PA Consulting Announces Multi-Year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS

PA Consulting (PA), the global innovation and transformation consultancy that’s bringing ingenuity to life, today announced that it has signed a strategic agreement (SA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). The new deal will help [joint or PA] customers accelerate their digital transformation.

The new multi-year agreement is designed to help advance the adoption of cloud solutions for PA’s clients through the development of innovative new services and products. Under the agreement, PA will work with  AWS to  build market-specific solutions for a number of key industries. These include providing improved cyber security for financial services companies, delivering more advanced health care solutions for local authorities, stronger real time analytics on shopping behaviours for bricks and mortar retailers and new asset-based monitoring to enable energy and utilities businesses to better manage their resources.

Vittorio Sanvito, Director of Partner Development in EMEA at AWS said:
We are delighted to strengthen our collaboration with PA Consulting, which encapsulates a robust services platform with experienced cloud experts who can help companies with their migration journey to AWS. PA Consulting, has deep industry expertise and  together we can help customers accelerate business outcomes by leveraging the breadth of AWS services.

“This agreement is recognition that many organisations recognise the benefits of implementing  cloud services and the next generation of digital growth will come from partners that can combine these services with deep sector knowledge. I’m excited to see how, together with PA Consulting, we can produce industry solutions to meet the specific needs of our joint customers.”

Rahul Gupta, Partner and Cloud Executive Sponsor at PA Consulting said:
“Our strategic agreement with AWS fundamentally accelerates our cloud services business and solutions.  We are committed to helping our clients find digital, cloud based solutions to drive growth, and this SA cements that goal. We are excited to work with AWS as we build out new cloud- based solutions for clients across a number of key industries.”

This agreement follows PA’s recent presentation at AWS’ London Summit, giving the audiences a taste of the solutions, with early customer testimony of how they are using the solutions to meet their business challenges.