Realizing the Potential of the Intelligent Business Cloud

Realizing the potential of the Intelligent Business Cloud

March 2015

It's so much more than the cloud you know

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Companies have leveraged the cloud

to become agile, digital businesses,

but few get everything they need—

or should be getting—from the cloud.

Now that’s about to change.

The next iteration of hybrid

cloud—what Accenture calls the

Intelligent Business Cloud—

is an open, scalable and

integrated approach to

managing the hybrid cloud

landscape from a single point.

Today every business is a digital business

Under pressure to innovate faster


…in less time

…with fewer resources

…and with greater flexibility

In the digital world, success comes from…Finding entirely new ways to increase the value of

every customer experience and business interaction,

not just doing things differently.

Digital businesses will exhibit some combination of

three factors that are enabled by cloud:

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Speed and agility

Consuming everything

as a service

Integration

But the history of cloud has been one of discrete offerings that solve only parts of the problem


This is like running a parcel service where the warehouse-to-door truck delivery and air-freight operations are exemplary, but the hand-off from truck to airport distribution center is haphazard.

What’s needed is cohesion.Where the entire operation is seamless and automated.

To experiment, adapt, analyze and collaborate at speed, organizations need the next evolution of hybrid cloud.

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A cloud environment that smartly connects all of the

capabilities required to outperform in a digital world


Intelligent business processes

Intelligent applicationsAnticipate and adjust to circumstances and context

Intelligent dataProtected and presented based on permissions and business process rules

Intelligent infrastructureConsumed as a service, on demand

Toward a new vision of cloud


Intelligent Business Cloud

This isn't just today’s hybrid cloud

with a silver lining. It’s Accenture’s vision of

an open, scalable, integrated platform….


That smartly connects the fundamental components of the intelligent digital business

The connective tissue:



The Intelligent Business CloudAn enterprise grade, managed cloud environment

The connective tissue:


How can you prepare for an intelligent future?


Get cloud religionCloud technology isn’t a trend – it’s the basis for your company’s whole intelligent digital business stance.

Design for “cloud first”The default must be about consuming services rather than building them.

Invest with business outcomes in mindCloud spending should tie directly to measurable business results.

Secure best-in-class talentThe most valuable talent will think in terms of digitally enabled platforms that span companies, not just departments.



















The digital world is smartly connected

The Intelligent Business Cloud

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Means your organization can

deliver “everything as a service”

and consume your core business

services on demand.

It means everything

needed to outperform in a

digital world that is smartly

connected.

Are you ready?


Get smartly connected today


Thank you

Please visit www.accenture.com/intelligentbusinesscloud

for futher details.

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