Accenture, BMC expand partnership

Accenture and BMC Software have created a joint development of business service management solutions, reports MarketWatch.

Rockwell Bonecutter, senior executive and global lead for Accenture Alliance Channel Management, says: "Governance and compliance requirements are escalating rapidly, and the demand for an integrated view of business process management has never been greater.”

Accenture and BMC will focus initially on an integrated IT service management solution based on BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database, BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite and Accenture technology consulting services.

After three years of continuous running battles, India's Department of IT has finalised the national policy on open standards, writes InformationWeek.

With this development, India has become another major country to join the growing open standards movement. Some of the largest greenfield e-government projects in the world are in India and the government aims to take e-government services to most of India's billion plus population.

Open source poster boy, Red Hat believes this is a historic moment for the Indian IT industry and DIT deserves congratulations for approving a policy that will ensure India's digital sovereignty and the long-term preservation of India's e-government data.

Cloud service management provider, Freedom OSS, has made an agreement with Lionsgate Entertainment to move its SAP system into a cloud computing environment hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), says TMCnet,

With this move, it is expected IT costs will be reduced; efficiency will be improved; and IT infrastructure consumption will be minimised by varying the amount of energy and computing power to fit specific project needs.

Joel Davne, CEO of Freedom OSS, says: “The migration of a production SAP solution onto the AWS platform is a clear signal that cloud computing is being adopted by large enterprises. ERP represents one of the few remaining barriers that most industry observers felt would take longer to achieve.”