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5 steps to unlock new value with cloud modernization
5 steps to unlock new value with cloud modernization
Are you tapping into the full potential of cloud? Modernize for more value. Today, we’re living the latest chapter in…
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Andy Tay shared thisSuper proud to see Accenture recognised as the #1 company on Forbes' World's Best Management Consulting Firms 2026 list. In a time when every organisation is exploring how AI, data and technology can reshape their business, the real challenge isn't just adopting new tools. Lasting value requires more than technology alone. It takes deep industry expertise, innovation, and human ingenuity working together to help clients move faster, grow, and create sustainable outcomes. Helping organisations build a strong digital core, harness the power of data and AI, and reinvent how they operate creates the foundation for continuous reinvention and new sources of value and I'm incredibly proud of the work our teams do every day alongside clients to turn that vision into reality. Thank you to our clients, teams, and partners who make this possible. https://lnkd.in/eQxHNxww
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Andy Tay shared thisReally excited about the announcement of our Accenture partnership with Salford City FC this week. Having spent a good number of weekends over the years around both rugby and football (or soccer, as I now have to call it living in the US), one thing has always stood out to me: great clubs, and performances, are built on more than what happens on the pitch. They thrive because of the connections and experiences they create with supporters, communities, partners, and future generations of fans. That's why this partnership is so compelling. Working alongside Salford City FC, we will bring together data, AI, and technology to help strengthen supporter engagement, create new opportunities for growth, and build a platform for the club's future. From enhancing operations to evolving fan platforms and digital experiences, this partnership is about using technology to create more meaningful experiences and support the club's ambitious growth journey. Whether it's football, rugby, tennis or golf, I'm seeing the same trend across sports: organisations are looking for new ways to deepen engagement, better understand their audiences and unlock sustainable growth through a robust digital core powered by AI and data. Looking forward to what we'll build together with Salford City FC and seeing the impact for supporters both locally and around the world. https://lnkd.in/gmNV8cyqAccenture and Salford City Football Club Announce Partnership to Accelerate a New Era of Reinvention and GrowthAccenture and Salford City Football Club Announce Partnership to Accelerate a New Era of Reinvention and Growth
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Andy Tay shared thisIn the AI era, cloud powers the Digital Core, the technology foundation that moves companies from simply running the business to reinventing it. Which is why this recognition matters. Super proud to share that for the 6th consecutive year, Accenture has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Optimization and Transformation Services and placed highest on Ability to Execute and furthest on Completeness of Vision across all 17 providers. And in the companion Gartner Critical Capabilities report, Accenture scored highest across all six use cases: - Strategic Cloud Transformation - Rapid Data Center Exit (Lift-and-Shift) - Strategic TCO Reduction (Lift-and-Optimize) - Agile Cloud-Native DevOps - Managed Application - Efficient Operations None of this would be possible without our Clients; huge thank you for your trust! Equally, we are only as good as our Partners; massive thanks to all our technology ecosystem Partners! Super proud of the team. 🙌 #Accenture #EcosystemPartners #DigitalCore #Cloud #AI #CloudFirst #GartnerMagicQuadrant
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Andy Tay shared thisFalling AI costs should make AI cheaper. Yet for many organisations, AI spend continues to rise. That's not a contradiction. It's a sign that demand is growing faster than efficiency gains. As AI becomes embedded across more workflows, teams and business processes, the question is no longer just what AI costs. It's whether the value created justifies the investment. That's why I found this perspective on AI Tokenomics particularly relevant. Tokenomics is about connecting AI consumption to business outcomes and providing a framework for understanding where value is being created as adoption accelerates. The next AI advantage won't come from simply deploying bigger models. It will come from managing AI as an economic system and making smarter decisions about how AI is scaled across the enterprise. The goal is not just managing cost, but maximising value. Worth a read for anyone shaping the future of AI in their organisation: https://lnkd.in/g6GGFC8g Manish Sharma, Ajoy Menon, Lan Guan, Mike Eisenstein, Surya Mukherjee, Accenture
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Andy Tay shared thisMany mid-market companies are navigating how to adopt AI, modernise operations and scale, often with the same complexity as larger enterprises. But many are still caught between ambition and execution. That’s why we’re launching Accenture Edge. We’re bringing the strength of our enterprise transformation experience, along with our platforms, assets and industry expertise, into a model that is right-sized and built for how mid-market organisations actually operate. This is not about extending the enterprise playbook as-is. It’s about delivering platform-led, ready-to-deploy solutions that help companies move faster, modernise core systems, adopt AI and simplify operations. Accenture Edge is designed to help clients move from strategy to execution with greater speed and clarity. https://lnkd.in/gq2GPS-NAccenture Launches Accenture Edge to Help Mid-Market Companies Harness AI and Reinvent How They OperateAccenture Launches Accenture Edge to Help Mid-Market Companies Harness AI and Reinvent How They Operate
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Andy Tay shared thisAI is accelerating faster than most organisations can absorb - one thing we are seeing across clients is ‘data’ showing up as a constraint. With the shift from experimentation to tech reinvention at scale, it really starts with getting ‘data’ right. AI-ready data is about how data is structured, governed, and made usable across the business. In a new Accenture report, we found that only 7% surveyed have progressed far enough in building AI-ready data capabilities required for scaled AI adoption of advanced AI. A strong data strategy, clear governance and an operating model that can scale goes a long way. That’s where we’re seeing the biggest impact and the organisations that get this right won’t just adopt AI. They’ll operationalise it. Curious where others are focusing: what’s been the biggest blocker to making data truly AI-ready? Read more about this report: https://lnkd.in/dNec2cNw Teresa Tung, Matthew Lancaster, Amit Bansal, Lan Guan, Arun Khurana, Matthew Green, Mudit SrivastavaAI-Ready Data for Advanced AI | Accenture ResearchAI-Ready Data for Advanced AI | Accenture Research
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Andy Tay shared thisGreat to spend time yesterday with Lula Samuel and the Seattle Accenture team for a Juneteenth leadership panel. Thank you to Trévaun Reeves and the PNW African American Employee Resource Group for bringing us together — these conversations matter. Juneteenth is both a moment to recognize the significance of June 19, 1865, and a reminder that progress requires continued awareness, dialogue, and action. Proud to be part of a community that leans into these discussions and keeps pushing forward — with intention. #Juneteenth #Leadership #Inclusion
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Andy Tay shared thisCIO Online recently published a piece on IT modernization traps, including a perspective I shared on cloud transformation. What we’re seeing more clearly now is that modernization isn’t a milestone, but a continuous discipline. Without ongoing modernization across architecture, data, operating models, talent and ways of working, technology investments struggle to deliver sustained business value or support AI at scale. That’s where the concept of the digital core becomes critical. It’s not just a set of systems, but the foundation that enables intelligence to flow from signal to action across the enterprise. As organizations push into AI and more agentic models, the real constraint isn’t access to technology, but whether the digital core is ready to support continuous reinvention and real-time decision making. The organizations getting this right are treating modernization as an ongoing capability, building a digital core that can evolve as fast as the business and turn intelligence into growth. Worth a read for leaders navigating the next phase of modernization: https://lnkd.in/eVUefj2a.
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Andy Tay shared thisAs AI innovation accelerates, the strength of your ecosystem is becoming a defining competitive advantage. It was great spending time last week at the Accenture Oracle Leadership Council with clients discussing how leaders are modernizing their digital core to scale AI and deliver real outcomes in mission‑critical environments. A highlight for me was the conversation with Sara Eaton (McKesson / Ontada) and Alex U. (Microsoft) on how Ontada is using Oracle as a data backbone, working closely with Microsoft through Oracle Database@Azure, to turn trusted cancer care data into insights that help save lives. We discussed how Ontada moved quickly to the cloud using Oracle as a data backbone, focusing not on disruption but on governance and continuity so teams could move faster and safer. Sara shared how data accessibility and AI are improving patient and clinician experiences, while Alex reinforced what it takes to scale these platforms responsibly at an enterprise level. Ontada’s journey is a strong reminder that modernization is the starting point and that a secure digital core enables speed, optionality, and better outcomes without sacrificing trust. Thank you Sara and Alex for sharing time with me. John Walsh, Samia Tarraf, Brian Kobylinski, Marc Gero, Susanna Crowder, Lynn Holmes, Jefferson Wang, Chris Howarth, Sanjay Mehta, Joanna Duff #AOLC2026
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Congratulations Laura. So well deserved! Thanks for all that you do for us, our clients, and our partners!!
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Great stuff Marty Rodgers. This really hits on what we’re seeing with clients right now —
the shift from isolated AI use cases to how to scale across the enterprise.
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Andy Tay reacted on thisAndy Tay reacted on thisIncredibly honored to be recognized as one of the 2026 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business by the Asian American Business Development Center in partnership with America250. Also proud to join an inspiring group of leaders who are driving impact across their industries and communities and grateful to be part of this milestone celebration. This recognition is also a moment to express my gratitude to leaders who have supported me throughout my journey Julie Sweet, Manish Sharma, John Walsh, Andy Tay, Ajoy Menon, Ndidiamaka Oteh, Scott Alfieri, Muqsit Ashraf, Arun Khurana, Tristan Morel L'Horset, Stuart Henderson, Lan Guan, Dr. Manish Panjwani, Michael Lyman... and many more! 🔗 Learn more about the Outstanding 50 Awards: https://lnkd.in/gb3eApgz
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Andy Tay liked thisAndy Tay liked thisLast week, Equinix announced an additional $28 million investment to expand our BG2 facility in Bogotá, effectively doubling its capacity. Our customers are growing, and we want to grow with them. Businesses across the region are moving quickly to embrace cloud, AI, and data analytics. And while I was in Bogotá, I heard customers talk about how they’re thinking about more than adding capacity. They’re thinking about how the right digital infrastructure helps them scale, connect to new markets, and compete globally. Colombia has an increasingly vibrant technology ecosystem and plays an important role in connecting the Andean region to the broader digital economy. Just as inspiring was the opportunity to spend quality time with our teams on the ground. Their energy, expertise and connection to our customers reinforced what I’ve heard throughout my visit: there’s a lot to be excited about in Colombia. And our teams are ready to help build the foundation for what’s coming next. Thank you to my colleagues for an incredible visit: Francisco Basoalto Eduardo Zago de Carvalho Rodrigo Guerrero Daniel Nuñez Burgos Jynireth Suárez Chaparro Diego Blanco !
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Andy Tay liked thisAndy Tay liked thisCustomer demand for AI keeps accelerating. As organizations move from experimentation to production, they need infrastructure that can keep pace. That’s why we’re expanding our work with Jensen Huang and NVIDIA today. We're planning to deploy 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs across AWS global infrastructure in 2027 and 2028, and build AI factories for the U.S. Government with 100,000 GPUs on secure AWS infrastructure. This is a significant investment, and the reason is simple. Customers wants to deploy their production AI workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our work runs deeper than compute. It spans networking, open models, data processing, and robotics. Customers run more NVIDIA GPU-accelerated workloads on AWS than anywhere else because no one matches our reliability, security, and availability at this scale. Sixteen years in, and we're still finding new ways to innovate together. Full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eurSikFf
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Andy Tay liked thisAndy Tay liked thisAI is showing up in layoffs before it shows up in earnings. More than 100,000 announced job cuts in the first half of 2026 cited AI. Yet Goldman Sachs found that in Q2 earnings, 46% of S&P 500 companies talked about AI in the context of productivity or efficiency, 11% quantified the impact in a specific use case, and only 2% quantified an impact on earnings. The problem is that the decisions are moving faster than the evidence. Companies are already making workforce decisions based on the value they expect AI to create, while very few can yet show that value in the P&L. The spending data adds another dimension. Goldman cites the Ramp AI Index, where median AI spending per employee has gone from $5 a month at the start of the year to about $12 in July. At the top decile, it is already $650. So why is the earnings impact still at 2%? Our research at Accenture points to part of the answer. 86% of organizations plan to increase AI investment this year, but only 21% have redesigned end-to-end processes with AI at the core. National Bureau of Economic Research's survey of nearly 6,000 executives found that 89% reported no impact from AI on labor productivity over the last three years. For a long time we called this a pilot problem. It is a value-realization problem, and solving it requires reinvention. Organizations that bolt AI onto existing ways of working will struggle to move the P&L. The ones bold enough to reinvent the work, the workforce, and the workbench (the technology) around AI, then deploy at scale, are the ones who will turn productivity into earnings. The ones that hire and partner with AI engineering talent, industry and process expertise with solutions that focus on adding replicable value will be the future winners. The real test will be how long it takes for more than just 2% of the S&P 500 companies to start showing that AI impacted their earnings. Comment "data" below if you want the links to the sources. Muqsit Ashraf, Chris Roark, Lara Wozniak, Suzanne Randall, James Crowley, Ray Pressburger, Oliver Wright, Praveen Kishorepuria, Chris McManus
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Andy Tay liked thisAfter three and a halfish years at Accenture I am retiring next week. Thank you to Chris Wegmann, Chris Scott, and Andy Tay for the opportunity of a lifetime. Thanks to Johnny Cheng for the amazing support ramping up on accenturisms and being a lifeline through it all. To the entire Six Nines/Nextira team: you are the best of the best. It was an honor to help lead such a talented and driven group of people. I’m proud of all of you and know you will continue to shine and make a huge impact.
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Andy Tay liked thisAndy Tay liked thisI am proud to see Accenture recognized by Forbes as the most recommended management consulting firm, with 27 five-star ratings. Our investments in people, assets, data, and methods are all in service of helping our clients reinvent—by reimagining work, reshaping workforces, and redesigning their data architectures, applications, and infrastructure for a market in which applying AI intelligently, securely and responsibly shifts enterprise valuation multiples and redefines the competitiveness of business and operating models. That is what reinvention looks like: combining technology, talent, and industry and functional depth to create measurable advantage. Manish Sharma Muqsit Ashraf James Crowley Ajoy Menon Andy Tay Tracey Countryman Peter Frandina Karalee Close Irene Blecher Ndidiamaka Oteh Ami Palan Craig Richey Arundhati Chakraborty Harpreet Sidhu David Fitch Jason Dess Lan Guan Rajendra Prasad (RP) https://lnkd.in/gJx39pTzMeet The World’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2026Meet The World’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2026
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Andy Tay liked thisAndy Tay liked thisGreat to be onsite with Jeff Robinson from BlueScope earlier this morning, joined by SOTO's Head of Mechanical, Braeden Wilson. Opportunities like this are exactly why we invest heavily in strategic account management and maintaining close relationships with our customers. This engineering challenge landed less than 48 hours ago, yet our team was already on site, engaging with stakeholders and working to understand the problem firsthand. At SOTO, our customers don't come to us for the easy jobs. They engage us when the challenge is complex, time-critical, or when conventional solutions have fallen short. Our strength lies in combining deep technical expertise with agility, responsiveness, and a commitment to delivering outcomes in environments where others often struggle to execute. Thanks to Jeff and the BlueScope team for the opportunity and continued partnership. #EngineeringExcellence #AccountManagement #BlueScope #MechanicalEngineering #IndustrialEngineering #SOTOEngineering
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Freedom of the City of London
City of London, England, UK
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Duke of Edinburgh, Gold Award
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Technology Alliance (Board Member)
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A voice for Washington's innovation economy: The Technology Alliance is a statewide, non-profit organization of leaders from Washington’s technology-based businesses and research institutions united by our vision of a vibrant innovation economy that benefits all of our state's citizens. Through programs, events, data analysis, and policy activities, we advance excellence in education, research, and entrepreneurship to support the growth of our high-impact industries; the creation of high-wage…
A voice for Washington's innovation economy: The Technology Alliance is a statewide, non-profit organization of leaders from Washington’s technology-based businesses and research institutions united by our vision of a vibrant innovation economy that benefits all of our state's citizens. Through programs, events, data analysis, and policy activities, we advance excellence in education, research, and entrepreneurship to support the growth of our high-impact industries; the creation of high-wage jobs; and economic prosperity for our entire state.
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