Accenture and Oracle embark on enterprise cloud adoption push

April 28, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Carloline Donnelly.

IT services firm Accenture has joined forces with Oracle to form a business group geared towards accelerating enterprise adoption of cloud technologies. The Accenture Oracle Business Group will provide enterprises with access to industry-specific services built using Oracle’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.

The hope is, by offering firms access to services designed with the needs of their industry in mind, Accenture and Oracle can help them make the move off-premise more quickly by doing a lot of the preparatory work on their behalf. The delivery of these services will be supported by Accenture and Oracle’s joint workforce, which includes 52,000 consultants and 20,000 Java professionals…

These, the companies claim, will be on hand to help enterprise users plot their cloud moves in the first instance and provide ongoing maintenance support for their deployments…

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