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Accenture, AWS form new business group

Admire Moyo
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb's news editor.
Las Vegas, 08 Oct 2015

Consulting, technology services and outsourcing company Accenture, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to form the Accenture AWS Business Group.

The partnership was announced during the ongoing AWS re:Invent Conference in Las Vegas. Under the partnership, both companies - with relations spanning over a decade - will supply professionals in their respective businesses to help organisations quickly move their business to the cloud.

The business group will offer integrated consulting and technology solutions designed to help enterprises take greater advantage of the flexibility and economics of an "as-a-service" operating model where IT and business services are delivered on-demand, via the AWS Cloud.

Accenture and AWS plan to invest significant resources over multiple years in the development of new services and technology solutions, including application migration and development, cloud-based enterprise applications, and analytics and big data solutions.

The companies say they are committed to train an additional 1 000 Accenture professionals and certify 500 Accenture professionals on the AWS Cloud in the first year, and support go-to-market activities.

Employees dedicated to the Accenture AWS Business Group will be equipped with the latest AWS technologies, methodologies, automated tools for application migration, and software-as-a-service applications for big data management and analytics.

"The formation of the Accenture AWS Business Group is a key part of our Accenture cloud first agenda. Cloud is increasingly becoming a starting point with our clients for their enterprise solutions," said Omar Abbosh, chief strategy officer at Accenture.

"Whether our clients need to innovate faster, create new services, or maximise value from their investments, the Accenture AWS Business Group will help them get there faster, with lower risk and with solutions optimised for AWS."

"We are working with more organisations than ever before who have made the decision to transform their business by moving to the AWS Cloud," said Adam Selipsky, vice-president of sales, marketing and support at Amazon Web Services.

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