Gigabit Magazine – August 2019

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Philippe Chauffard,

Managing Director, Accenture Intelligent

Cloud Infrastructure

“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,” Chauf-

fard 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

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“ Accenture has given

me the opportunity

to lead programs

that would not have

been possible with

other companies

in terms of scale

and complexity”

provides information to support

the management and optimisation

strategies. Lastly, Chauffard explains,

is Security. “It’s something that is con-

tinuously 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 plat-

form, and choosing and operating

the correct piece of software again

relies on Chauffard’s advice: trans-

formation, evolution and optimisation

need to happen, not for their own

sakes, but in support of the overall

business case.

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