re there?

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Research

Attracting tech talent with inclusive upskilling

The demand for digital workers is growing. Ensuring equitable and accessible upskilling opportunities may be the win-win every company is looking for.

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Awards & recognition

Capturing the full business value from cloud is as crucial as it is complicated. Find out why Accenture is the right partner to help you define and implement the right solutions for your business.

EVEREST PEAK MATRIX

Leader in Mainframe Services

GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT

Leader in Public Cloud IT Transformation Services

GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT

Leader in Data Center Outsourcing and Hybrid Infrastructure Managed Service

EVEREST PEAK MATRIX
Leader in System Integrator Capabilities on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure

Our leaders

Ashley Skyrme

Senior Managing Director – Strategy & Consulting, Cloud First, Global
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Max Furmanov

Managing Director – Technology, Cloud First Design
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