technology factor: accelerating your journey to as a service

The Technology Factor: Accelerating the As-a-Service Journey

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The pressure to innovate faster is intensifyingOrganizations must outmaneuver competitors by delivering robust services …

How can our traditional and costly operational processes be transformed to accelerate our growth?

• In less time.• With more flexibility.• Using fewer resources.

“IT leaders are asking:

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A dramatically different approachPlug into our business services. Start small, scale quickly … and pay only for what you use.

An entirely new As-a-Service model “

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We’re leading a shift from focusing on the number of people it takes to run repetitive, commodity-driven transaction processing to value-based engagements focused on business outcomes, delivered as a service.

Jack Sepple Group Technology Officer

Accenture Operations

• Digitize and automate repetitive transactional tasks.

• Unlock critical insights.• Plug into agile computing power.• Build an innovation engine


Accelerating your As-a-Service journey

Intelligent Technology

Digitize and automate

processes,unlock critical

insights and plug into agile

computing power.

Innovation Engine

Leverage our deep internal industry and

functional expertise, external

market leaders and a wide

range of partnerships.

Results

Innovate faster, create new

services, drive revenue

and reduce costs.


Intelligent technology transforms operations

Become an intelligent digital business: Innovate faster, create new services and

exploit new business opportunities.

Digital

ProcessesAgile

PlatformsData-driven

InsightsInnovation

Ecosystem


Digital ProcessesYears of investing keeps us at the forefront of the industry.

With mini-bots, robotics and artificial intelligence, our deep experience with intelligent technologies helps you digitize, automate and transform entire business processes.


Digitizing and automating repetitive, transactional tasks Using cognitive and artificial intelligence, we can help you transition to Business Process-as-a-Service. It frees your team to focus on higher-level analysis, decision-making and innovation.

Automation solutions are deployed

across our Global Delivery Network.

2,500These operations are equivalent to freeing

up more than 12 million manual work hours per year.

12 millionOur elite “Tech Masters” team

is dedicated to innovating,incubating and executing

automation solutions.

3,500


Digital Insights

Unlock new insights with meaningful and decision-supporting analytics. We embed descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics into all that we do.

Ramp up quickly with Analytics-as-a-Service and drive business value by:

•Making better decisions.•Reducing costs.•Increasing revenues. •Innovating continuously.


Plug into industry- or function-specific applications and gain valuable insights specific to your business

We used Spend Optimizer to help a global oil and gas

company reduce non-contract spend by 10

percent through contract coverage, compliance and

vendor rationalization.

Descriptive Analytics: Predictive Analytics: Prescriptive Analytics:

With advanced predictive sales analytics, we helped a

large automobile manufacturer increase

marketing campaign ROI by 74 percent and market share

by five percent.

Accenture used Intelligent Collections to help a U.S.-based computer hardware, software and electronics company identify working

capital leakage of more than 50 percent, totaling $41M in

potential benefits.


Agile PlatformsAccenture’s Intelligent Business Cloud, powered by our Accenture Cloud Platform, provides unprecedented agility and the compelling economics always promised by the cloud.

Get the enterprise-grade ruggedness that you expect. •Infrastructure-as-a-Service.•Platform-as-a-Service.•Software-as-a-Service.•Business Process-as-a-Service.


Creating unprecedented agility and compelling economics with our Intelligent Business Cloud

Rio Tinto Our Intelligent Business Cloud helped convince Rio Tinto – a leading global, diversified mining group – to migrate its main IT systems to the Accenture Cloud Platform (a multi-cloud platform) and transform to an Everything-as-a-Service, pay-per-use model.

DuPont

DuPont, a world leader in market-driven innovation and science, is exploring the Intelligent Business Cloud as the way to deliver IT as a consumable service, increasing agility and improving its ability to anticipate and deliver.

Freeport-McMoRan

Accenture is helping Freeport-McMoRan, one of the largest international natural resource companies, mine the Intelligent Business Cloud to build a prototype for a new Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform.

Mortgage Cadence

By combining Mortgage Cadence technology with the Accenture Best Practices Model for mortgage processing, Accenture Credit Services delivers stronger controls, improved quality and enhanced customer satisfaction. We used analytic-driven workflow for loan origination, processing, underwriting and other loan functions. In addition to a markedly improved customer experience and significantly reduced loan processing costs, lending productivity can be improved by up to 30 percent.


Innovative EcosystemWe have a long history of applying innovation to our clients’ challenges – it’s part of our culture and it’s central to the way we work with clients.

We have more than 3,500 automation specialists at the ready, dedicated to innovating, incubating and executing automation solutions.

Shannon GilbertsonManaging Director, Growth & Strategy Accenture Operations

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Connecting you with the best ideas, brightest people and most powerful solutionsAn emerging technology or opportunity should never be missed. Our ecosystem of internal thinkers and external market leaders fuels our culture and creates an innovation engine for our clients.

Crowdsourcing with initiatives such as We@Accenture and “Tech Masters” challenges.

Bringing clients fresh insights and the most promising emerging technologies through Accenture’s Technology Labs.

Working with more than 400 clients to spark new ideas and arrive at unique solutions.

Collaborating with the industry’s widest range of alliances.


Contacts

Jack Sepple

Group Technology OfficerAccenture Operations

[email protected]

Shannon Gilbertson

Managing DirectorGrowth & Strategy Accenture Operations

[email protected]

Manish Sharma

Senior Managing Director, Global Delivery & Solution DevelopmentAccenture Operations

[email protected]