Outsourcing giant CIO sharing model with cloud computing

As the CIO of Iverson and the provider of IT services, CIO Frank wants to deliver better things to his internal customers that communicate cheaper and faster. "I am very confident that a better technical support can help people in many aspects of the business level," Accenture said, "but it needs to be better and cheaper." If you hit three more children, emphasize. It also began to become very noticeable. ”

Over the past few years, cloud computing has become very attractive to Essen.

Frank's first attempt to enter the cloud was an IaaS enrollment system five years ago. Now Frank is two degrees into cloud applications. He prepares to use IaaS as an infrastructure, the introduction of a single IP voice and data network, and actively seek servers, databases and enterprise data center storage virtualization. But this is just the beginning.

The outsourcing giant CIO shares his pattern of dealing with cloud computing.

1 clouds can take you to the place where you didn't dare go before

Five years ago, Accenture had different admissions systems in every country, and in the United States there was a custom software system. In another country, tracking is done through spreadsheets. Iverson eliminated IT systems in 40 countries, with a total of 210,000 employees and now only 90,000 employees. "It is impossible to implement this system in countries around the world and it is 40, if we want to work with American processes and systems," he said. Iverson said.

2. Resistance is fixed

Accenture believes that recruitment is a core competency in these businesses. Therefore, within the company's hope to recruit software can be special. "One of the benefits of SaaS is that it really pushes companies to think about what we really need to do." But recruiting via email is just a process, and the secret is software. Iverson said.
Some business users want all the new features to fit the way they used to. However, it is not important that people will understand the benefits of the new system over time and with targeted training and open communication.

3. Security is a red herring.

Security lets people focus more on what you want your information to be safe. But it is wrong to think that things can be more secure under their own control. Is your money safe at the bank or on your mattress? To transport the size of suppliers, can be more than any previous single enterprise in the treatment of security more investment. The key is to take cloud security seriously: testing, monitoring, review.

4. Change takes time

Iverson began to rationalize the application five years ago, abandoning the enterprise network and data center virtualization, and began to move towards IaaS. He weakened the company's application portfolio from 2100 systems down to 530. If you play it right, he can get you to move from the server to the server without having to consider the location of the hardware configuration. But this not only allows us to consider costs, but may also shift to other clouds. But IaaS remains an effective way forward. Cloud adoption is likely to be better for moderately small and start-up companies.

5. Legacy systems beyond your wildest imagination.

Most companies are caught up in generational software and hardware chaos, and you might think it's cheap and completely devalued, like cement shoes, but CIOs will be better off when they understand your past technical footprint.