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Accenture: Vendor Profile Series for Cloud Professional Service Offerings

Accenture will be in all layers of the cloud – infrastructure, platform, software, and business process – but only for segments in its sweet spot (i.e., areas that take advantage of its strengths in industry knowledge, large-scale implementation, and complex operations). Cloud services are both an opportunity and a threat for all service providers, including Accenture, but IDC believes Accenture is behaving in a way that demonstrates its belief that, at least for Accenture, cloud services will be a net revenue gain. Accenture states its cloud pipeline has grown more than fourfold over the past year, and its cloud resources have also grown to keep in synch with the pipeline. An IDC Whitepaper