Welcome to BDO's acceleration hub—a suite of standardized frameworks and accelerators designed to modernize your business through technology swiftly and efficiently, without compromising quality.
In an increasingly pressured economy, the burden of high costs to maintain outdated, inefficient technology often fails to meet evolving business needs, resulting in declining productivity and an inability to compete in the fast-paced digital transformation space.
At BDO, we understand this pressing challenge, which is why our core accelerators—Cloud Central, Modernization Central, Experience Central, and AI Central—enable you to expedite your initiatives to transition from on-premise systems to the cloud, modernize legacy systems, and leverage cutting-edge AI technologies.
Experience cost-effective, largely automated solutions that empower your organization to achieve its technological aspirations faster than ever before.
Select your accelerator
Cloud Central
BDO's Cloud Central services address the critical challenges businesses face in cloud adoption and management such as deploying increasingly complex cloud infrastructure and maintaining consistent onboarding processes. Limited metrics and reporting on enterprise cloud adoption, coupled with low adoption rates and increased costs with limited ROI, further complicate these initiatives. These issues often result in project delays that negatively impact business initiatives. Our Cloud Central provides a comprehensive collection of frameworks and accelerators, designed to simplify and expedite your organization’s cloud initiatives.
By leveraging Cloud Central, you can effectively eliminate the complexities and limitations of on-premise systems to ensure a seamless transition to the cloud, optimizing infrastructure, enhancing scalability, and improving overall operational efficiency.
Most organizations struggle with on-premise systems due to:
- Mounting lines of business
- Mragmented data
- Legacy systems
- Under performant AI
- Unsecured systems
- Non-compliant licensing
- Unsupported end-of-life systems
An optimal journey to the cloud involves:
- Streamlined onboarding
- Automation and self-service
- Embedded cloud security
- Governance framework
- Scaled migration
Modern cloud-based platforms offer:
- Single source of truth
- Impactful AI
- Secure systems
- Compliant licensing
- Supported platforms
- Modern apps and infrastructure
Cloud Central core services
Our six Cloud Central services are structured to supplement one another to achieve an expedited cloud transition.
Further reading
Envisioning large-scale cloud migrations for financial-services organizations
The process of deciding the best strategy for cloud migration must align with the business’s primary goals. Read our article on large-scale cloud migration for financial services organizations for key insights.
Executing a cloud migration strategy for banks: Addressing 3 key challenges
Banks can successfully execute a cloud migration strategy by addressing three key challenges. Learn about these challenges in our article on cloud migration within the financial services industry.
AI Central
As AI continues to be a pressing necessity, many businesses struggle to know where to begin. High rates of failure and low ROI are common challenges, often stemming from data quality issues and the pervasive mistrust in AI tools due to massive public and government scrutiny. Our AI Central addresses these issues with a holistic framework for AI adoption and usage designed to help organizations at all stages of AI maturity.
Leveraging Gartner’s AI maturity model, our offerings are strategically divided into two stages. This tailored approach ensures that whether your business is just beginning its AI journey or looking to scale advanced AI systems, you will receive the support and expertise needed to achieve your objectives.
Move fast
If your organization is in its early stages of AI interest and experimentation, the move fast stage enables you to quickly prototype and test AI solutions.
Go long
If your organization has advanced in its AI sophistication and maturity level, this stage will guide you through a strategic and broad implementation of AI technologies to drive sustainable, long-term growth.
Our AI Central approach
Our approach is business-driven yet technology-enabled, recognizing that not every issue is an AI issue. Our comprehensive framework is tailored to assist you in maximizing the benefits of AI by addressing crucial questions regarding your specific business requirements.
- Uncover AI-enabled competitive advantage.
- Identify/prioritize relevant AI use cases.
- Determine AI feasibility for each use case.
- Research AI usage by your company and in the market.
- Calculate estimated costs and licensing.
- Develop business case.
- Identify the cost/risk of not leveraging AI.
- Get buy-in to invest in AI.
- Understand the implications of your AI journey.
- Consider key areas including ethics, cybersecurity, people, processes, and legal.
- Define sequence and costs.
- Monitor and control AI performance.
- Get data ready for AI.
- Choose the right technology/vendor.
- Prepare operating model and people (EX/CX) for AI.
- Prepare processes and policies for AI.
Core services in AI Central
Move fast
- AI ideation workshop
Jumpstart your AI journey through AI use case(s) identification and value creation/business case creation. - AI pilot
Execute an AI pilot to deliver an AI use case to the business and demonstrate the value realized through AI.
Go long
- AI strategy and roadmap
Build a comprehensive plan on how AI will be leveraged to achieve your organization’s strategic and business outcomes. - AI implementation
Operationalize your AI use case by establishing the framework to deliver AI to your organization while connecting the AI use case to your operational processes
Business reimagined
To learn more about the path to successful GenAI adoption, from experimentation to a strategic framework for business growth, visit our GenAI roadmap.
Modernization Central
As your business evolves, your needs can often outpace existing system capabilities, limiting innovation and competitiveness due to reporting barriers and the inability to utilize AI effectively. Such legacy systems can also pose security risks and high costs of ownership and maintenance due to reduced vendor support.
Our Modernization Central is a comprehensive suite of frameworks and accelerators designed to tackle the complexities of application transformation. Our service enables your organization to modernize legacy systems, seamlessly integrate cloud-native features, and optimize your IT infrastructure. By leveraging Modernization Central, you can drive significant value from the cloud, enhance operational agility, and gain strategic flexibility.
Most organizations using legacy applications struggle with:
- Mounting lines of business
- Fragmented data
- Legacy systems
- Under performant AI
- Unsecured systems
- Non-compliant licensing
- Unsupported end-of-life systems
To modernize legacy apps, technology leaders want to:
- Better understand their systems
- Identify transformation complexity
- Extend system longevity
- Automate transformation
- Avoid the big bang approach
Modernization offers apps that are:
- Intelligent
- Agile
- Automated
- Performant
Core services in Modernization Central
Techtonic States: A report on the future of business
BDO leaders share the importance of investing in technology and predict four potential futures in 2026. Discover the future of business in the Techtonic States report.
Experience Central
At the heart of Experience Central is a unified digital platform that helps organizations create a thriving culture with engaged employees and inspiring leaders.
Built on Microsoft 365, Microsoft Viva Suite, and Microsoft 365 Copilot and PowerPlatform, Experience Central offers a modern, out-of-the-box cloud solution that centralizes the employee experience while reducing IT burden so organizations can improve communication, foster engagement, inspire confidence and nurture the sense of community alongside driving efficiencies.
With a smooth integration process, our Experience Central makes valuable information readily accessible and improves overall workflow efficiency by seamlessly connecting essential applications like Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Workday, Salesforce, and SAP to create a unified and searchable presentation layer of your backend data.
This includes practical applications such as onboarding processes, project management tools, chatbots, and health and safety reporting.
Key capabilities offered by Experience Central
5 tips for a successful Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout
Explore key insights from our own experience in leveraging Microsoft 365 Copilot and how it helped us boost productivity and transform workflow efficiency.
How BDO can help
BDO’s acceleration centrals are designed to simplify and expedite your cloud and AI adoption, as well as your experience and modernization initiatives. We enable the deployment of unique applications for larger organizations with complex technology needs and infrastructure, often reducing timelines for our clients from years to weeks. Our end-to-end digital services support you at any stage of your digital transformation journey, leveraging our experience across major platforms, especially within Microsoft's solution areas.