Hewlett-Packard Company and Accenture on Monday announced an alliance to provide IT outsourcing services to enterprises.
The two firms will focus on migrating legacy mainframe applications to next generation architectures and platforms as well as supporting “backwards” integration with legacy applications.
These new services will give enterprises a faster and simpler way to harness IT assets while minimizing costs and risk.
The alliance formalizes a three-year collaboration developed to support the full lifecycle of complex Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, among the most difficult to implement and scale globally.
The two companies have already collaborated on 15 engagements and developed repeatable best practice methodologies for ERP outsourcing.
Today’s announcement builds on this heritage to provide customers with a single point of contact and accountability for program management.
Speaking about the partnership, Mr. Niyi Tayo, managing director, Technology, Accenture, said, there are new technologies and solutions, more data than ever before, legacy and new systems coming together, an upsurge in collaboration inside and outside the enterprise, more of everything digital driving businesses.
Accenture HPE solutions include, private cloud for the Hybrid Cloud, Automated and highly scalable private cloud that minimizes upfront investment, improves scalability, rapidly deploys secure application environments and simplifies management.
The comprehensive service management—Real-time and predictive service monitoring, analytics services and automation that delivers superior results with business-class monitoring, five 9s reliability, scalability, enhanced service quality, greater predictability, increased agility and cost optimization
It also has the data-driven digital analytics, customizable and scalable architectures that improve analytics, performance and digital capabilities with seamless integration, reduced TCO, enhanced innovation and performance, through an automated SAP environment that speeds business outcomes.
The Accenture HPE solutions has the adaptive networking, agile and optimized next-generation networking that enables service velocity and agility in the cloud and optimizes high-performance, high-density environments across distributed operations, all while reducing total cost of ownership.
According to Mr. Faisal Aljudi, regional manager, Software Sales, Africa, HPE, the HP Alliance ONE Partner of the Year Awards are presented to an exclusive set of HP alliance members in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments in the development and delivery of innovative solutions that achieve standard-setting levels for business excellence and client satisfaction.
The HP Software Systems Integrator of the Year award acknowledges the industry leading systems integration work Accenture does to help joint clients achieve tangible results.
This is the second consecutive year Accenture has received this award. Accenture Named 2011 HP Alliance ONE Systems Integrator Partner of the Year 2011 October.
HP Alliance ONE Partner of the Year Award in the category of Global Alliances — Systems Integrator. This year marks the first time Accenture has won the award.
Accenture Receives Two HP Partner of the Year Awards 2013 June.
HP Alliance One Partner of the Year for Information Optimization and HP Software Systems Integrator of the Year Accenture Receives HP Partner One Global Solution Partner of the Year Award for Big Data in April 2015.