Best people
Ensuring we have the quantity and quality of skills and resources to meet client commitments and fast-emerging developments in SAP technology is our most important core investment. Given the worldwide demand for SAP-skilled personnel, this can be challenging. Yet, over the last five years in this dynamic space, we have been successful in recruiting and training our people—adding more and more practitioners, and training them to master new SAP skills. We have 26,500 SAP professionals globally. Our people are known for the rigor and honesty with which they approach client challenges—especially in guiding clients through large, complex programs where the stakes for success are very high. Our SAP professionals are motivated to continually expand their capabilities and SAP has recognized this by awarding twice as many SAP Diamond Circle Awards to our people than any other partner. While the work of recruiting, training and retaining SAP practitioners is a global endeavor, we finely tailor our approach to very different local market conditions and specific business needs for various SAP-skilled people. Each geographic region leverages the general resources and guidelines of our global program and customizes that program based on local needs. Read the personal experiences of some of our SAP practitioners on our recruitment site. Best tools and assets
We have developed the tools, methodologies, global delivery organizations and other assets to support cost-effective, high-quality execution. This industrialized delivery approach spans all aspects of the SAP program lifecycle and benefits clients through around-the-clock development timescales, repeatable, high-quality business practices and cost-effectiveness. Our practitioners operate within a consistent framework, sharing the same methods, language and culture that drive efficiency. The Accenture Delivery Suite for SAP provides a standard approach to delivering a reliable and consistent SAP implementation in any industry and for any business function. The packaged knowledge—in the form of job aids, tools and templates—that we bring to a project is based on Accenture’s collective experience across the company, as well as specifically delivering more than 1,500 SAP projects a year. We blend resources working alongside clients at engagement sites and those housed in our Global Delivery Center Network to appropriately balance industrialization with customization to meet client needs. Regardless of the final approach we use, Accenture is rigorous and transparent in communicating, at the front-end of the project, the price/value tradeoffs. . |