{"id":17868,"date":"2015-10-07T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=236531"},"modified":"2015-10-07T15:39:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:39:49","slug":"accenture-enhances-its-cloud-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/accenture-enhances-its-cloud-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture enhances its Cloud Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2014\/04\/accenture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-182112 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2014\/04\/accenture-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Business consulting firm Accenture had released an enhanced version of its Accenture Cloud Platform, designed to improve its ability to help with the governance and control of cloud applications.<\/p>\n<p>Accenture Cloud Platform exists to help companies manage their cloud service portfolio in a flexible and scalable way. It covers both public and private cloud resources and integrates with technologies such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.<\/p>\n<p>Accenture claims the latest tweaks reduce the time to implement new cloud solutions, improve the cost efficiency and optimization of IT, and enhance the governance and control of cloud management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganizations of all sizes are increasingly adopting As-a-Service operating models as they look for greater operational agility, and doing so requires the right cloud management tools,\u201d said Jack Sepple, MD of, Cloud and Security at Accenture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis release of the Accenture Cloud Platform improves organizational capabilities to manage cloud sprawl, reducing the time needed to deploy cloud resources while providing a greater ability to innovate and integrate new solutions into the cloud quicker than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accenture is being quite proactive around the cloud these days, having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/09\/16\/accenture-to-buy-cloud-sherpas-to-help-enterprise-clients-navigate-the-cloud\/\">acquired<\/a> Cloud Sherpas last month to boost its cloud consulting offering, especially for companies looking to make their initial transition. The fact that this announcement coincides with Amazon\u2019s AWS re:Invent event is probably not a coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business consulting firm Accenture had released an enhanced version of its Accenture Cloud Platform, designed to improve its ability to help with the governance and control of cloud applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2263,3525,823,1976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accenture","category-cloud-platform","category-consulting","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868","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=17868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17869,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17868\/revisions\/17869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}