Under the offer, SAP customers can move their core ERP (enterprise resource planning) software as well as the Business Warehouse data-warehousing platform to a private cloud, ostensibly gaining the usual benefits that cloud deployments provide, such as system resource elasticity.

Accenture is using the FlexPod architecture, which combines NetApp storage with Cisco's Unified Computing System, with VMware virtualization and Red Hat's Linux and Network Satellite server management software also in the mix, said Eric Renouard, global technology lead for Accenture's SAP practice.

Accenture has come up with three specific configurations aimed at medium, large or "extra-large" deployments, he said. "If [the customer] fits within the sizings, it's totally turnkey. Our objective in building this is to make it as transparent as possible to the user." The configurations can be tweaked as needed, however, he said.

Pricing "varies by geography, but we are not talking tens of millions," Renouard said.

Customers have the option of a fixed-price deployment but "that dictates you have to pretty much fit square in line with what we've designed," he said.