Accenture Advanced Enterprise Solution for Defense

Defense organizations are under pressure to perform better, and more cost-effectively, all while keeping pace with changing military doctrines. Faced with an unprecedented volume and pace of disruptive marketplace shifts, they are in need of transparency, agility and compliance, quality and efficiency as well as improved networking with external partners and increased internal employee integration.

An optimized enterprise resource planning solution can help transform defense organizations to meet these imperatives. Accenture Advanced Enterprise Solution (AAES) for Defense is an innovative, comprehensive, proven and defense-specific enterprise resource planning solution designed to help defense organizations quickly and smoothly adapt to change and improve their performance.

The Accenture Advanced Enterprise Solution (AAES) for Defense is an innovative and comprehensive package of defense-industry specific templates, industry-leading process models and industrialized implementation accelerators that help defense organizations to finetune their ERP solution quickly and economically for peak performance, while anticipating and resolving related challenges. The solution incorporates the findings of Accenture’s High Performance Business research—which examines what sets high performers apart from their peers—and is designed to accelerate ERP transformation so that defense organizations can perform optimally while reducing costs and risks.

AAES for Defense is based on a proven approach, incorporating Accenture’s extensive defense industry knowledge. It is flexible and can be aligned to unique needs, yet is designed for easy deployment within an accelerated time frame compared to most enterprise solutions.

AAES for Defense links defense industry-leading processes to enterprise resource planning templates using the latest technologies— making it a proven, comprehensive, integrated solution. AAES for Defense is packaged with complete process documentation and industrialized implementation accelerators. Rather than devoting months or years to overseeing implementation, the accelerated implementation path allows defense organizations to free up resources for more value-adding strategic and operational issues.

AAES for defense works in concert with other Accenture services, including value-driven business process management (see sidebar), which ensures that the full targeted potential of technology investment is achieved.