Application Services for SAP: Services Overview

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Often, this involves helping them leverage SAP technologies to create distinctive capabilities, their own unique formula for business success.

With a value-led, asset-powered approach, we start by pinpointing our clients’ widely varying business goals and value drivers. We design programs that are tightly aligned with client business objectives; drive towards tangible, measurable business results; and build the capabilities that allow them to sustain and extend business improvements.

Wherever clients are positioned in the SAP lifecycle, we deliver the highest quality SAP solutions through our SAP practitioners, market-leading assets and methodologies, investments in research and innovation and long-standing alliance with SAP.

Accenture has the rare scope, breadth and objectivity to meet client needs, whether a straightforward technical implementation or an enterprise-wide transformational change.

Our SAP focus is on three key areas:

Business Value—Driving measurable business results is our key objective. We deliver cost-effective, high-quality SAP solutions through a range of tools, methodologies and other assets. The Accenture Delivery Suite for SAP offers reliable SAP implementations based on our experience delivering more than 1,500 SAP projects a year. View this video to hear from some of the clients we have worked with.

Innovation—We differentiate our SAP offerings by investing in innovation: illuminating the ERP landscape and ongoing trends; developing assets that fill the “white space” in the SAP solutions portfolio; and envisioning the next generation of SAP solutions. The Accenture Innovation Centers for SAP are our hubs for learning, modeling, research and developing new solutions and assets. We share our experiences through publication and industry events, such as our annual Accenture SAP Leadership Council.

Best People and Relationships—Ensuring we have the quantity and quality of skills and resources to meet client commitments is our most important investment. Our SAP practitioners—numbering 36,000 globally—are continuously expanding their capabilities and benefit from our significant investment in training.

The strength of our three-decades-long relationship with SAP is also a key factor in our successful delivery of SAP services and solutions and is recognized by industry analysts as a differentiator for Accenture and a benefit for our clients.

Our projects range from straightforward technical implementations to enterprise-wide transformational change initiatives supported by proven solutions and a full spectrum of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. Accenture’s SAP capabilities include:

• Accenture functional solutions for SAP: We have developed a number of innovative functional solutions using SAP technology, some in collaboration with SAP, including: enterprise performance; analytics and business intelligence; business value realization; cloud; CRM; finance and performance management; governance, risk and compliance; human capital; data management; service-oriented architecture; supply chain; sustainability and upgrades.

• Accenture industry solutions for SAP: Accenture and SAP collaborate on a number of innovative industry-specific solutions to help our clients get the most out of their enterprise solutions investments. These include solutions for the following industries: automotive; chemicals; communications; consumer goods and services; electronics and high tech; energy; financial services; health; industrial equipment; manufacturing; metals; mining; oil and gas; public service; retail; transportation and travel services and utilities.

• Accenture outsourcing services for SAP: Accenture offers the full spectrum of outsourcing services for organizations using SAP, including business process outsourcing, application outsourcing, infrastructure outsourcing and shared services.