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Accenture defines cloud computing as “the dynamic provisioning of IT capabilities (hardware, software or services) from third parties over a network."
A variety of factors are converging to make cloud computing eminently possible—and its promise of rapid, pay-as-you-go scalability is immensely attractive to CIOs under pressure to do more with less.
In fact, Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step forward in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a role in enabling high performance.
Like any disruptive technology, cloud computing brings with it challenges as well as opportunities. Accenture Technology Labs is in the business of identifying emerging technologies and helping to ready them for commercial use. CIOs considering the pros and cons of cloud computing are invited to benefit from our insights to help them formulate a strategy around cloud computing.
Accenture views software as a service (SaaS) as one layer of the cloud—the application layer. Defined as a way to subscribe to software on-demand, instead of an application that an organization must buy, maintain and upgrade itself, SaaS can accelerate ROI with faster application deployment, lower IT costs and the flexibility to scale technical capacity up or down, depending on business cycles.
Accenture is working with our alliance partners such as Microsoft as well as with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services to build applications that leverage cloud capabilities.