IT industry is moving to industrialisation of digital services: Accenture CEO

Global IT services major Accenture said it has started seeing industrialisation of digital technology services such as cloud, analytics, cyber security. The company, which claims to have 60 per cent of the new deal bookings in digital cloud and cyber security, has started seeing a shift from the proof of concept (PoC) stage for digital technology-based services. Accenture said its new order book in the first quarter of 2018 (ended on November 30) stood at $10 billion. "Indeed, we see a shift of the budget to the digital technology at large...We are moving from what i would qualify in last couple of years proliferation of the PoC and now we are moving to the industrialisation of the deployment of the digital capabilities and of course it is creating strong demands," Pierre Nanterme, Chairman and chief executive officer, Accenture, told analysts in a call. IT services players across the global such as Accenture, IBM, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro witness an increasing demand for service delivery using technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning.