Charting the Future: Accenture and the IBM Z Continuity Challenge

IBM Z

The mainframe manager at Accenture needed to establish a continuity plan for his different teams in the IBM Z systems technical area and implement an adequate generational replacement that would ensure the continuity of the service they provide.

Once the market was explored, they verified the absence of candidates who met the level of technical knowledge they needed.

With this challenge, he decided to contact us.

We did?

Given our extensive experience in business IBM environments, such as IBM Z and IBM i, and being aware of the market situation in this technical area, we decided to bet on the training of new professionals and thus be able to offer Accenture the best young talent available in the market. For this reason, and together with IBM, we created the program PSS Talent Campus. This program is based on taking our client's requirements to present a plan in which we commit to attract, technically train and bring the best talent to the labor market. 

 

After a meeting between our team and the Accenture team, we did an exhaustive requirements gathering, focusing, above all, on their pain points and to provide them with a solution. personalized and adapted to your problem: attract candidates without prior experience, train them as junior systems technicians on IBM Z and incorporate them into your teams senior of the different areas so that they grow as professionals within their project, thus becoming essential pieces that ensure the continuity of service in their teams.

 

Thus, working together, we managed to find the right profiles in a short time, train the team in IBM Z and successfully incorporate them into Accenture.

timeline of project actions

A view to the future

IBM Z machines Not only do they provide a solid foundation for enterprise computing, they are also paving the way for innovation and security in the digital age. Thus, the program PSS Talent Campus It turns out to be an excellent vehicle to provide continuity and ensure the generational change of the technical teams of companies in the area of mainframe.

 

What makes IBM Z machines never go out of style is their constant commitment to innovation and, therefore, their commitment to the future. Thus, there is a growing demand for technical resources specialized in this technology, but there is an absence of them in the market. For them, our main objective when faced with Accenture's request was to find the best solution adapted to their needs.

 

With the program PSS Talent Campus, we ensure the search for the best profiles junior , which will have specific studies, ensuring the continuity of their services with the incorporation of these profiles to the senior teams, thus giving viability to Accenture's vision of the future in its projects.

A win-to-win

This first edition of PSS Talent Campus, Both Accenture and the selected candidates experience a mutual victory: This project fostered a unique synergy that benefits both parties, elevating everyone towards shared success:

  1. Highly trained young professionals specifically trained to meet their technical needs joined the Accenture team. In this case, they recruited and trained 12 graduates in technical science careers with advanced skills in English which were later integrated as junior in teams senior to continue training. Today, these professionals form an integral part of the client's technical teams, successfully fulfilling Accenture's initial objective.
  2. In a sector as competitive as technology, it is difficult to have a first job opportunity. Our commitment to talent and a personalized plan For this program, we had to select candidates with no experience but a real desire to take on the world. Thus, we get the best candidates on the market, enhancing the commitment between technology, innovation and business and integrating them into solid projects with future projection.

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