Cloud has been a hot word in IT for the past few years. If you’re a legacy company looking to stay relevant, add a cloud service. If you’re a startup, boast about your bleeding-edge, cloud-native infrastructure. If you’re an enterprise, surely you’re next profitable move involves a cloud service. But is it time to take a hard look at the real value of all your clouds and measure it against the hype?

Jason Wojahn, managing director at Accenture, Inc., said his company works with clients who are operating as many as 35 different clouds without a clear idea of whether they are all necessary. He told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, the smarter companies are now looking to “intercloud” or “consolidate and make sure they’re getting the value of cost of their investments.”

Even more importantly, he said, they want to “make sure they don’t have a lot of overlaps. Many of the tools do, and if you have 35 clouds, you probably have 35 overlaps.”

ServiceNow in assorted shapes and sizes

Accenture is a company that both utilizes ServiceNow in its own operations and guides customers on their own ServiceNow journeys. Wojahn said that his company is now honing in on industry-specific versions of ServiceNow — for retail, higher ed, financial services, etc.

“It allows us to take and distill that intellectual property that we’ve been building in the ServiceNow platform since 2009 and aggregate that by industry,” he said.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of ServiceNow Knowledge16.

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