{"id":1125,"date":"2014-07-20T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/accenture-ops-infra-merge_072014\/"},"modified":"2014-07-20T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T12:08:00","slug":"accenture-ops-infra-merge_072014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/accenture-ops-infra-merge_072014\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture makes significant As-a-Service play by bringing together Operations, Cloud and Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s time to wake up and smell the roses, people. The services industry is going through its most seismic challenge as increasingly sophisticated enterprise clients are looking to reduce their reliance on labor-based services and clunking archaic on-premise technology. \u00a0<\/strong>While some services and consulting firms have their heads buried in the sand, clearly in denial that the services model has already<\/em> entered into a fundamental shift, others are recognizing that they need to get ahead of this – and fast.<\/p>\n The services industry is going through a secular change and it will never be like it was<\/em>, where trillions of dollars were spent maintaining dysfunctional systems and funding huge armies of staff to fumble their way through managing non-standard and often obsolete processes. Those days are fading fast and that pie is shrinking for providers and consultants still feeding off the legacy enterprise operations beast.<\/p>\n We ran a study earlier this year that explored the role of technology when enterprises outsource their business operations, and the findings from almost 200 major enterprises couldn’t be clearer: half of today’s enterprises are expecting to take the leap to enable their business operations with new technology tools and platforms in barely a two-year<\/em> time-frame.<\/p>\n