Accenture and Microsoft have teamed up to launch the Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure.
The platform, which is being created through Avanade, is designed to help enterprises build and manage enterprise-wide cloud infrastructure and applications.
According to Accenture, the Hybrid Cloud Solution delivers new technologies to migrate and manage applications between private and public clouds in a controlled, seamless and automated way from a single console.
Pierre Nanterme, chairman and CEO, Accenture, said, “Our expanded relationship with Microsoft represents a game-changing proposition that addresses the biggest concerns and complexities our clients face as they look to leverage the cloud. With new demands being placed on IT departments every day, enterprises need to smartly connect their infrastructure, software applications, data and operations capabilities in order to become agile, intelligent, digital businesses. This unique collaboration with Microsoft and Avanade is one of Accenture’s most strategic and important initiatives for driving enterprise-wide cloud adoption.”
The Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution-Microsoft is being piloted at Freeport-McMoRan, an international natural resource company, which is using the solution to prototype a new Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform to improve mining operations by securely connecting, managing and capturing machine-generated data from the trucks, drills and other assets in the mine.
The result platform will provide operations supervisors with a role-based mobile dashboard to analyse and react to near real-time situations in the mine, enabling supervisors to take immediate actions on items that impact mine production.