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Accenture and AWS partner together to accelerate customer innovation
Built on over a decade of collaboration , the Accenture AWS Business Group ( AABG ) is dedicated to accelerating customers ’ digital transformation and innovation
The Accenture AWS Business Group ( AABG ) combines the technical expertise and industry knowledge of Accenture and AWS through a unified approach . Amazon CEO Andy Jassy coined an internal slogan “ there ’ s no compression algorithm for experience ”. Experience is at the core of the AABG ; built on 14 + years of collaboration and more than 100,000 completed migrations to AWS cloud . Sara Alligood , Worldwide Leader of AABG at AWS , explains : “ Our AABG team collaborates with enterprise customers to accelerate their digital transformation and innovation to deliver desired business value . “ We provide customers with an end-to-end consultative approach , powered by joint investments in world-class accelerators , industry-proven expertise and digital skills .”
Achieving innovation with Velocity Continuous innovation requires strategic end-to-end planning , from boardroom engagement through to continued measurement and improvement . The AABG brings use-case expertise to design and build end-to-end solution roadmaps unique to each client ’ s requirements . To support this , the AABG recently launched ‘ Velocity ’, a continuous innovation engine that allows customers to choose and deploy repeatable solutions aligned to their roadmap , using pre-configured blueprints to remove timeconsuming labour and cost-intensive work . “ If you think of Velocity as a foundational layer ,” adds Alligood , “ we ’ re then able to focus on industry-specific expertise to design and build the end-to-end solution that our customers need .”
Helping customers achieve industry-specific goals The AABG continues to make significant investments into industry solutions built on real use cases , unique industry challenges and white space opportunities , developing more than 40 differentiated solutions across industries including insurance , energy and utilities , life sciences , banking and manufacturing . Each solution is developed to address niche or unique opportunities for customers to innovate within their industry and , because they are built on Velocity , can be deployed at speed . Alligood concludes : “ Our portfolio of industry solutions covers all stages of a customer ’ s innovation journey , built by industry experts with those industry use cases at the heart of what we ’ re doing .”
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