>>from around the globe. It's the Cube with digital coverage of AWS reinvent 2020 sponsored by Intel AWS and our community partners. Welcome everyone to the Cube virtual and our coverage of the Accenture Executive Summit, which is part of AWS reinvent 2020. I'm your host Rebecca Knight. Today we're talking about the green Cloud and joining me is Kishore Dirk. He is Accenture Senior Managing director Cloud First Global Services lead. Thank you so much for coming on the show Key Shore. >>Nice to meet you, Rebecca. >>Great to have you. Yeah. So I want to start by asking you what it is that we mean when we say green cloud. We know the sustainability is a business imperative. So many organizations around the world are committing to responsible innovation lowering carbon emissions. But what does this? What does it? What does it mean when they talk about cloud from a sustainability perspective? >>E think it's about responsible innovation. Green Cloud is a thoughtful cloud first approach that helps boost profits and benefit the clients for helping reduce carbon emissions. Think about it this way. And you have a large number of data centers and each of these data centers are increasing by 14% every year, and this double digit growth comes with the price of Becca. What you're seeing is these global data centers consume a lot of power on the consumption is nearly pull into the consumption of a country like Spain. So the magnitude off the problem that is out there and and how do we pursue a green approach if you look at this hour? Accenture Analysis In terms of the migrations to public crowd, we have seen that we can reduce that by 59 million tons of CO two per year and with just the 5.9% reduction in top lighting emissions. And he creates this toe 22 million cars off the road. And the magnitude of reduction can go a long way. Meeting climate change commitments, particularly poor data sensitive businesses. >>Wow, that's incredible. What you're the numbers that you're putting forward are absolutely mind blowing. So how does it work? Is it a simple cloud migration? So, you know, >>when companies begin their cloud journey and and then they confront off with them a lot of questions. The decision to make uh, in this particular element sustainable in their solution and benefits. They drive and they had to make vice choices. And then they will gain unprecedented level of innovation, leading to both greener planet as well as a a green of balance sheet. I would say eso effectively. It's all about ambition. Greater the ambition, greater the reduction in carbon emissions. So from a cloud migration perspective, we look at it as a simple solution with approaches and sustainability. Benefits are that very based on things. It's about selecting the right cloud provider, very carbon thoughtful provider and the first step towards a sustainable cloud journey. And here we're looking at clown operators. You know, obviously they have different corporate commitments towards sustainability and that determines how they plan, how they build their the data centers, how they our and consume connections that operate there and how they retire their data centers. Then, uh, the next element that you want to do is how do you build it? Ambition, You know, for some of the companies, on average on Prem drives about 65% energy reduction and the carbon emission reduction of about 84% which is kind of OK and good I would say, But then, if you could go up to 98% by configuring applications to the cloud, that is significant benefit for for the world. And obviously it's a greener cloud that we're talking about. And then the question is, How far can you go? And, you know, obviously the companies have to unlock greater financial, societal environmental benefits. And essential has this cloud based circular operations and sustainable products and services that that you bring into play. So it's a It's a very thoughtful, broader approach that we're bringing and in terms off just a simple concept off migration s. >>So we know that in the covert era, shifting to the cloud has really become a business imperative. How is Accenture working with its clients at a time when all of this movement has been accelerated? How do you partner and what is your approach in terms of helping them with their migrations? >>Yeah, I mean, let me talk a little bit about the pandemic and the crisis that is there today, and and if you really look at that in terms of how your partner with a lot of our clients in terms of the cloud first approach. I'll give you a couple of examples. We've worked with Rolls Royce, McClaren, DHL and others as part of the ventilator UK Charon Consortium again to, uh, coordinate production of medical ventilators urgently needed for the UK Health Service. Many of these firms have taken similar initiatives in terms off, you know, from perfume manufacturers hand sanitizers. And to answer it is, is and again leading passion levels, making BP and again at the U. N. General Assembly. We launched the end to end integration Guy that helps company essentially to have a sustainable development goes. And that's how we're parting at a very large scale. Andi, if you really look at how we work with our clients and what's Accenture's role there? Uh, you know, from in terms of our clients, you know there are multiple steps that we look at. One is about planning, building, deploying and managing an optimal green color solution. And Accenture has this concept off helping clients for the platform to kind of achieve that goal. And here we're having. We're having a platform called Minor, which has a model called Green Clad Advisor, and this is the capability that helps you provide optimal green cloud, you know, a business case and obviously blueprint for each of our clients. And right from the start in terms off, how do we complete lower migration recommendation toe on improve solution accuracy to obviously bringing in the end to end perspective? You know, with this green clad adviser capability, we're helping our clients capture what we call it the carbon footprint for existing data centers and provide, uh, I would say the current cloud C 02 emissions core that you know, obviously helps them with carbon credits that can further their green agenda. So essentially, this is about recommending a green index score reducing carbon footprint for migration, migrating for green a cloud. And it really look at how accentuate itself is practicing. What we preached. 95% of the applications are in the cloud, and this migration has helped us. Uh, toe lied to about $42.5 million in benefit and in the third year, and and another three million analyzed costs that are saved through rightsizing service consumption. So it's a very broad umbrella and a footprint in terms of having engage societally with the U. N our clients. And what is it that we exactly bring to our clients in solving a specific problem? >>Accenture isn't is walking the walk as you say? >>Yes, So that that is that we we practice what we preach, and that is something that we take it to heart. We want toe have a responsible business and we want to practice it. And we want to advise our clients around that >>you are your own use case, and so they they know they can take your advice. So talk a little bit about the global, the cooperation that's needed. We know that conquering this pandemic is going to take a coordinated global effort and talk a little bit about the great reset initiative. First of all, what is that? Why don't we? Why don't we start there? And then we could delve into it a little bit more. >>Okay, so before we get to how we're cooperating, the great recent initiative is about improving the state of the world, and it's about a group of global stakeholders cooperating to simultaneously manage the direct consequences of their Cohen 19 prices andan spirit of this cooperation that you're seeing during Court 19 which will obviously either toe post pandemic project will the worth pressing issues. As I say, we're increasing companies to realize combined potential of technology and sustainable impact, to use enterprise solutions to address with urgency and scale and obviously multiple challenges that are facing our world. One of the ways that you're increasing, uh, companies to reach their Venus cloud with extensions cloud strategy is to build a solid foundation that is resilient. I would prefer to faster to the current as well as future times. Now, when you think of Cloud as the foundation that drives the digital transformation, it's about scale, speed, streamlining your operations and obviously reducing costs. And and as these businesses sees the construct of cloud first, they must remain obviously responsible and trusted. Now think about this right as part of our analysis that profitability can co exist with responsible and sustainable practices. Let's say that on the data centers migrated from on from the cloud based, we estimate, you know, that would reduce carbon emissions globally by 60 million tons for years. Andi, think about it this way, right? Easier Metric will be taking out 22 million cars off the road Thea Other examples that you've seen right in terms off the NHS work that they're doing in UK to build, uh, you know, a Microsoft teams were in based integration and the platform he rolled out for 1.2 million in it. Just users Onda. About 16,000 users there were able to secure instant messages, you know, obviously complete audio video calls and host working meetings across England. So this this work that we did with NHS is is something that we're collaborating with a lot of fools and powering businesses, not marriage. >>Well, you're vividly describing the business case for sustainability. What do you see as the future of cloud when thinking about it through this lens of sustainability and also going back to what you were talking about in terms of how you are helping your fostering cooperation within these organizations? >>That's a very good question, because so if you look at today, right, businesses are obviously environmentally aware, and they are expanding efforts to decrease power consumption, carbon emissions, and they want to run a sustainable operational efficiency across all elements of the business. And this is an increasing trend. And there is that option off energy efficient infrastructure in the global market. And this trend is the cloud. First thinking and with the right cloud migration that we've been discussing is what unlocking new opportunity, like clean energy transitions enabled, enabled by cloud based geographic analysis, material based reductions and better data insights. And this is something that, well, we'll drive with obviously faster analytics platform that is out there now. The sustainability is actually the future of business, which is companies that have historically different the financial security or agility benefits to cloud. Now sustainability becomes an imperative for them and our own experience. Accenture's experience with cloud migrations We have seen 30 to 40% total cost of ownership savings on its driving. Ah, greater workloads, flexibility, better service, somebody utilization and obviously more energy efficient public clouds that cost obviously well, that that drive a lot of these enterprise own data centers. So in our view, what we're seeing is that this this, uh, sustainable cloud position helps helps companies to a drive a lot of the goals, in addition to their financial and other goals. >>So what should organizations who are who are watching this interview and saying, Hey, I need to know more. What do you recommend to them and what? Where should they go to get more information on Green Cloud. >>You know, if you're if you're a business leader and you're thinking about which cloud provider is good, how should applications be modernized to meet our day to day needs Which cloud driven innovation should be priorities? Uh, you know, that's why Accenture, uh, from the Cloud First organization and essentially to provide the whole stack of cloud services to help our clients become a cloud first business. You know, it's all about exhibition. The digital transformation innovating faster, creating differentiated and sustainable value for our clients. And we're powering it up with 70,000 cloud professionals, $3 billion investment and bringing together unmasked depth and breadth of cloud services for our clients in terms of plant solutions and obviously the ecosystem partnership that we have that we're seeing today, Andi assets that help our clients realize that goes on and again toe do reach out to us way can help them to two men, obviously an optimal, sustainable cloud for solution that meets the business needs and being unprecedented levels of innovation. Our experience will be an advantage. And now more than ever, Rebecca. >>So just closing us out here, Do you have any advice for these companies who are navigating a great deal of uncertainty? We What? What do you think? The next 12 to 24 months. What do you think that should be on the minds of CEOs as they go >>forward. So as CEOs are thinking about rapidly leveraging cloud migrating to cloud off, one of the elements that we want them to be thoughtful about is can they do that with unprecedented level of innovation, but also build a greener planet and a greener balance sheet? If we can achieve this balance and and kind off have, ah, have, ah, world, which is greener. I think the world will win and we all along with extension of clients, will win. That's what I will say, Rebecca. >>That is an optimistic outlook, and I will take it. Thank you so much. Key shore for coming on the show. >>Thank you so much. >>That was Accenture's Key Shore. Dirk Rebecca. Night. 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>> Announcer: From around the globe, It's theCUBE with digital coverage of Accenture Executive Summit brought to you by Accenture. >> Welcome everyone to theCUBEs coverage of the Accenture Executive Summit part of AWS reinvent, I'm your host Rebecca Knight. Today we're welcoming back two CUBE alum, We have Kishore Durg, he is the Accenture Senior Managing Director, Cloud First Global Services Lead. Welcome back to the show Kishore. >> Thank you very much Rebecca, nice to meet again. >> Nice to meet you again, and Tristan Morel L'Horset, he is the Managing Director Accenture Cloud First North American Crows, welcome back to you Tristan. >> Great to be back and great to see you again, Rebecca. >> Exactly, even in this virtual format, it is good to see your faces. Today we're going to be talking about myNav and Green Cloud Advisor Capability. Kishore I want to start with you. So myNav is a platform that is really celebrating its first year in existence, November, 2019 is when Accenture introduced it, but it has new relevance in light of this global pandemic that we are all enduring and suffering through. Tell us a little bit about the myNav platform, what it is? >> Sure, Rebecca, we lost it and now what, 2019 and its a does that cloud platform to help our clients navigate the complexity of cloud and cloud decisions and to make it faster and obviously innovating the cloud. With the increased relevance and all the especially over the last few months with the impact of COVID crisis and exhibition of digital transformation, we are seeing the transformation or the acceleration to cloud much faster. This platform that we're talking about has enabled 140 clients globally across different industries to identify the right cloud solution, navigate the complexity, provide a cloud specific solution, simulate what our clients to meet the strategy business needs, and the plant are loving it. >> I want to go to you now Tristan, tell us a little bit about how myNav works and how it helps companies make good cloud choices. >> Yeah, so Rebecca, we've talked about cloud is more than just infrastructure and that's what myNav tries to solve for it. It really looks at a variety of variables, including infrastructure, operating model and fundamentally what clients' business outcomes our clients are looking for, and identify as the optimal solution for what they need and we designed this to accelerate, and we mentioned the pandemic, one of the big focus now is to accelerate. And so we worked through a three-step process. The first is scanning and assessing our client's infrastructure, their data landscape, their application. Second, we use our automated artificial intelligence engine to interact with... We have a wide variety and library of collective plan expertise, and we look to recommend what is the enterprise architecture and solution. And then third, before we aligned with our clients, we look to simulate and test this scaled up model, and this simulation gives our clients a way to see what cloud is going to look like, feel like and how it's going to transform their business before they go there. >> So tell us a little bit about that in real life now as a company so many of people are working remotely having to collaborate not in real life, How is that helping them right now, Tristan? >> So the pandemic has put a tremendous strain on systems because of the demand on those systems and so we talk about resiliency, we also now need to collaborate across data across people, I think all of us are calling from a variety of different places where last year we were all at theCUBE itself, and cloud technologies such as teams, Zoom that we're leveraging now has fundamentally accelerated and clients are looking to on board this for their capabilities, they're trying to accelerate their journey, they realize that now the cloud is what is going to become important for them to differentiate once we come out of the pandemic and the ability to collaborate with their employees, their partners, and their clients through these systems is becoming a true business differentiator for our clients. >> Kishore, I want to talk with you now about myNav multiple capabilities and helping clients design and navigate their cloud journeys. Tell us a little bit about the green cloud advisor capability and its significance particularly as so many companies are thinking more deeply and thoughtfully about sustainability. >> Yes, so since the launch of myNav, we continue to enhance capabilities for our clients. One of the significant capabilities that we have enabled is the lead cloud advisor. Today Rebecca a lot of the businesses are more environmentally aware and are expanding efforts to decrease power consumption and obviously carbon emissions and run a sustainable operations across every aspect of the enterprise. As a result, you're seeing an increasing trend in adoption of energy efficient infrastructure in the global market. And one of the things that we did a lot of research we found out is that there's an ability to influence our client's carbon footprint through a better cloud solution and that's what being green cloud advisor brings to us. In terms of a lot of the client connotation that we're seeing in Europe, North America and others, lot of our clients are accelerating to a green cloud strategy to unlock greater financial, societal and environmental benefit through obviously cloud-based circular operational and sustainable products and services. That is something that we are enhancing myNav and we're having active client discussions at these point of tome. >> So Tristan, tell us a little bit about how this capability helps clients make greener decisions? >> Yeah, well, let's start about the investments from the cloud providers in renewable and sustainable energy. They have... Most of the hyperscalers today, have been investing significantly on data centers that are run on renewable energy, some incredibly creative constructs on how to do that. And sustainability is there for a key item of importance for the hyperscalers and also for our clients who now are looking for sustainable energy. And it turns out this marriage is now possible, I can we re-marry the green capabilities of the cloud providers with a sustainability agenda of our clients. And so what we look into way the myNav works is it looks at industry benchmarks and evaluates our current clients capabilities and carbon footprint leveraging their existing data centers. We then look to model from an end-to-end perspective, how their journey to the cloud leveraging sustainable and data centers with renewable energy, we look at how their solution will look like and quantify carbon tax credits improve a green index score and provide quantifiable green cloud capabilities and measurable outcomes to our clients shareholders, stakeholders, clients, and customers. And our green plot advisor's sustainability solutions already been implemented at three clients, and in many cases in two cases has helped them reduce the carbon footprint by up to 400% to migration from their existing data center to a green cloud, very, very important item. >> That is remarkable. Now tell us a little bit about the kinds of clients, is this more interesting to clients in Europe? Would you say that it's catching on in the United States? what is the breakdown that you're seeing right now? >> Sustainability has becoming such a global agenda and we're seeing our clients tie this and put this at board level agenda and requirements across the globe. Europe has specific constraints around data sovereignty, where they need their data in country, but from a green a sustainability agenda we see clients across all our markets, North America, Europe, and our growth markets adopt this and we have seen case studies in all three markets. >> Kishore, I want to bring you back into the conversation, talk a little bit about how myNav ties into Accenture's cloud first strategy, your Accenture's CEO, Julie Sweet has talked about post COVID leadership requiring every business to become a cloud first business. Tell us a little bit about how this ethos is in Accenture and how you're sort of looking outward with it too? >> So Rebecca myNav is the launch pad to a cloud first transformation for our clients. Accenture, CEO Julie Sweet shared the Accenture cloud first and our substantial investment demonstrate our commitment and is delivering data value for our clients when they need it the most. And with the digital transformation requiring cloud at scale we're seeing that in the post COVID leadership it requires that every business should become a cloud business, and myNav helps them get there by evaluating the cloud landscape, navigating the complexity, modeling architecting and simulating an optimal cloud solution for our clients and as Tristan was sharing a greener cloud. >> So Tristan talk a little bit more about some of the real life use cases in terms of what are clients seeing? What are the results that they're having? >> Yes, thank you Rebecca. I would say two key things around myNav. the first is the iterative process, clients don't want to wait until they get started, they want to get started and see what their journey is going to look like. And the second is fundamental acceleration, the pandemic as we talked about has accelerated the need to move to cloud very quickly and myNav is there to do that. So how do we do that? First is generating the business cases. Clients need to know in many cases that they have a business case, and by business case we talk about the financial benefits as well as the business outcomes, the green cloud of impact sustainability on the impact. With myNav we can build initial recommendations using a basic understanding of their environment and benchmarks in weeks versus months with indicative value savings and the millions of dollars arranges. So for example very recently we worked with a global oil and gas company, and in only two weeks, we're able to provide an indicative savings worth $27 million over five years. This enabled the client to get started, knowing that there is a business case benefit and then iterate on it. And this iteration is, I would say the second point that is particularly important with myNav that we've seen in Bangalore clients, which is any journey starts with an understanding of what is the application landscape and what are we trying to do with those. These initial assessments that used to take six to eight weeks are now taking anywhere from two to four weeks. So we're seeing a 40 to 50% reduction in the initial assessment, which gets clients started in their journey. And then finally we've had discussions with all of the hyperscalers to help partner with Accenture and leverage myNav to prepared their detailed business case module as they're going to clients and as they're accelerating the client's journey. So real results, real acceleration and is there a journey? Do I have a business case? And furthermore accelerating the journey once we are by giving the ability to work in an iterative approach. >> I mean, it sounds as though the company that clients and employees are sort of saying, this is an amazing time savings look at what I can do here in a condensed amount of time, but in terms of getting everyone on board, one of the things we talked about last time we met Tristan was just how much... One of the obstacles is getting people to sign on and the new technologies and new platforms, those are often the obstacles and struggles that companies face. Have you found that at all? Or what is sort of the feedback that you're getting from employees? >> Yes, clearly there are always obstacles to a cloud journey. If there were an obstacles all our clients would be already fully in the cloud. Well, myNav gives the ability is to navigate through those to start quickly, and then as we identify obstacles we can simulate what things are going to look like, we can continue with certain parts of the journey while we deal with that obstacle, and it's a fundamental accelerator, whereas in the past one obstacle would prevent a client from starting, we can now start to address the obstacles one at a time while continuing and accelerating the client journey, that is the fundamental difference. >> Kishore, I want to give you the final word here, tell us a little bit about what is next for Accenture myNav and what we'll be discussing next year at the Accenture Executive Summit >> Sort of echo, we are continuously evolving with our client needs and reinventing for the future. For myNav SaaS green cloud advisor our plan is to help our clients reduce carbon footprint and again migrate to our greener cloud. And additionally, we're looking at two capabilities which includes sovereign cloud advisor with clients especially in Europe and others are under pressure to meet stringent data norms that Kristan was talking about, and the sovereignty advisor health organization to create an cloud architecture that complies with the green, I would say the data sovereignty norms that is out there. The other element is around data to cloud, we are seeing massive migration for a lot of the data to cloud, and there's a lot of migration hurdles that come within that, we have expanded myNav to support assessment capabilities for assessing applications, infrastructure, but also covering the entire estate, including data and the code level to determine the right cloud solution. So we are pushing the boundaries on what myNav can do, with myNav we have created the ability to take the guesswork out of cloud, navigate the complexity, we are lowering risks costs, and we are achieving client's strategic business objectives while building a sustainable lots with green cloud. >> Any platform that can take some of the guesswork out of the future I'm on board with. Thank you so much, Kristan and Kishore, this has been a great conference. >> Thank you Rebecca. >> Thank you Rebecca. >> Stay tuned for more of theCUBEs coverage of the Accenture Executive Summit, I'm Rebecca ca Knight. (upbeat music)