You’re headed toward the cloud. But what about your legacy organization? Accenture’s implementation experience points to three ways you can effectively manage your cloud strategy while always keeping your legacy organization in mind.

2. HOW DO YOU
LEAD INTO
THE FUTURE
Are you ready for the challenges of adding
cloud to your legacy operations?

3. TECHNOLOGY
WITH EXISTING
SYSTEMS?
WHILE INTEGRATING THE LATEST

4. DO SYNERGIES EXIST
BETWEEN YOUR LEGACY
OPERATION AND
THE NEW BUSINESS?
Operationally, companies need to reconcile
their legacy, standard operating procedures
with the cloud organization’s organic agility.

5. WHAT’S THE BEST WAY
TO INTEGRATE LEGACY IT
RESOURCES WITH CLOUD
RESOURCES AND SYSTEMS?
Until the company has solidly integrated the
new cloud-based capabilities, they must learn
how to operate in a multi-speed way.

6. WITH CONVICTION,
STRONG OPERATIONAL
ALIGNMENT AND A CLEAR
EXECUTION ROADMAP
You can successfully integrate your
cloud business at the operational level

7. CONSIDER THE
OPERATING MODE
CHALLENGES
You need to reconcile legacy
standard operating procedures
with the cloud organization’s
organic agility. In some cases,
that will require introducing
multi-speed IT strategies and
reskilling for employees to
function in the cloud environment.
You don’t want the digital
platform to become just another
box on the org chart. This is the
transformation engine you need
to compete, so IT and business
leadership need the conviction
to say “Get on board.”
INTEGRATE
WITH CONVICTION
CREATE A DETAILED
PLAN FOR CLOUD
ADOPTION
Make a clear-eyed assessment
about how to position the cloud
organization in the larger
enterprise, then create
your strategy.

8. USING CLOUD
TO FUEL DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION
With Accenture’s help, Towergate has rotated to “the new” by migrating
its IT infrastructure to the Azure Cloud, deploying new telephony and
network solutions, and establishing a digitally enabled work environment.
SUCCESS
Achieve approximately 30% annual run rate cost savings, which
translate into savings of about £4 million (US$5 million) per year,
improve user experiences with new tools, a single service desk and
enhanced self-service capabilities, more easily collaborate across
departments, thereby making the company more agile and responsive
to customer needs, reduce IT incidents and outages, and make better,
faster decisions, based on greater visibility into its operations.
LEARNING FROM CLOUD-BASED TRANSFORMATIONS

9. MOVING
HEALTHCARE
TO THE CLOUD
AVALON HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS
Avalon Healthcare Solutions wanted to accelerate service delivery
with a 100% cloud-based claims editor.
SUCCESS
Accenture helped develop a portal for providers, patients and health plans
to provide appropriate access to data, claims and prior authorization.
Avalon can now edit up to 150K claims an hour (856 milliseconds)
with 99% uptime and 99.5% accuracy. Infrastructure, network and
security devices from the cloud.
LEARNING FROM CLOUD-BASED TRANSFORMATIONS

10. SERIOUS ABOUT
CLOUD?WAYS TO HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN3HERE ARE
How to adopt cloud with conviction

11. Create a top-to-bottom agile organization,
not just in development but for every area
of the company. Manage projects and
services in “sprints and scrums” with
clearly assigned responsibilities.
GO AGILE2
Reduce IT drag; embark on a lean mission
for workloads and de-commission services
you no longer use.
GET RID OF
EXCESS BAGGAGE
3
Train employees in cloud solutions, tools
and apps. Make a “cloud first” pledge for
all your future innovations.
GET THE ENTIRE
ORGANIZATION
ON BOARD
1

12. WITH CLOUD,
THERE’S NO
EASY BUTTON
ADOPTING CLOUD WITH
CONVICTION REQUIRES
• Resolute leadership
• Strong operational alignment
• A clear execution roadmap

13. FIND OUT MORE
WWW.ACCENTURE.COM/CLOUDCONVICTION
HOW CAN YOU
ENSURE CLOUD
INNOVATION
DELIVERS?
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