Accenture and Schneider Electric

Co-innovating to accelerate digital transformation

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, innovates connected technologies that reshape industries, transform cities, and enrich lives for its customers. As with their Digital Services Factory, Schneider partners with Accenture to create responsive, customer-centric digital solutions. This approach allows for responsive, agile digital innovation in three specific ways:

We strive to cut the development time to market by 80 percent, so that customers can drive forward their digital transformation and gain improved efficiency, sustainability, and productivity.

Driving co-innovation

Through the partnership to date, Accenture and Schneider Electric have ideated more than 100 new service ideas, incubated more than 10 new offers and launched three new services to the market. 

Thriving in the digital economy

Schneider Electric has also accelerated their analytics capabilities with the Analytics Factory, which is one of the capabilities of the Digital Services Factory. Combining real-time analytics with connected technologies and solutions on an Internet of Things platform, helps Schneider Electric answer customer needs.

Solving customers’ biggest digital transformation challenges at scale

How do we solve customers’ problems together?

Our joint offerings

• EcoStruxure Asset Advisor proactively addresses issues inside electrical distribution equipment to mitigate the risk of electrical failure, leveraging connected equipment, health and predictive algorithms with Service Bureau to monitor and anticipate risks. This new offer relies on an innovative business model combining asset selling with recurring service fees (starting model), this can evolve to an outcome-based model.
• EcoStruxure Machine Advisor is a cloud-based services platform for machine builders. Track machines in operation worldwide, monitor performance data and fix exceptional events, while reducing support costs by up to 50 percent. Same business model as Asset Advisor.
• Schneider Electric Exchange brings together experts and innovators from across industry, software, and startups to solve sustainability and efficiency business challenges. The digital ecosystem provides technology resources through APIs, data science/datasets, and SDKs; access to private and public communities; and a Digital Marketplace. Schneider Electric Exchange leverages a strategic partnership with Accenture to accelerate and scale digital innovation to solve specific customer problems related to energy and process efficiency.

Start your digital transformation journey today

Schneider Electric’s Cyril Perducat and Accenture’s Jean Cabanes, share insights and best practices for companies embarking on a digital transformation journey.