Accenture has unveiled the Accenture Cloud Platform to assist clients in getting the most business value from cloud computing.
The Accenture Cloud Platform provides services and solutions designed to help organisations integrate and manage the hybrid cloud environments that span across multiple vendor platforms and are critical to providing ultimate flexibility and supporting emerging technologies.
The company reports that the Cloud Platform intends to provide cloud brokering and orchestration services that are growing in importance to clients.
As part of this strategic initiative, Accenture will invest more than $400 million globally in cloud technologies, capabilities and training by 2015 to focus on delivering the right cloud services from its network of providers, as well as blending its own industry solutions and innovations with third-party offerings.
"The Accenture Cloud Platform features proven technologies and business processes to help our clients make the safe journey to cloud," said Jack Sepple, global senior MD for cloud at Accenture.
"We foresee the growing use of public cloud services and are uniquely positioned to offer the best-of-breed from a variety of vendors. We are committed to moving our extensive portfolio of cloud offerings, broad ecosystem of alliance relationships, and large global client base to the cloud in all forms - public, private and hybrid."
According to the Accenture Technology Vision 2013 report, digital technology has become a strategic imperative and a tool of competitive intent for businesses today. Supported by the cloud, technology trends like mobile, social collaboration and big data are changing the landscape as an increasing number of businesses go digital.
As part of its overall investment, Accenture has created expanded services on the Accenture Cloud Platform, including public and virtual private cloud infrastructure, data decommissioning, software systems testing and big data analytics solutions in the cloud.
According to industry analyst firm IDC, the total market size for cloud will grow from approximately $40 billion in 2012 to $98 billion in 2016. This includes projections for software as a service (SaaS) to reach $37 billion, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to reach $30 billion, system infrastructure software as a service to reach $20 billion, and platform as a service (PaaS) to reach $10 billion by 2016.
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