Accenture Avanade, and Microsoft have announced moves designed to extend their leadership in the market and commient to maximizing the value of the Microsoft ecosystem for clients. The actions include the appoinent of Debra (Debbie) Polishook, group chief executive – Accenture Operations, to the Avanade board of directors and greater invesents in new technology capabilities to accelerate the digital transformation of clients.
Debbie Polishook is an accomplished business leader with broad expertise in consulting services, business strategy execution, and operational excellence, having led numerous areas of business over her 30+ year career at Accenture. As group chief executive of Accenture Operations, Debbie is responsible for delivering Accenture’s comprehensive portfolio of business process and infrastructure services, and leads the company’s extensive cloud business. Her team of Operations professionals develop, sell and deliver differentiated intelligent infrastructure, cloud and business process services to drive transformational value and productivity for clients.
Since 2000, when Accenture and Microsoft created joint venture Avanade, the companies have worked together to deliver more than 10,000 projects for 4,000+ clients. With 24,000 Microsoft certifications across 75,000 Microsoft skilled professionals, the alliance has the largest number of Microsoft specialists in the industry. With cloud and digital innovations proving to deliver strong business value for clients, Microsoft’s three cloud strategy is fuelling an acceleration in more joint invesents that help clients maximize the results of adopting Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics 365.
For example, Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft helped COOP Italia tap into the flexibility and scalability of the public cloud with Microsoft Azure, while leveraging new technology like the Internet of Things (IoT) to reimagine the grocery shopping experience. Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft continue to share significant joint invesents including Accenture Hybrid Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure, implementing SAP on Microsoft Azure, and Accenture Connected Platform as a Service on Microsoft Azure, as well as invesents in the areas of security, data analytics, mixed reality, and artificial intelligence.
“Together, Avanade, Accenture and Microsoft share a common passion and vision for delivering bold innovation that makes a genuine impact on our clients, their customers, our people, and the broader Microsoft ecosystem,” said Adam Warby, Avanade CEO.
