Because every business today is a data-driven business, with the speed of data increasing at a blinding rate, enterprises are seeking guidance from consulting and management firms to help figure out their next steps. To find out how these management companies are handling the current business landscape, Accenture Plc revealed its consulting strategy to theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio.

“Expectations on companies today are growing exponentially,” said Albrecht Powell (pictured), managing director of digital data and analytics at Accenture Analytics. Powell explained that when his team meets with a client, they’re not selling a product; rather, they’re trying to help clients find out what they can improve within their company to drive business value.

Powell joined John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), co-hosts of theCUBE during Informatica World 2017 in San Francisco, California. They discussed what clients are looking for from Accenture and what tools are available to get them up and running quickly. (* Disclosure below.)

Helping change how businesses think

Many times, organizations come to Accenture and think they understand what their primary business challenge is, but they actually don’t have a clear view of what that challenge is, Powell stated. In order to help them understand the true issues that they are facing, they’re put into Design-Thinking Sessions. This is where clients are taught to re-image their products and services, learning how best to map their businesses to an age of digital information.

Additionally, Accenture conducts prototyping, where they can go through and build, in a matter of weeks, a real-time model that a client can run with. The Accenture Insights Platform is a capability it has negotiated with many partners, such as Informatica Corp., to have their tools and software in a fully-functional, cloud-based environment, that is ready for clients to test-drive, Powell explained.

Again, in a matter of a couple of weeks, “We can stand something up, so [clients] can see it, they can touch it; it’s no longer big capital investments to go start these types of projects,” Powell concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Informatica World 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Informatica World. Neither Informatica Corp. nor other sponsors have editorial influence on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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