{"id":13904,"date":"2015-04-27T14:52:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=223472"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:52:46","slug":"accenture-oracle-form-business-unit-to-accelerate-cloud-uptake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/accenture-oracle-form-business-unit-to-accelerate-cloud-uptake\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture, Oracle form business unit to accelerate cloud uptake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_138951\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2013\/05\/Handshake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-138951\" alt=\"Accenture and Oracle are forming a business unit to accelerate cloud  uptake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2013\/05\/Handshake-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Accenture and Oracle are forming a business unit to accelerate cloud uptake<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oracle and Accenture are teaming up to create a joint business unit that will help mutual customers move more quickly onto (mostly Oracle) cloud platforms.<\/p>\n<p>According to the companies the Accenture Oracle Business Group will bring together technologies and consulting power in order to help customers implement cloud-based services, which includes helping those clients tailor their business processes to those technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Kurian, president, product development at Oracle said: \u201cBy providing a single process to implement end-to-end mission- critical services, the Accenture Oracle Business Group is ideally positioned to help our customers realize the true benefits of cloud computing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group will offer vertically-integrated solutions built using Oracle\u2019s software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service offerings, supported by fleets of Accenture consultants skilled in Oracle and Java tech \u2013 who will also help implement cloud readiness and data migration strategies for clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding on our 23-year alliance relationship, the Accenture Oracle Business Group combines Accenture\u2019s deep industry and technology experience with Oracle\u2019s expansive set of cloud solutions to deliver client value not found elsewhere in the market today,\u201d said Stephen Rohleder, group chief executive for North America, Accenture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is part of our strategy to take advantage of Oracle\u2019s leading technologies and build our business together for the future. It is a game-changer for our clients, Oracle, and Accenture,\u201d Rohleder said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle and Accenture are teaming up to create a joint business unit that will help mutual customers move more quickly onto (mostly Oracle) cloud platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2263,1976,1018,447,169,55,59,2411,2412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accenture","category-news-analysis","category-oracle","category-paas","category-platform-as-a-service","category-saas","category-software-as-a-service","category-stephen-rohleder","category-thomas-kurian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13934,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13904\/revisions\/13934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}