Accenture has developed a powerful network of alliances with the core objective of helping our clients become high-performance businesses and governments by getting the most value out of technology investments. Our alignment with market leaders and emerging players enables us to deliver a more complete solution to our clients.
Our network of alliance relationships strengthens our ability to help clients achieve sustainable IT cost reduction; reduced total cost of ownership; reduced delivery risk; and accelerated vendor identification and evaluation cycle time.
Our Network of Key SaaS Alliances includes:
CallidusCloud
CallidusCloud is a leading provider of cloud software and enables organizations to drive performance and productivity across their business with its hiring, learning, marketing and selling clouds. Together, Accenture and CallidusCloud help our clients achieve high performance through industry leading sales and marketing business services and technology solutions. As Callidus’ sole global premier business partner, Accenture brings nearly 500 dedicated CallidusCloud trained resources with business acumen, deep industry experience and cloud leadership to our clients that have chosen cloud computing solutions. Accenture has successfully deployed Callidus-based solutions to more Fortune 1000 clients than any other business partner across multiple industries including Financial Services, Communication, Media, High Tech and Life Sciences.
Eloqua
Accenture and Eloqua collaborate with clients to deliver value faster, by providing SaaS-based solutions in customer relationship management, demand generation, marketing automation and lead management. Eloqua on-demand software allows executives to track campaign success, lead quality and flow, and monitor the needs of their sales prospects.
Accenture has experience in implementing SaaS Solutions and integrating customer relationship management systems. Together, the two companies provide a powerful solution that delivers value to customers.
Microsoft
Accenture and Avanade, a business technology services provider dedicated to using the Microsoft platform to help enterprises achieve profitable growth, are committed to delivering Cloud computing solutions on the Windows Azure Platform that can help improve performance and reduce costs. The teaming of Accenture and Avanade with Microsoft offers our clients the unique combination of market-leading SaaS and Cloud vision and technologies, industry insight, business acumen and delivery skills that will help them migrate to the Windows Azure Platform and realize significant benefits quickly.
In addition, Accenture is delivering Microsoft Dynamics CRM as an enterprise-wide SaaS solution via Avanade Online Services—a new business which focuses on helping organizations use SaaS as a strategic means to achieve key business objectives.
NetSuite
Teamed in a global alliance, Accenture and NetSuite offer your organization a powerful way to rapidly realize the transformative benefits of NetSuite’s cloud-based business management solutions in your enterprise. Accenture works with NetSuite’s industry-leading solutions for ERP/financials, CRM, ecommerce, and supply chain to get the most business value from your solution by addressing critical elements such as business process design, customization, data migration and skill development.
Oracle
Accenture and Oracle are teaming to deliver on-demand subscription-based scalable CRM solutions that allow customers to leverage and customize different services at a per-month, per-user fee while efficiently managing and protecting business information. On Demand software manages the entire Oracle stack including database, middleware and applications, totaling more than 360 solutions. On Demand, with the benefit of single-vendor accountability, also offers flexible SaaS deployment options such as multi-tenant, single-tenant and "at customer," allowing tailored services based on business needs.
Salesforce.com
Accenture and salesforce.com are a one-stop source for large global enterprises that need to define and implement cloud-based solutions across the entire organization. We have a six-year track record of delivering agile, enterprise-scale, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud-based computing solutions that deliver greater productivity, revenues and ROI, and greater customer satisfaction.
Building on the foundation of customer relationship management (CRM), Accenture and salesforce.com make it easier than ever for organizations to harness cloud-computing benefits in traditional areas such as sales force automation, fast-growing areas such as customer service and support, and emerging areas such as asset tracking, contract management, human resources and supply chain. With Force.com, salesforce.com’s cloud platform, our clients can also run complete enterprise resource planning solutions, as well as any number of custom applications. Accenture and saleforce.com provide innovative approaches to customer service via salesforce.com’s Service Cloud 2, a multi-faceted application that helps organizations provide more timely identification and support of service issues, whether customers choose to interact via phone, email, the Web or even via popular social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.
Workday
Accenture and Workday have been helping organizations improve business agility and proactively manage the workforce by integrating people and processes through superior Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions. Accenture’s leading HCM capabilities coupled with Workday’s innovative SaaS-based solutions help our clients quickly ramp up the value of their HR systems and harness the full potential of their organization’s entire workforce.
Veeva
Accenture and Veeva are working together to develop SaaS-based Customer Relationship Management Solutions built on Force.com (Salesforce.com’s Cloud platform) for the global life sciences industry. The solutions offer fully functional CRM applications that are flexible, simple to deploy, inexpensive to operate, and provide a superior user experience.