Accenture Named a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Hybrid Managed Infrastructure Services, North America
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been recognized as a Leader in Gartner's 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Hybrid Managed Infrastructure Services in North America. Gartner emphasizes that companies must adopt a 'cloud-first' strategy to lower infrastructure costs by up to 40% by 2022. Karthik Narain, head of Accenture Cloud First, noted that the firm enhances cloud operations through high automation and financial transparency. The report evaluates 20 leading service providers on their execution and vision, categorizing them into Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries, and Niche Players.
- Accenture named a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for 2020 in North America.
- Gartner's assessment highlights Accenture's strong execution in cloud and managed services.
- The recognition underscores Accenture's commitment to helping clients with digital transformation.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been named as a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Hybrid Managed Infrastructure Services, North America.
Accenture’s position in the Leaders quadrant comes as Gartner cites that “by 2022, organizations that fail to align business units’ digital product development with a centralized sourcing strategy for a digital platform will have infrastructure costs up to
“Companies need a ‘cloud-first’ strategy to accelerate their digital transformation. This requires fundamentally different thinking about all aspects of your business, including how you operate your IT estate. It means continuously managing consumption, capacity, performance, security and crucially – cost,” said Karthik Narain, who leads Accenture Cloud First. “Accenture helps companies run and optimize in the cloud by implementing a modern infrastructure framework that features high automation, self-service, faster deployment of services and financial transparency to yield the value, speed and innovation a digital business needs.”
For the report, Gartner evaluated 20 leading service providers’ ability to deliver data center managed services in North America relating to data center outsourcing, hybrid infrastructure managed services, private cloud/mainframe/ERP hosting managed services, etc. Gartner assessed each organization's ability to execute and completeness of vision to place them into four groups: Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries and Niche Players.
*Source: 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Hybrid Managed Infrastructure Services, North America, Mark Ray, Daniel Barros, Stephanie Stoudt-Hansen, Andrew Miljanovski, Leah Ciavardini, 9 June 2020.
For clients outside North America, Accenture provides a copy of Gartner’s June 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Hybrid Managed Infrastructure Services, Asia Pacific and Europe.
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