Close
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
Read Down
Sign in
Close
Welcome!Log into your account
Forgot your password?
Read Down
Password recovery
Recover your password
Close
Search
Menu
Search
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
More
    Home Cloud
    • Cloud

    Ernst & Young, Microsoft Team Up to Give Businesses Cloud Boost

    By
    Pedro Hernandez
    -
    April 23, 2015
    Share
    Facebook
    Twitter
    Linkedin
      Microsoft

      Ernst & Young (EY) and Microsoft formed a partnership to manage the transition to cloud-enabled work styles and business processes for the professional services firm’s clients, the companies announced.

      Dubbed the EY-Microsoft Digital Alliance, the project’s aim is to help enterprises adopt new innovations in mobile, data analytics and cloud computing to improve business results while building on their current IT setups. “By using the combined forces of EY and Microsoft, companies can accelerate into a highly digitally enabled enterprise and optimize the investments in software they have made over the years,” said Mark Weinberger, CEO of EY Global, in an April 22 statement. “This is all about helping companies improve their return on investment as they move to a more analytical, automated, cloud-based environment.”

      The alliance rests on four distinct pillars, including EY’s and Microsoft’s Trusted Cloud Services (TCS) that enable businesses to make the transition to the cloud securely and in compliance with regulations governing data privacy.

      TCS employs big data processing capabilities to build an inventory of unstructured files and classify them to enhance data governance initiatives by identifying critical business data, and if desired, purge data that has lost its business value. Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner said in a statement that the combination of “EY’s advisory services with Microsoft’s trusted cloud capabilities will help customers turn data insights into action, deliver measurable business outcomes and accelerate their transformations.”

      In addition, the companies said EY will collaborate closely with Microsoft Consulting Services to deploy enterprise products on Azure, Microsoft’s globe-spanning cloud computing platform. EY and Microsoft also plan to use Azure applications to derive “near-term value” from a customer’s existing software and data.

      The Program Performance Center (PCC) combines EY’s expertise in business program management with Microsoft Azure, SQL Server, Project Server and Power BI’s predictive analytics capabilities to hone their business operations. 3D Spend Analytics keeps an eye on the company checkbook by enlisting Microsoft’s cloud and big data technologies, including SQL Server, SharePoint, HPC, HD Insight Hadoop, Azure and Azure Machine Learning. The companies said the service will “help companies assess spend composition and integrity, identify risks and opportunities, predict patterns and plan for optimized future spend.”

      Arguing that new technology isn’t transformative if employees don’t use it to its potential, the companies unveiled the final offering, Digital Program Activation. EY will evaluate an organization, including policies that may inhibit productivity and collaboration, to develop a custom Future of Work Playbook that businesses can use to set their digital workplace strategies with an eye toward improving ROI.

      More services are in the works, according to Carmine Di Sibio, EY global managing partner for Client Service. “As this relationship accelerates, EY and Microsoft expect to develop and launch a series of new business-driven digital offerings to help customers achieve their potential in a better working world,” he said in a statement.

      Avatar
      Pedro Hernandez
      Pedro Hernandez is a contributor to eWEEK and the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals. Previously, he served as a managing editor for the Internet.com network of IT-related websites and as the Green IT curator for GigaOM Pro.

      MOST POPULAR ARTICLES

      Android

      Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro: Durability for Tough...

      Chris Preimesberger - December 5, 2020 0
      Have you ever dropped your phone, winced and felt the pain as it hit the sidewalk? Either the screen splintered like a windshield being...
      Read more
      Cloud

      Why Data Security Will Face Even Harsher...

      Chris Preimesberger - December 1, 2020 0
      Who would know more about details of the hacking process than an actual former career hacker? And who wants to understand all they can...
      Read more
      Cybersecurity

      How Veritas Is Shining a Light Into...

      eWEEK EDITORS - September 25, 2020 0
      Protecting data has always been one of the most important tasks in all of IT, yet as more companies become data companies at the...
      Read more
      Big Data and Analytics

      How NVIDIA A100 Station Brings Data Center...

      Zeus Kerravala - November 18, 2020 0
      There’s little debate that graphics processor unit manufacturer NVIDIA is the de facto standard when it comes to providing silicon to power machine learning...
      Read more
      Apple

      Why iPhone 12 Pro Makes Sense for...

      Wayne Rash - November 26, 2020 0
      If you’ve been watching the Apple commercials for the past three weeks, you already know what the company thinks will happen if you buy...
      Read more
      eWeek


      Contact Us | About | Sitemap

      Facebook
      Linkedin
      RSS
      Twitter
      Youtube

      Property of TechnologyAdvice.
      Terms of Service | Privacy Notice | Advertise | California - Do Not Sell My Information

      © 2021 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

      Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.

      ×