Accenture Becomes First Global Systems Integrator Joining Chef in Empowering Enterprises to Successfully Adopt DevOps Practices
SEATTLE and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – April 1, 2015 – At ChefConf 2015, Chef, a leader in automation for DevOps, today announced a Partner Certification Program, which empowers Chef’s growing ecosystem of technology and services providers with Chef engineering and go-to-market resources. The program also includes extensive training to certify Chef partners for supporting Chef deployments within their customer bases.
Chef’s Partner Certification Program helps technology and services providers empower their customers to adopt DevOps practices on the journey to high-velocity software development. According to research from Chef director and leading DevOps investigator Nicole Forsgren, Ph.D., high-performing DevOps organizations are twice as likely than their competitors to exceed market share, profitability and productivity goals, and achieve 50 percent market cap growth within a three-year time period. Today, a diverse group of technology and services providers are joining with Chef to drive similar business results for their own customers.
Accenture, the global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, has become the first global systems integrator to sign on to Chef’s Partner Certification Program. Accenture plans to expand its base of Chef practitioners by training more than 100 people in Chef development methodologies and leading practices. In addition, the two companies will work together to release a number of enterprise Chef cookbooks focusing on enterprise applications as part of the Accenture DevOps offering. This will build on a three-year relationship in which the Chef framework has been used with Accenture clients to automate both infrastructure and application provisioning, while supporting the Accenture Cloud Platform’s Cloud Management Services.
“Our enterprise clients are increasingly turning to us to help accelerate their high-velocity, software-driven businesses by adopting new application strategies enabled by engineering innovations like DevOps,” said Adam Burden, global managing director for Advanced Technology & Architecture at Accenture. “Liquid applications, for example, provide companies with a new way to build software that is faster, more flexible and features reusable components, modular architectures and continuous delivery. Chef is already helping us realize this potential on a number of our client engagements, and we see them playing an important role in the DevOps ecosystem.”
“Faster, high-quality software delivery requires automation and cloud technologies in combination with DevOps practices,” said Ken Cheney, vice president of business development at Chef. “Our partner program brings together a unique set of long-standing technology leaders and new IT innovators in providing both the tools and skills needed to achieve high-velocity software development and IT operations.”
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