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April 07, 2014

Wheelings & Dealings: Accenture Partners with Orange Business Services to Expand Cloud Services

Accenture (News - Alert), a well-known IT services company, has partnered with Orange Business Service to offer better cloud computing products to their customers. Together, both these companies will be better equipped to offer business clients a smoother transition to cloud-based systems from their existing systems. The aim of this partnership is to penetrate into the European market, starting with the French companies.

This partnership between the two companies comes at a time when companies fully understand the power of cloud, but are reluctant to make the transition due to costs and logistical difficulties. Under this agreement, both the companies would help their clients to define a cloud strategy, change their existing IT infrastructure to cloud and eventually migrate their existing applications to the cloud system.

The expertise provided by these two companies can be crucial for large enterprises today because there are doubts on the existing cloud infrastructure. A survey conducted among 600 IT professionals by Zenoss, an IT provider,  shows that it will be several years before companies are ready to make a commitment to cloud technologies. This reluctance on the part of enterprises is because existing technologies are immature, and there are a lot of security and privacy issues surrounding cloud technologies that have yet to be worked out.  To assuage these apprehensions, and to give companies a better idea of what cloud computing can do to their business, Accenture has partnered with Orange Business Services (News - Alert). Also, since each company's strategy is unique, a customized solution is essential, and this is what the partnership aims to provide.

This partnership signals a new beginning for not just Accenture and Orange Business Services, but for the client enterprises as well because they get to make the best use of the combined expertise of both the companies. 




Edited by Alisen Downey
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