Accenture and SAP Accelerate Business Transformation with AI
Accenture and SAP are collaborating to harness the power of generative AI and drive business transformation. This partnership aims to enhance productivity, foster innovation, and provide a competitive edge by leveraging AI technologies within SAP solutions.
Accenture and SAP have a long-standing partnership, spanning over four decades. This collaboration has consistently pushed the boundaries of technological evolution, helping various industries adapt and thrive in the market. As generative AI becomes increasingly pivotal in business applications, this partnership further aims to bring about unprecedented levels of productivity and innovation.
In recent years, many organizations have experimented with generative AI. The year 2024 marks a shift towards realizing scalable value from AI by leveraging enterprise data and enhancing digital cores with embedded AI capabilities. Accenture and SAP are committed to helping clients accelerate revenue growth with SAP Business AI offerings, including Joule, SAP Datasphere, and SAP HANA Cloud vector engine.
Driving Business Outcomes with SAP Business AI
The integration of AI into business processes is transforming how companies operate, making them more efficient and agile. Accenture and SAP are also focusing on essential areas for the C-suite, such as leading with value, investing in digital cores, nurturing talent, practicing responsible AI, and committing to continuous reinvention. Additionally, this strategic approach ensures that organizations can capitalize on AI’s potential and maintain a competitive edge.
SAP’s Joule is a notable example of how AI is being integrated into business processes. Joule enhances cloud ERP transformations by improving IT and business user experiences through new capabilities. Furthermore, Accenture plans to leverage Joule’s consulting capabilities, employing a team of AI experts and prompt designers to deliver user responses aligned with SAP industry best practices.
SAP Chief AI Officer Philipp Herzig emphasizes the importance of the ecosystem in adopting SAP Business AI. The collaboration with Accenture is crucial in activating SAP’s embedded AI capabilities, such as Joule and SAP Business Technology Platform. This partnership is also expected to deliver significant business transformations and operational improvements for customers.
Moreover, Accenture is actively developing various use cases utilizing SAP Business AI. For instance, their financial advisor, which won the SAP 2024 Innovation award, employs SAP AI core and large language models to unlock financial value from transactions and ledgers. This has resulted in a 15% reduction in decision-making time and a 60% decrease in efforts required for financial narratives, along with real-time financial data insights.
Leveraging SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX
SAP and Accenture are also focusing on SAP Signavio and SAP LeanIX solutions to provide customers with the quantitative insights necessary for cloud ERP adoption. In addition, this collaboration aims to streamline business processes, eliminate inefficiencies, and maximize the potential of generative AI.
The combined efforts of SAP and Accenture are also designed to examine and optimize business processes at all organizational levels. SAP’s foundational implementation support, coupled with Accenture’s analysis and advisory services, significantly reduces the time required for current state and gap analysis, enabling clients to achieve value more quickly.
Meanwhile, Mani Pirouz, Chief Business Officer of SAP Signavio and LeanIX, highlights the value of this partnership in delivering agile, resilient, and intelligent enterprises. SAP Signavio provides insights, collaboration, governance, and execution capabilities for continuous process improvements, allowing companies to unlock additional business value.
The Accenture and SAP Approach to Digital Transformation
Accenture and SAP’s approach is grounded in a value-led methodology that considers an organization’s entire value chain. This holistic perspective helps clients understand the potential of generative AI to reinvent their operations and develop end-to-end capabilities.
The partnership encourages companies to be value-led in their business transformations, identifying strategic areas where AI can create unique value. This involves shifting from siloed functions to integrated business capabilities supported by a unified data architecture and cross-functional teams.
Caspar Borggreve, Senior Managing Director and Lead of Accenture SAP Business Group, underscores the importance of combining Accenture’s industry expertise with SAP solutions. This collaboration aims to help clients systematically define and realize value, moving beyond isolated use cases to a comprehensive view of industry value chains. By prioritizing investments and leveraging generative AI, organizations can achieve efficiencies and scale their competitiveness.
Through innovative solutions like Joule and SAP Business AI offerings, Accenture and SAP are setting the stage for a future where AI-driven insights and capabilities are at the forefront of business success.
