Accenture Launches Three Innovation Centers for SAP® Solutions in Asia-Pacific

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May 29, 2012

Accenture Launches Three Innovation Centers for SAP® Solutions in Asia-Pacific

New Centers Open in China, Japan, and Singapore

 

NEW YORK; May 29, 2012 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced it is expanding its global network of Innovation Centers for SAP® solutions with the opening of new centers in Beijing, Tokyo, and Singapore.  Focused on accelerating the development, delivery and commercialization of business solutions based on SAP technologies, the centers will help clients increase speed to market, enhance flexibility, and improve business performance. 

 

The Accenture Innovation Centers for SAP solutions bring together Accenture’s functional and industry expertise with the latest SAP technologies, including the SAP HANA® platform and mobility and cloud solutions.  Supported by teams of professionals from Accenture and SAP, the centers provide clients with process-specific business solutions, thought leadership around existing and emerging SAP solution-based technology, and the industrialization of the resulting solution, content and delivery methods.

 

“The new Accenture Innovation Centers for SAP solutions will help our clients in the Asia-Pacific region draw as much value as possible from their investments in SAP solutions, accelerating business results, and contributing to their international competitiveness,” said Mark Willford, global managing director of SAP business for Accenture. “These innovation centers bring the best of Accenture’s global experience while enabling the localization of those solutions to meet the specific business challenges in the region.”

 

The centers will focus on developing solutions for a variety of industries and clients can experience and access all Accenture industry solutions at any of the locations. Some initial areas of focus for the new locations include:

 

• The Accenture Innovation Center for SAP solutions in Beijing is focused on innovating new solutions for the communications, high tech, utilities, and retail industries. Specifically in utilities, the center will explore solutions that can be applied to help address China’s growing energy demands.
• The Accenture Innovation Center for SAP solutions in Tokyo is focused on developing innovative solutions for high-tech companies as well as the electric power industry, including exploring smart-meter analysis, which is essential for enabling smart cities.
• The Accenture Innovation Center for SAP solutions in Singapore has a preliminary emphasis on the consumer goods, utilities, oil and gas, and public sector industries. The center also serves as a hub to support clients from neighboring countries including Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

 

Accenture’s network of innovation centers are co-located with and leverage the skills and expertise at locations across the Accenture Global Delivery Network, Accenture Technology Labs and the Accenture Global Talent and Innovation Network. The four new centers join Accenture’s global network of innovation centers in support of SAP solutions, based in locations including San Jose, Calif.; Chicago; New York; Toronto; Sophia Antipolis, France; and Bangalore, India.

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 246,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

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Accenture to Expand Scope and Capabilities of Innovation Centers to Develop New Solutions Based on SAP® Database Technology

May 14, 2012

Accenture to Expand Scope and Capabilities of Innovation Centers to Develop New Solutions Based on SAP® Database Technology

 

Becomes First SAP Partner to Make Significant Commitment and Investment in SAP HANA®

 

ORLANDO, Fla.; May 14, 2012 - Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is expanding the scope of its Innovation Centers for SAP® solutions to become the first global systems integrator (SI) to focus on accelerating the development and delivery of SAP’s real-time database solutions and services, the company announced today. The goal is to help clients rapidly leverage the new innovations in database technology that SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has delivered with the introduction of the SAP HANA® platform. This move will enable organizations to capitalize on the strong potential that this fundamental shift in the role that the data layer presents for enterprise software solutions.

 

The announcement was made at the SAPPHIRE® NOW conference being held in Orlando, May 14 – 16, where Accenture is exhibiting in booth 2501.

 

"We’re ramping up the next phase of research and development in our Innovation Centers because we believe the new in-memory technology featured in SAP HANA can drive significant benefits for our clients," said Mark Willford, global managing director of SAP business for Accenture. "The rapid, easy and timely consumption of data represents a new frontier for unlocking the value of business applications and is key to the creation of new competitive advantage. With the tremendous performance and speed of SAP HANA, clients can take advantage of in-memory computing in a way that allows for real-time business modeling and hyperfast analytics processing across virtually any volume of structured and unstructured customer data. We’re pleased to be the first global SI to make a significant commitment to build on the new platform.”

 

As part of its commitment, Accenture will make a significant investment in creating a workforce of up to 1,000 professionals skilled in SAP database and technology solutions by the end of 2012 and a dedicated research and development (R&D) capability. Through this, it will not only develop new applications for the SAP database platform, but also offer a set of new tools and best practices developed specifically for this domain. Furthermore, Accenture plans to use its Innovation Centers as a solution and delivery channel for its clients and create a solution factory via its India locations.

 

"Accenture is one of our most important alliance partners and a top provider of SAP solutions, so we welcome the substantial investment they are making to build out a dedicated workforce in support of SAP database solutions," said Steve Lucas, executive vice president and global lead, Database and Technology, SAP. "Our customers tell us they plan to continue adopting solutions like SAP HANA. Given that Accenture has been investing with us from day one, we believe this announcement is great validation of our strategic direction for SAP HANA. Accenture's industry leadership, expertise and delivery capabilities make it the ideal partner to help drive the development and adoption of new solutions and business applications based on SAP’s real-time database platform.”

 

Together, Accenture and SAP intend to create a portfolio of client offerings to significantly improve performance of and investments in the lifecycle of data-layer implementations. The first solution culminating from this new investment is a real-time customer analytics solution based on the combination of Accenture’s Customer Insight (ACI) solution running on the SAP HANA platform with predictive analytics.

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 246,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.  Its home page is www.accenture.com.

                                                                       

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‘Superstacks’ Spreading Throughout Mobility, Enterprise and Consumer Electronics Markets, Accenture Research Finds

May 14, 2012

‘Superstacks’ Spreading Throughout Mobility, Enterprise and Consumer Electronics Markets, Accenture Research Finds

Mobility and mergers and acquisitions to be key drivers of superstack transformation

NEW YORK; May 14, 2012 – Mobility, enterprise computing and consumer electronics companies in the high-tech industry are being heavily impacted by a new business model called “superstacks,” according to new Accenture (NYSE: ACN) research. Accenture defines a superstack as a more extensive and cohesive integration of operating systems, semi­conductor chips, devices, applications and end-user services than the industry has traditionally achieved. The research also revealed that the primary driver of superstacks will be the mobility market, particularly in the smartphone arena where superstack-based products have already been made commercially available. The research also found that more mergers and acquisitions will occur as superstacks continue to coalesce in the digital ecosystem.

The research findings, based on interviews with high-tech executives globally and interactions with clients, are summarized in a new report, Competing in a High-Tech Industry “Superstack.”The research examined whether industry executives were aware of the superstack trend and its impact on their businesses, such as smartphones and tablets (mobility), data centers and the cloud (enterprise computing), and the digital home (consumer electronics).

The new report summarizes results of phone interviews with 30 executives of large high-tech companies including chief executive officers and vice presidents of strategy and business units. An overwhelming majority (83 percent) of the respondents said they have been or are being impacted by superstacks. Seventy-one percent said they have formalized their superstack strategies and set priorities such as owning critical intellectual property assets, fostering collaborative cultures across the stack, and managing strategic initiatives. Virtually all (96 percent) said superstacks bring their companies more opportunities than threats. 

“Competing in the superstack arena is a matter of survival as the high-tech industry moves full-throttle in this direction,” said Mitch Cline, managing director of Accenture’s Electronics & High-Tech business. “Some high-tech sectors are already there, such as mobile handsets, digital media services and connected TVs. Other sectors may take longer to adapt because they’re not as far along in this superstack evolution.”

When survey participants were asked which industry forces they expect would have the biggest financial impacts on the high-tech industry over the next three years, more than two-thirds (70 percent) cited mobility. Cloud computing and consumerization of IT in enterprises followed with 50 and 43 percent, respectively.

“Fueling new business models in healthcare, financial services and retail, mobility is by far the most powerful and biggest game-changer creating the need for super­stacks,” Cline added. “With mobility superstack battles now spreading to enterprise and consumer markets, the implications are profound for all high-tech players.”

When asked to speculate on a superstack strategy for the next few years, more than three-fourths (77 percent) of survey respondents said they would anticipate an increase in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. Participants were asked to give their top three reasons for pursuing such M&A transactions as part of their superstack strategies during the next two to three years. Half cited acquisition of intellectual proper­ty; the same percentage pointed to R&D to accelerate product deliveries. Forty-three percent specified gaining access to more talent, employees and expertise. More than one-third (37 percent) of respondents cited expanding product portfolios into new services.

“The superstack trend will prompt an intense burst in M&A activity and greater competition on multiple levels, especially in acquiring intellectual property and talent,” Cline added. “Winners will have tightly integrated, highly effective superstacks leveraging operating systems – the heart of superstacks – and delivering services and content to users seamlessly and securely. Superstack winners will excel at coordinating with other companies and disseminating research and development capital across superstacks.”

Research Methodology

Participants included representatives from the following industries: communications technology (5), consumer technology (8), enterprise technology (9), semiconductors (4), and software (4). The geographic breakdown of respondents was: Europe (13), North America (8), Asia Pacific (9); of these 30, six were done with emerging market players. Eighty percent of the respondents work for companies with annual revenues of US$2 billion or more. For a copy of the report, visit www.accenture.com/superstack. To access the superstack infographic, click here.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 246,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.  Its home page is www.accenture.com.

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