SAP solutions for business value and high performance

“Based on the unique needs of each client, we apply proven approaches, tools and insights.”

Realizing value from SAP investmentsIn our drive to help businesses and public sector organizations accelerate business growth and deliver high performance over the long term, we work with them to realize maximum value from their SAP systems.

Based on the unique needs of each client, we apply proven approaches, tools and insights that help them to combine a strong SAP backbone with the agility to embrace new approaches and technologies before the competition.

With over 38,000 SAP practitioners and a three-decade strategic relationship with SAP, we deliver unmatched expertise across a full range of industry-specific SAP solutions. Spanning multiple lines of business and emerging technology areas such as analytics, HANA and mobility, all of our solutions are designed to leverage as much value as possible at every stage of the SAP journey.

From implementation and extension, through upgrade and maintenance, to application and infrastructure outsourcing, Accenture can help you get more out of your SAP investments and accelerate business results by:

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Relentlessly driving toward business value and improved business outcomes.

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Delivering the insights you need to make informed decisions about technology investments.

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Providing the best people, tools and assets, delivery and breadth of services.

OneDriving toward business valueAccenture designs and manages programs that are tightly aligned with client objectives and target optimal value

We understand you’re under pressure to deliver increased productivity and efficiency, faster time-to-market and a flexible on-demand operating model — all while improving return on technology investment. So we always start by pinpointing your business goals and value drivers, helping you gauge the size of possible SAP-based business opportunities and savings, as well as the level of effort needed to realize them.

We are equipped to deliver SAP-related skills and assets anywhere along the spectrum of client need, from taking the right point actions for resolving urgent business challenges to helping you orchestrate sweeping strategic change.

Whether we’re implementing new solutions, or extending and maintaining existing ones, we focus relentlessly on driving you toward business value and improved business outcomes.

Knowing the product inside out is another essential part of realizing the full value of your SAP solution. Having invested over 30 years in getting to know the SAP product line, we combine a thorough understanding of SAP applications with deep industry knowledge and functional insights and experience, drawn from client engagements in all industries and regions of the world.

So whatever your stage on the SAP journey — implementation, extension, upgrade, maintenance, or revisiting to identify new business value — we can help you assess the business case for change, by comparing the required investment against the resulting business value.

“Knowing the product inside out is another essential part of realizing the full value of your SAP solution.”

“While guiding you along the optimal route to your goals, we speed your progress by demonstrating ‘the art of the possible’.”

TwoDelivering the insights you need We provide the knowledge and experience to help you make better-informed decisions about technology investments

Every dollar you invest in your enterprise systems needs to generate a positive and demonstrable return. To help you maximize this payback, we act as your trusted advocate, applying our SAP product knowledge and industry understanding to help you to identify and harness the fullest possible business benefits from your enterprise systems spend.

Given the changes under way both in SAP’s portfolio and the broader marketplace, our analysis and insights represent an invaluable resource for understanding and making strategic choices. To guide you in reaching the right decisions, we conduct a rigorous research program that constantly examines the technologies and trends

that will affect our clients in the next three to five years. This research provides us with a technology-neutral roadmap to help you navigate through the plethora of business and technical options open to you.

While guiding you along the optimal route to your goals, we also speed your progress by demonstrating the “art of the possible”, and translating technology innovations into proven business capabilities. Today, in our global network of innovation centers for SAP — part of our Global Delivery Network — Accenture and SAP specialists are collaborating to build the next generation of advanced analytics, HANA, mobility and cloud solutions integrated with SAP core technologies.

Our commitment to innovation is matched by our scale and depth of resources. Across the world, we have more than 259,000 people working every day to help our clients solve their business challenges and push back the boundaries of technology — creating a wealth of experience that we garner and apply to add incremental value to every project. To enhance this value still further, we build scenarios that enable you to see and experience the potential of new technologies in your own business context before you invest.

ThreeThe best people and tools for the job We invest continually to keep our team, assets, relationships, delivery capability and service portfolio at their peak — and ahead of the rest

We know that your business is unique — as are its needs and goals. But whatever your requirements may be, we can offer precisely the right functional, industry, language and cultural skills to meet them. We can do this because we have the world’s largest team of SAP practitioners collaborating at all stages of the SAP lifecycle. We draw on this unrivalled fund of skills to build a team specifically tailored to your requirements, blending onshore and offshore resources to meet your language, cultural and time-zone preferences, while also ensuring cost-effective delivery at pace.

The quality of our delivery is sustained and enhanced by our consistent training, delivery methodologies and assets — including our reusable technical

library, automation tools, and assets such as Accenture Advanced Enterprise Solutions. Together, these assets ensure that we deliver consistently against your objectives, whether these involve large, complex implementations or meeting specific business challenges.

Our focus does not end with developing the right solution for you. We go on to identify the optimal way to run it, through flexible and cost-competitive application and infrastructure outsourcing services designed to reduce your total cost of ownership while increasing value realization. Throughout, quality and consistency are maintained through assets such as Accenture Insight for Enterprise Systems for SAP application outsourcing and knowledge transfer.

With every SAP solution we deliver, our close collaborative alliance with SAP drives value for our clients. Our relationship with SAP goes back three decades, founded on deep CEO commitment on both sides as well as continual strategic collaboration in functional and industry areas. We’re often SAP’s partner of choice on pioneering projects, offering early access to the latest technologies and trends. Industry analysts recognize this deep, durable relationship as a differentiator for us. And, as our client, you get the benefit — gaining the combined insight and know-how of two global industry leaders.

“We’re often SAP’s partner of choice on pioneering projects, offering early access to the latest technologies and trends.”

“Our multi-disciplinary, integrated teams unite industry, process and technology expertise with business acumen.”

Helping to create high-performance SAP organizationsFrom mobility and cloud to analytics and HANA, changes in the technology landscape are creating enormous opportunities in ERP management. The challenge for organizations is to embrace these innovations while maintaining solid ERP foundations that are strong, aligned and primed to deliver future business value. Accenture’s proven approaches, tools and insights are helping organizations worldwide to address this challenge, enabling them to combine a strong SAP backbone with the agility needed to stay ahead of the competition.

As SAP’s largest services partner, we have unrivalled breadth and depth of SAP skills. Our multi-disciplinary, integrated teams unite industry, process and technology expertise with business acumen. And we continuously invest in proprietary industrialized and proven tools, methodologies and innovation that ensure speed of delivery, high-quality results, and lower costs. Our services span the full spectrum of clients’ SAP needs, from helping them to discover whether the full potential of their SAP investments is being realized through data management, analytics and application outsourcing, to business process transformation, technology optimization and value realization.

To learn more about how Accenture is helping organizations use SAP to become high-performance businesses and governments, and how we might help you, contact Accenture at www.accenture.com/sap

About Accenture Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 259,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2012. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

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