SAP® solutions to build the high velocity enterprise

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The digital world is creating challenges and opportunities for organizations like never before. New, nimble competitors. New platforms and ecosystems. Hyper-connectivity. Customers who want faster, more consistent and more personalized product and service experiences, cross channels and devices. The pressure is on to be faster, smarter, more agile and more responsive—to become a high velocity enterprise.

The rewards for forward-thinking organizations ready to rise to this challenge are rich. Organizations that master the disruption can massively reduce costs, accomplish in minutes what used to take days, get to market faster, achieve stellar customer satisfaction, and keep competitors at bay.

ERP is the optimal bedrock on which to build this high velocity enterprise. The data that enterprise systems such as SAP collect, store, protect and process is the lifeblood of the organization and the raw material for enhanced business insight, performance, innovation, agility and speed. To create the high velocity enterprise, we help organizations to re-channel this data, and to position their enterprise systems at the hub of a powerful, interconnected and interactive ecosystem of internal systems, external components and platforms, customers, partners and things.

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Delivering valueTo succeed in a digital world, every organization needs to find its own path, understanding and developing the capabilities that will support its journey to become a high velocity enterprise.

No two high velocity enterprises look the same. The form they take is a function of the market forces in their industry and the geographies in which they do business, along with the influence of their unique culture and heritage.

We understand that each business’s needs are unique, and this informs our approach to helping every business achieve the value they require.

With that vision clearly articulated, we are then able to pinpoint the optimal combinations of technology components that will be required to move forward at pace. To do this, we bring the full power of Accenture to bear, drawing on the deep industry expertise and unmatched strategy, digital, technology and operations know-how of our ‘living laboratory’ of more than 373,000 people, working with clients every day to help them tackle the challenges of their industry. Our global team has the insight and skills required in key areas such as finance transformation, sales and customer services, sourcing and procurement, supply chain, talent and HR, and SAP® technology.

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Setting the vision The journey to become a high velocity enterprise starts with a unique vision, tailored to individual strengths, capabilities, objectives, requirements and existing architectures.

Our industry-specific digital roadmaps provide a framework for developing that individual vision. The framework takes account of industry trends, challenges and market forces as well as opportunities presented by digital technologies.

We have identified the technology strategies and architectures that help every business to realize and enable its next-generation organization. We break down the digital themes that have the most impact for every industry, and break these down further into the specific initiatives and capabilities that a business will need to have in place to meet the specific risks and capture the opportunities that digital creates for their business and industry context.

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The insight-driven journey Access to innovation is essential too. Accordingly, we have 17 Accenture Innovation Centers for SAP around the world. These offer clients access to the latest SAP innovations and thought leadership about how these can be applied to solve specific industry challenges. In addition, the Accenture and SAP Business Solutions Group is a unique joint team dedicated to developing functional and industry-specific, end-to-end solutions based on SAP S/4HANA™, mobility and cloud.

We offer distinct points of view that encompass every aspect of how technology is creating new possibilities for businesses to achieve new levels of performance. We are acknowledged leaders in helping clients transform across every functional domain, from finance to HR, and from procurement to sales and customer services. Our unrivalled knowledge of SAP solutions enables us to help clients achieve their business goals with the best SAP technology for their specific needs and context, and we are also able to advise on the optimal way to drive value from combinations of SAP and other platforms and components.

Accenture’s relationship with SAP extends back over four decades. That depth and breadth of experience and insight enables us to make sure that our clients drive the maximum value from their SAP investments at the core of their business, providing a platform for integrating new digital technologies that will deliver the flexibility, speed, scalability and responsiveness that are vital to compete in a digital world.

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The optimal approach for a high velocity world We work with clients wherever they are in the world, whenever they need us. As a truly global business, we serve clients with teams tailored to each client, blending onsite, local, regional and global services to meet language, cultural and time-zone preferences, servicing our clients 24/7 and ensuring rapid, cost-effective delivery.

Our intelligent tools and methodologies help us accelerate clients’ progress toward becoming a high velocity enterprise. As the market moves toward consuming everything as a service, we can deliver solutions as plug-in, scalable, consumption-based business services that integrate business processes, applications, platforms, cloud, security and infrastructure, helping our clients to gain the greater agility and speed at scale that the cloud makes possible.

Our comprehensive approach enables clients to take advantage of unprecedented flexibility, innovation and the ability to transform business services and enable more intelligent, agile and robust operations. All of this is backed with the largest global collection of SAP expertise of any provider, anywhere in the world.

As SAP’s largest services partner, with 46,000 SAP professionals, we have unrivalled strength-in-depth. 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.

About AccentureAccenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

To learn more about how Accenture is helping organizations use SAP on their journey to becoming high velocity enterprises, and how we can help, contact Accenture at www.accenture.com/sap.

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