“ Accenture has given me the opportunity to lead programs that would not have been possible with other companies in terms of scale and complexity ”
— Philippe Chauffard , Managing Director , Accenture Intelligent Cloud Infrastructure provides information to support the management and optimisation strategies . Lastly , Chauffard explains , is Security . “ It ’ s something that is continuously evolving , and therefore you need to be able to enforce a set of standard security functions and services .” All four capabilities can be applied via a management platform , and choosing and operating the correct piece of software again relies on Chauffard ’ s advice : transformation , evolution and optimisation need to happen , not for their own sakes , but in support of the overall business case .
“ We ’ re not going to see many more ‘ big bang ’ – 12 months and we ’ re done for the next 10 years – transformations . People are becoming more thoughtful ,” says Chauffard . “ It ’ s going to be much more of an ongoing migration , evolution and modernisation of the application landscape .” The slower , measured , business case driven approach doesn ’ t do away with everything and build a new cloud-based company from scratch . “ It ’ s a multi-threaded evolution across multiple applications ,” Chauffard explains . “ Starting from your existing application landscape , there are going to be some applications that can just be lifted and shifted to the cloud with minimal work and cost . Some will need more of a remediation , and some applications you ’ re going to have to rewrite from scratch . Some applications will happily stay forever in the legacy system and will eventually die away several years later , because there is no business case to rewrite them or move them or do something with them .” The important step , and what gives Chauffard ’ s plan its natural , evolutionary pace , is the firm rule that any new applications or technologies
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