New platform helps customers make a business case and predict the financial impact of the switch to the cloud.
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The new myNav platform from Accenture is designed to make migration simple for companies that have not yet made the leap to the cloud. The myNav process starts with building a business case for the migration, continues to design the solution and ends with visualizing the new model.
Kishore Durg, a global leader in cloud and growth and strategy at Accenture, said myNav can offer multiple architectures with a client’s current configuration, a transition architecture, and a future status to account for business growth.
“We help our clients decide in advance what the business case is and which provider they should use and then we visualize the solution for them,” he said.
Durg said the myNav is based on what Accenture has learned from 30,000 cloud migration projects for clients. Accenture has spent three years developing the algorithm that makes architecture recommendations in myNav.
“That is the most important IP address that we bring to myNav,” he said. “We have filed a patent on these simulation capabilities.
Currently, companies need to merge information from multiple sources if they want to migrate activities to the cloud.
“Choices can confuse you in terms of where you want to go, and you have to understand this complexity to navigate it,” he said.
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Recommendations from the platform are based on industry-specific data sets with data on IT cost structures, including personnel and hardware and software needs. Durg said Accenture has worked with ecosystem partners to develop these datasets.
“This gives myNav the ability to project cost savings for specific industries,” he said.
The platform designs a cloud infrastructure based on the parameters of a company and then visualizes the solution. A customer can also request a recommendation on how to adjust the architecture based on future business changes, such as expanding the user base or adding a new product. The analysis ends with a bill of material with performance statistics and financial forecasts.
Accenture research shows that about two-thirds of the companies that have switched to the cloud have not seen the expected benefits.
“What happens in the end is that you’re not doing it right and you’re paying for a data center and a cloud provider,” he said.
The survey of 200 companies with a turnover of $ 1 billion per year asked about cost savings, speed on the market, business opportunities and improved service levels. Respondents cited security and compliance risk and the complexity of business and organization change as the two biggest obstacles to success.
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Accenture’s new platform helps clients plan a cloud migration, from developing the business case to planning the technical architecture to visualizing the results.
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