Accenture & Google Cloud transform enterprise networking with Cloud WAN

Key Takeaways

[Music] I'm Scott Alfuri, global lead for the Accenture Google Business Group. We bring Accentur's industry, functional, and technology expertise married to Google's innovative technologies. We help clients identify areas of growth, new markets and segments to enter, and operational efficiencies to realize business reinvention. Our unique partnership with Google is about delivering transformation at scale. And I'm excited to share our next joint collaboration between Accenture and Google Cloud with Google Cloud's WAN solution. Every day and all over the world, our Accenture and Google teams work with the world's largest brands and governments to advance their Google Cloud-based digital core. Our clients seek Accenture's leadership to architect the interaction between computing power and connectivity securely across their enterprises. Think continuous reinvention at scale. This is where the Google Cloud WAN solution comes in. First, companies will now have more options to integrate their partners, boost their network performance, and improve their security posture on a global scale. Imagine a cloudpowered digital core that's unified with global connectivity. Second, we're making it possible to leverage Google's global private network to bring critical services and applications across the internet, clouds, and data centers. Accenture will help clients extend Google's crosscloud network benefits to enterprises and their employees accessing software as a service, cloud, and internet applications. This ensures optimal user experiences with global reach, low latency, and reliability. We'll bring cloud security and connectivity services with ISVS and service providers as a tightly integrated ecosystem to simplify business operations. This optimizes service extensions, observability, and unified networking. And with a more resilient enterprise network backbone, companies will be better positioned to futureproof their wide area network. This enables scale generative AI services, empowers the agentic solutions of the future while caring for critical sovereignty requirements. Partnering with Google cloud WAN capabilities enables us to bring planetcaled network services, value added capabilities and deliver across five fundamentals. Performance, security, reliability, total cost of ownership and operator simplicity through a single network pane of glass. We cannot be more excited about our partnership with Google Cloud to enable continuous reinvention at scale. Accenture is thrilled to partner with Google to bring the power of Google Cloud Van to businesses globally. As we talk to our customers, we know they face challenges with network complexity. They have concerns around security and of course with all that comes rising costs. Google Cloud Van is a managed global VAN solution that unifies enterprise backbones and SD vans into a single secure global network. And the most distinctive point, it is built on Google's private backbone spanning over 2 million miles of fiber across 200 plus countries. So the performance, reliability, and scalability are all unmatched. And Accenture's role in this is very exciting. We will bring in our highly qualified global workforce along with assets such as the cloud network operator. Plus, we will leverage Google's premier tier network, crosscloud network, and crosscloud interconnect. So, what will this do for our customers? It'll simplify operations. It'll enhance security, governance, and compliance. We will enable our customers with zero touch provisioning, automated workflows, and a single pane of glass for managing network infrastructure on a global scale. This will provide high reliability and low latency and a seamlessly integrated thirdparty ecosystem while offering native security services such as Sassy and SDWAN. Customers will glean the benefits from Accentur's deep technical skills and industry prowess combined with Google Cloud's unparalleled products and infrastructure. We are confident that the two powerhouses Google Cloud and Accenture are perfectly poised to take our customers across industries through gamechanging network modernization, cloud adoption acceleration, and total enterprise reinvention. [Music]