Application Managed Services

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Application managed services

Run to new: Outpace change with value from gen AI and cloud.

Why application managed services matter

80%

of enterprises will have deployed gen AI-enabled applications by 2026

70%

of application spending will be directed to cloud by 2027

Conquer complexity, unleash value

Bring full-spectrum change to application managed services by integrating emerging value sources—like gen AI, cloud and new technology—with traditional approaches.

Advance your digital core with integrated cloud, applications, infrastructure, data, security and processes to deliver ‘everything as a service’ and drive continuous reinvention.

Foster experimentation and drive innovation and continuous improvement across the tech delivery lifecycle using generative AI, predictive AI and intelligent automation.

Progressively modernize applications by leveraging the existing tech landscape and enabling strategic investments with the business case for a shared modernization mindset.

Shift from Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to Experience Level Agreements (XLAs) to foster end-to-end accountability and business value commitments. Focus on experience-led design and development while creating user-centric solutions.

Achieve enterprise security, availability and reliability with an operations approach that is powered by ecosystems, real-time data insights and a cloud-native mindset.

What you’ll achieve

Lower costs, beter results

Rethinking business and IT can yield up to 50% TCO reduction, 30% increase in business user satisfaction and 30% improvement in business outcomes. 

Tech composability and speed

Reimagining applications can result in a 35% velocity increase and 60% of your applications migrated and modernized.

Business agility and resilience

Scaling automation and observability can deliver up to 4x improvement in speed-to-value, 60% reduced outages and 99.9% application availability.

What’s trending in application managed services

Blog

Rethinking application managed services

It’s time to think differently about application managed services. To use an old industry adage, it can’t simply be about “your mess for less” any longer. We need to aim for much “less mess” with more speed and innovation.

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Perspective

How application transformation unlocks cloud value

Today, many businesses are not realizing the full benefits from cloud migration that they expect. That’s why it’s time to adopt application transformation and a “migrate-to-modernize” strategy as the path to cloud value.

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Perspective

AI for everyone

With innovations like ChatGPT dominating headlines, the world is waking up to the transformative potential of generative AI. Find out how AI working side-by-side with people will impact science, business and society itself.

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Research Report

Cloud value: Navigating the cloud adoption journey

Accenture surveyed 800 senior IT executives to gauge the success of the cloud adoption journey and expected cloud business value.

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Research Report

Leading with edge: How to reinvent with data and AI

Edge enables the rapid processing of data close to its source and plays a key role in evolving AI for the enterprise. Our research reveals how companies across the globe are using edge, and how they can scale its value.

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Application managed services

Why application managed services matter

80%

70%

Conquer complexity, unleash value

What you can do

Reinforce your digital foundation

Scale generative AI-led automation

Reimagine applications with progressive modernization

Champion experience service levels

Create observability with real-time data insights

What you’ll achieve

Lower costs, beter results

Tech composability and speed

Business agility and resilience

Let there be change