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Accenture Cloud Platform
Powering the Enterprise Cloud
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

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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.

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What’s needed to achieve the full benefit
of Cloud in today’s complex landscape?
SPEED AND AGILITY
Accelerate service development
and deployment to automate and accelerate
solution delivery.
COST EFFICIENCY
AND OPTIMIZATION
Cut costs and improve ROI with streamlined
and optimized resources gaining better
information on usage and cost management.
GOVERNANCE
AND CONTROL
Centralized cloud governance and
control with analytics and policies to provide
visibility, accountability, and compliance.
Customizable experience and multiple cloud
choices providing both technical
and business alignment.
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FLEXIBILITY OF CHOICE

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
What’s distinctive about the Accenture Cloud Platform

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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.
What’s distinctive about the Accenture Cloud Platform

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
What’s distinctive about the Accenture Cloud Platform

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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.
What’s distinctive about the Accenture Cloud Platform

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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.
What’s distinctive about the Accenture Cloud Platform

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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.

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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