Analytics: Services Overview

Every organization, regardless of its current capability, can benefit by becoming more analytical over time. From strategy to execution, Accenture works with businesses, government agencies and other public service organizations to develop the predictive capabilities needed to outperform in these fast-changing times.

Analytic capabilities underpin the most important imperatives C-suite officers face today:

• Driving growth—from new markets, new customer segments and opportunities, marketing transformation and innovation.
  
  
• Enhancing cost and cash advantage—through balance sheet efficiency; enhanced working capital; better capital allocation and return on investment; and resetting structural costs for more flexibility.
   
• Improving operational excellence—by realigning the operating model; reengineering key processes; focusing on lean processes and operational effectiveness; and sourcing operational excellence.
  
  
• Restructuring the business at scale—through M&A, divestitures, consortia, industry restructuring, value chain restructuring and business ecosystems.
   
• Winning the war for talent—by re-skilling the workforce, sourcing new talent, developing change agents and creating a human capital strategy.

 
From strategy to execution, Accenture Analytics delivers the insights.

As a recognized visionary and industry leader, we have continually increased our analytic sophistication and capabilities—from batch reporting in the 1970s, to pioneering information management and performance management solutions in 1992, to the creation of a dedicated information management services organization in 2005. Accenture Analytics is our next-generation response to a corporate legacy of ongoing innovation.

• Best people. Our global network of professionals offers a combination of deep analytic skills, industry knowledge and process experience.
  
  
• Proven offerings. Thanks to our years of experience in the field, we offer more than 100 industry, cross-industry and function-specific offerings; more than 200 standards and industry-leading practices; automated development tools; and reusable architecture components.
  
  
• Unparalleled R&D. Accenture Analytics is the culmination of a long history of innovation in information management.
  
  
• Strategic alliances. Although we are vendor neutral, we have formed an ecosystem of strategic vendors with whom we team in analytics, including core alliances with SAS, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft.
  
  
• Global scale. Through the Accenture Global Delivery Network, Accenture industrializes analytics processes through automation and continuous improvement, creating a vast engine to drive data-driven insight.
  
  

Accenture Analytics uses its experience, offerings and solutions to reduce risk and speed time to value, helping you compete on analytics across any business function or process—in any industry or geography.

We offer a full spectrum of services, from point solutions to end-to-end integration to outsourcing of key business processes, such as:

Cross functional solutions to drive stronger business outcomes from your analytics investments:

• Enterprise analytics
• Organization effectiveness for analytics

Functional analytics to transform a specific function or business process:

• Sales and marketing
• Customer service
• Supply chain
• Procurement
• Finance
• Human capital
• Operations

Industry analytics to adapt specific capabilities, such as:

• Warranty analytics in consumer electronics, industrial equipment and auto
• Commercial Analytics for the Pharmaceutical and Medical Products Industry
• Actuarial analytics for insurance and mortgage underwriting
• Smart grid analytics in utilities and the building materials industry
• Advanced process analytics in chemicals, energy and mining
• Public sector analytics for intelligence, security, safety, logistics, health and revenue
• Churn analytics in retail, banking, mobility, internet services and communications

Information management to tackle the full breadth of information management challenges, including:

• Data management, architecture and infrastructure
• Enabling technology and application infrastructure
• Enabling organization capability development
• Business/ customer business intelligence and analytic capability requirements