Accenture Business Intelligence Capabilities for Oracle

On what basis does your business compete?

To sustain competitive advantage, high-performance businesses need to find new and innovative ways to differentiate themselves. Business intelligence provides a unique and proven way to do that. Teaming with Oracle, Accenture is well positioned to help businesses and governments to leverage information technology as a strategic asset and drive high performance.

As an Accenture survey [1] of more than 160 CIOs in North America and Europe in March 2007 revealed, more than 57 percent of CIOs position business intelligence as a core component for competitive differentiation over the next three years. What is more, respondents from both North America and Europe are expecting to shift data out of organizational silos to embrace enterprise-wide analytics—76.5 percent are targeting enterprise-wide integration within three years.

Read more about Accenture’s point of view on Achieving High Performance with Analytics and how Oracle’s Business Intelligence (BI) suite can be a valuable enabler. [PDF, 150KB]

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[1] Source: “Cultivating High Performance through Information Management,” Accenture CIO Survey, 2007

Accenture offers an unrivalled combination of practical vision, skilled people and delivery excellence to help companies achieve clear business outcomes with their business intelligence initiatives and drive high performance. While Oracle’s pre-built products speed up the process of integration, successful business intelligence capabilities rely on unraveling the complexities around an organization’s unique business issues, its differentiators and change management demands. Using an industrialized approach—which includes a global network of delivery centers and proven methods and tools—Accenture professionals also draw on their deep industry, functional and technology skills to scope and deliver reliable, high-quality, cost-effective solutions to achieve business results faster and position organizations for high performance.

Accenture’s experience delivering Oracle BI solutions to its clients gives it the ability to:

• Quickly deliver and then expand business intelligence capabilities.
• Define the right leadership support and business intelligence governance model, from the CEO down.
• Align business intelligence strategy with business goals.
• Build all business intelligence components with the enterprise in mind.

In addition to 2,200 Oracle professionals, Accenture has a unique set of frameworks and methodologies that help clients plan and deliver Oracle BI solutions:

• The Accenture Business Intelligence Diagnostic.
• Accenture Delivery Methods for Business Intelligence.
• Oracle BI Design Templates and Sample Designs.
• Reference implementation plans.
• The Accenture Global Delivery Network.
• Two unique Accenture Innovation Centers for Oracle, located at Oracle’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, and Reading, United Kingdom.

In an era of growing competition, a skilled workforce can help differentiate an organization from its competitors. Read how Accenture Workforce Analytics, [PDF, 151KB] an out-of-the-box Oracle solution, provides companies with the tools and metrics they need to manage their workforce and align it with their business needs.

The New York City non-emergency 311 call center [PDF, 198KB] is one of the most highly-visible examples of business intelligence in action on a grand scale. Read about what Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls “the mother of all accountability tools”—an Accenture solution powered by Oracle BI that improves the lives of citizens—from finding assistance for an elderly relative to reporting a pothole.

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Accenture’s ongoing research and proven experience in helping clients on the path to high performance has led to the development of the Accenture BI Maturity Model, which helps organizations progress through five stages of analytical maturity. Accenture has a distinct view on how specific business intelligence technologies will continue to use data to understand, analyze and guide business performance.

Accenture applies that understanding as it helps organizations design and implement business intelligence capabilities that maximize the effectiveness of Oracle products. Accenture has developed a set of business intelligence offerings for Oracle that include:

• A business intelligence diagnostic to help clients assess their business needs and current capabilities to determine an approach for implementing, or extending, the use of business intelligence across their organizations.
• Customer analytics to enable clients to become more customer-centric by understanding customer preference and intention, improving customer experiences and realigning business performance metrics, scorecards and management to better focus on the customer.
• Workforce analytics to provide companies with the tools and metrics needed to manage their workforce as a competitive asset by monitoring, understanding and deploying talent more effectively, and keep the workforce in line with the growing demands of the business.
• Accenture Enterprise Performance Management that links clients’ financial planning and budgeting functions with the actual operations of the business to better manage the performance of the enterprise as a whole.