Nextira will join the Accenture AWS Business
Group with a focus on media and entertainment industry clients
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Nextira, an Amazon Web
Services (AWS) Premier Partner that uses AWS to deliver
cloud-native innovation, predictive analytics and immersive
experiences for their clients. These services and solutions will
bolster Accenture Cloud First’s robust set of engineering
capabilities and help clients take advantage of a full continuum of
cloud capabilities and tools. Terms of the transaction were not
disclosed.
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Accenture has acquired Nextira, an Amazon
Web Services (AWS) Premier Partner that uses AWS to deliver
cloud-native innovation, predictive analytics and immersive
experiences for their clients. (Photo: Business Wire)
Founded in 2008 and based in Austin, Texas, Nextira’s nearly 70
employees will join the Accenture AWS Business Group, a team of
more than 20,000 certified professionals dedicated to accelerating
value on AWS to maximize enterprise-wide transformation at speed
and scale.
Nextira builds cloud-based solutions and services with
cutting-edge engineering skills, artificial intelligence (AI),
machine learning, and data analytics that enable clients to design,
build, launch and optimize high-performance computing environments.
In addition, Nextira’s proprietary Studio in the Cloud solution on
AWS provides clients with a virtual environment to easily develop
and render 3D objects using the latest rendering platforms.
For many organizations, cloud has become the new operating
system, supporting all functions that are necessary in order to
operate, innovate and thrive. Nextira’s platform engineering
expertise and AI and machine learning services will enable AI
capabilities to be directly embedded into the rapidly growing
number of applications and services built that are on AWS.
“Nextira brings in proven expertise in engineering and
architecting the cloud solutions that form a digital core for
continuous innovation,” said Karthik Narain, global lead for
Accenture Cloud First. “We will combine Nextira’s AI, machine
learning, and data and analytics abilities with Accenture’s
approach to using modern data platforms on cloud. This will deliver
the actionable insights and predictive outcomes that our clients
need to create new applications and services, deliver innovative
customer and employee experiences and fuel their next wave of
product and market growth.”
“Our strategy has always been to use cutting-edge technologies
in order to create better futures for our clients,” said Jason
Cutrer, founder and CEO, Nextira. “Joining Accenture will connect
our deep experience in platform and software engineering with
Accenture’s breadth of knowledge across cloud technologies,
creating new opportunities for organizations to unlock the
potential of emerging technologies to drive business value.”
The Accenture AWS Business Group is part of Accenture Cloud
First, Accenture’s industry-leading business group focused on
redefining how organizations operate and create value by using
cloud, data, and artificial intelligence for total enterprise
reinvention. Accenture Cloud First spans more than 130,000 cloud
professionals from across Accenture with more than 124,000 cloud
certifications.
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