Donald Rippert, CTO and Managing Director, Technology, Accenture (3:02)
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Combining Cisco Unified Computing System technologies together with Accenture's deep, industry-specific understanding of how technology impacts people, applications and business processes, enables us to help organizations move industry-specific, core enterprise legacy applications out of "quarantine" to a less expensive, more efficient, virtualized platform that scales based on transactional requirements.
Accenture and Cisco have recently expanded their strategic alliance relationship by forming the Accenture & Cisco Business Group, a virtual team that helps global organizations use IT as a strategic asset to reduce costs, drive revenue and deliver superior customer service by embedding data center virtualization, communication, and collaboration capabilities into their key business processes.
The Accenture & Cisco Business Group blends Cisco's advanced, unified computing technology with Accenture's deep understanding of the technology and its clients' infrastructure and application environments. Together, our clients have one single point of contact to design, build, and run Unified Computing solutions. This 'one team' approach helps to ensure that Cisco Unified Computing System solutions are seamlessly and effectively integrated into key business processes and the existing operations architecture, so that clients can become more agile, more quickly.
The Accenture & Cisco Business Group is announcing three "out-of-the-box" solutions based on the new Cisco Unified Computing System platform and Accenture's innovative, industrialized datacenter and application migration capabilities. With the Accenture Cisco Unified Computing System Solutions Suite, companies will be able to migrate their enterprise ERP and industry-specific high-performance computing applications to the less-expensive, more-efficient, virtualized platform.
Similarly, service providers will be able to offer their customers highly flexible "Infrastructure-as-a-Service" solutions that support an organization's "elastic data center" needs, enabling customers to run applications just as easily off-premise as on-premise, over secure and compliant channels, as needed. Our solutions can help deliver order-of-magnitude TCO reductions, increase business agility and scalability, and speed time to business value for our mutual clients.
