Accenture Positioned as a Leader in Delivering SAP® Business Suite Powered by SAP HANA® to Oil and Gas Companies, According to IDC MarketScape Report
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has been positioned as a leader in the IDC
MarketScape Worldwide Professional Services Firms for “SAP Suite on
HANA” in Oil and Gas Vendor Assessment.
The report assessed services firms’ offerings and capabilities in SAP®
Business Suite powered by SAP HANA®, including business
consulting, technology consulting, systems integration, application
outsourcing and hosted application management. It also considered
vendors’ experience in serving oil and gas customers, global service
delivery capabilities and intellectual property developed for SAP
Business Suite powered by SAP HANA.
The report noted that Accenture “exercises this global scope and scale
in a close partnership with SAP and reports delivering more than 100
HANA projects, having more than 20 SAP credentials, completing more than
80,000 hours of new SAP training as of mid-2014 and having more than
2,000 HANA implementation tools and accelerators in its repositories.”
“The latest IDC MarketScape leadership position for Accenture reflects
our strong track record in combining deep business insights with new
technologies to help our oil and gas clients improve operational
efficiency and effectiveness,” said Andrew Smart, global managing
director, Accenture
energy industry group. “Even before low oil prices hit, the
Accenture and SAP Business Solutions Group developed upstream production
operations (UPO) software to deliver revenue accounting, enterprise
resource planning (ERP) applications, and production accounting tools so
that our clients can better operate in the cyclical oil and gas
industry. This has since been bolstered by our continued investments in
technologies, such as analytics, mobility and cloud.”
Accenture’s experience with multiple projects at a range of oil and gas
companies, national and international, includes SAP Business Suite
powered by SAP HANA and analytics solutions running on SAP HANA in areas
such as production loss analysis and well maintenance optimization.
Also, Accenture has helped oil and gas companies to understand the
implications of adopting SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, with
and without optimization, and has developed additional digital
transformation roadmaps for upstream and downstream clients.
"Oil and gas companies are looking at new technologies that can help
them achieve greater operating efficiency and manage through the
multiple disruptions hitting the industry,” said Jill Feblowitz, vice
president, IDC Energy Insights. “‘SAP Suite on HANA’ with its potential
for business transformation, is just such a technology. Oil and gas
companies need service providers that bring both expertise with SAP
solutions and experience in the oil and gas industry to help them
leverage ‘SAP Suite on HANA.’ Even at this early stage of the market,
there are service providers that are aggressively building their
capabilities and offerings. Vendors that can show competency in ‘Suite
on HANA’ will be the ones to watch as SAP moves along its roadmap for
SAP S/4HANA."
You can access the IDC MarketScape page here.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and
outsourcing company, with more than 336,000 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$30.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Its home page
is www.accenture.com.
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview
of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications
technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology
utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and
quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of
each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a
clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities
and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and
telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework
also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the
strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
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