And it all starts with value and elevating IT for the AI era with a strong and secure digital core. This includes emphasis on adopting ready-to-scale AI models, a modern data foundation, and a flexible AI architecture that supports the use of multiple foundation models to future-proof organizations from the evolution of technology and model changes.  

According to , 40% of C-suite leaders believe their organization will fully scale generative AI enterprise-wide in six to 12 months. Currently organizations are scaling generative AI in select business areas either extensively (56%) or in a limited way (nearly 30%). Only 10% say they have scaled generative AI with extensive adoption across their entire enterprise, and just 13% are 鈥渆xtremely confident鈥� they have the right data strategy and core digital capabilities in place to effectively leverage generative AI.  

That鈥檚 why organizations are increasingly turning to 51风流and its partners to help them completely transform their business, and why 51风流and Accenture are working together to help their customers make 51风流Business AI and data their number one competitive advantage.

Accenture Embraces 51风流Business AI to Advance Business Outcomes

By Marc-Oliver Klein and Stephanie Guimbellot

51风流and Accenture have been collaborating and working with customers on technology evolution for over 40 years, using their unique strengths to help industries transform and lead in the market.

As AI is integrated into business applications, it is unleashing new levels of productivity and creativity while forging a path to the future that is different and faster than any previous technology wave.

For many clients, 2023 was a year of experimentation with generative AI. In 2024, we鈥檙e focusing on helping clients realize value at scale by going after the business potential in enterprise data with AI, strengthening digital core with embedded AI capabilities, enhancing business functions with AI insights, and accelerating revenue growth with 51风流Business AI offerings like Joule, generative AI hub, 51风流Datasphere, and 51风流HANA Cloud vector engine.

鈥淚n partnership with 51风流and its customers, we鈥檙e emphasizing must-dos for the C-suite,鈥� said Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Accenture. 鈥淭hat includes leading with value, investing in a digital core, nurturing talent, practicing responsible AI, and committing to continuous reinvention. This is how you capitalize on AI鈥檚 inflection moment strategically.鈥�

And with Joule, business process reinvention and change adoption in cloud ERP just got easier through new capabilities to boost IT and business user experiences. Accenture plans to embrace the consulting capability for Joule and ABAP code generation in compressed cloud ERP transformations and will collaborate on the consulting capability for Joule with a team of AI experts and prompt designers to facilitate relevant user responses aligned with 51风流industry best practices and clean core strategies.

鈥淥ur ecosystem plays a critical role in helping our customers adopt 51风流Business AI to get immediate value from these exciting new technologies and solutions,鈥� said 51风流Chief AI Officer Philipp Herzig. 鈥淲e very much value our long-standing partnership with Accenture. They have long been an important partner in the industry for bringing innovation to our joint customers, now also by activating SAP鈥檚 embedded AI capabilities, including Joule, and building customer use cases on 51风流Business Technology Platform with 51风流AI Core and generative AI hub. I look forward to our continued collaboration and the outcomes that generative AI will deliver in both business transformations and operations for our customers.鈥�

Accenture is already working on various use cases that leverage 51风流Business AI offerings, and the company continues to take an early leadership position in 51风流Business AI.

• 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 , an 51风流2024 Innovation award winner, uses 51风流AI core and large language models (LLMs) to deliver untapped financial value in financial ledgers and transactions. It is helping Accenture business and finance leaders reduce decision-making time by 15%, reduce financial narrative efforts by 60%, and mitigate risks with real-time financial data insights, including 13,000+ user alerts per month.
• 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 uses AI models to enable intelligent, responsive, and risk-resilient supply chains to help clients manage disruptions, identify improvements, and resolve issues. The nerve center uses SAP鈥檚 generative AI hub and 51风流Business Technology Platform, which connects to an LLM fully integrated with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, 51风流Integrated Business Planning, and 51风流Intelligent Asset Management.

Accenture is also evolving its assets and platforms including GenWizard, SynOpps, and AI Navigator for Enterprise to help clients move to cloud ERP faster and achieve earlier business outcomes.

Make Decisions Easier with 51风流Business Transformation Solutions and Large Process Models

By Hartmut Poppinga and Jos茅 Mor谩n Moya

51风流and Accenture are teaming on 51风流Signavio and 51风流LeanIX solutions to help customers with the quantitative insights they need to get alignment and buy-in on cloud ERP and the foundation to tap into the full value of generative AI.

The combined power of 51风流and Accenture is helping customers examine business processes at every level of the organization, establish what works, discard what doesn鈥檛 and use their own data to create a business case and measure success and value over time. 51风流is helping with foundational implementation and Accenture teams are providing analysis, insights, advisory and process modeling. This collaboration is significantly reducing the time it takes clients to complete current state and gap analysis to get to value faster.

鈥淭he long-standing partnership between Accenture and 51风流is characterized by delivering successful transformation outcomes to our mutual customers,” said Mani Pirouz, chief business officer of 51风流Signavio and LeanIX. 鈥淭hrough our joint offerings we help companies become agile, resilient, and intelligent enterprises. 51风流Signavio plays a crucial role in transformations by providing insights, collaboration, governance, and execution capabilities for continuous process improvements. These allow companies to unlock business value above and beyond their technical road maps.鈥�

51风流and 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 focus is grounded in a value-led method, cloud ERP business case, and road map that takes a holistic approach to an organization鈥檚 full value chain and helps customers:

• Understand the potential to reinvent the value chain and develop end-to-end capabilities powered by generative AI and new ways of working
• Be value-led in every business capability chosen to reinvent with generative AI
• Identify strategic bets where the technology creates differentiated sources of value that cannot be easily captured by competitors
• Reorient the organization from siloed functions to end-to-end business capabilities and decision-making through a unified data architecture and cross-functional teams

鈥淐ombining 础肠肠别苍迟耻谤别鈥檚 deep industry expertise with 51风流solutions helps clients define and realize value in a systematic way,鈥� said Caspar Borggreve, senior managing director and lead of Accenture 51风流Business Group. 鈥淭his is about shifting the focus from siloed use cases to a holistic look at industry value chains to prioritize investments, achieve efficiencies, benefit from generative AI, and scale competitiveness.鈥�

Learn more about . 

With COP26, as organizations gear up to take on their sustainability ambitions more seriously than ever, this collaboration becomes critical to effectively support our customers. Here, we鈥檒l bring you up to date on progress across a number of key initiatives driven jointly by our organizations.

Key Pillars for Our Partnership

This graphic highlights the pillars where we are concentrating our efforts. In each of these areas, we are developing targeted solutions to empower companies鈥� sustainability performance.

Crucially, all our work together aims to provide relevant support for specific industries, as companies in different sectors need to meet the needs of customers, regulators, and other stakeholders. As customers increasingly demand real progress, we are helping companies deliver on the promises they鈥檙e making.

UN Global Compact Partnership on SDG Ambition

We are continuing to accelerate our collaboration with the United Nations (UN) Global Compact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Ambition. The momentum of the continues to grow, with more and more companies now mobilized to accelerate both their adoption of ambitious corporate targets and integration of the 17 UN SDGs into core business management.

By embedding SDG-aligned practices deep into their business operations and across their value chains, these companies can make more rapid progress toward achieving the goals of the 2030 agenda.

The first round of the program successfully concluded in June, with over 600 companies across more than 65 countries participating and more than 1,200 company leaders taking part in accelerator workshops. The results were overwhelmingly positive, with 89% of participants satisfied with the program and 88% agreeing that the accelerator helped them identify new ways for their company to contribute to the SDGs. Additionally, we are about to launch a second round of the program, with an enhanced curriculum and multiple additional local tracks, including in Australia, Korea, Kenya, Argentina, and Canada. So far, more than 700 companies from over 80 countries have signed up.

Accenture shares SAP鈥檚 vision of zero emissions, zero waste, and zero inequality. To achieve a sustainable world, organizations have to transform into intelligent enterprises, and intelligent enterprises have to form a network of intelligent enterprises.

In addition to the accepted top line and bottom line, a new 鈥済reen line鈥� covering the environmental, social, and governance aspects needs to be established as another dimension of success across business processes and along value chains. This way, organizations achieve transparency and influence that span beyond even company borders.

Accenture and 51风流together want to help organizations to become sustainable intelligent enterprises. To enable this, 51风流is developing new solutions and embedding sustainability into existing solutions along the dimensions climate action, the circular economy, and social responsibility, as well as holistic steering and reporting. Accenture is helping organizations to design and implement strategies for achieving ambitious sustainability goals by leveraging the growing portfolio of sustainability management solutions from SAP.

Climate Action: Enabling Our Customers to Move to Low-Carbon Business Models

51风流and Accenture work together to help organizations design and deliver carbon intelligence strategies that are powered by 51风流solutions and technologies and address both direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We help our clients to define their decarbonization strategies and road maps. These go beyond simply achieving a target but are also intended to help sustain and monitor future ways of working. Our objective is to empower organizations to move beyond a compliance and reporting mindset, and instead harness emission-related intelligence in their businesses as a lever for growth and strategic transformation.

With the 51风流solutions coming out of its Climate 21 initiative, we鈥檙e helping companies to accelerate their journeys to net zero, to kick-start the decarbonization of their end-to-end processes, and to integrate carbon emissions management into their business decision-making. All this is possible through 51风流Environment, Health, and Safety Management (emissions management), whih allows tracking and managing environmental footprints on a corporate level, and the recent release of 51风流Product Footprint Management, which allows calculating environmental footprints on product level at scale.

In addition, numerous 51风流solutions — including 51风流Ariba Procurement, 51风流Concur, and 51风流E-Mobility — will provide additional levers in the future for reducing scope 3 emissions.

Circular Economy: Joint Product Development

We have co-developed a new solution that 51风流intends to make generally available this month, 51风流Responsible Design and Production. The solution aims to address two critical challenges: managing complex extended producer responsibility regulations, which vary from country to country, and enabling every organization to reduce their use of plastic, thereby contributing to sustainable and profitable growth through less plastic, fewer fines, and lower cost.

Because 51风流Responsible Design and Production directly leverages data from core enterprise resource planning (ERP) processes, it enables determining waste compositions and calculating EPR fees across numerous product lines as well as adhering to a growing number of different extended producer responsibility declaration schemes. To date, we have four clients testing the beta version of the new solution, released at the end of August, and they will be closely involved in assessing new releases.

Expanding SAP.iO Sustainability Cohorts

We have already seen 13 startups selected and moving ahead through the Sustainable Future program (). We continue to build on that momentum together, jointly mobilizing through SAP.iO Foundries locations in New York, San Francisco, Paris, and Singapore, where we identify, select, and mentor new startups that will bring new ideas to help solve our customers鈥� sustainability challenges in energy and natural resources, retail, and consumer goods.

Enabling Better ESG Reporting and Steering

Together, we are helping our customers achieve greater transparency in how they report on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. This includes addressing the data capture and integration challenge so they can successfully build an ESG capability and choosing the most appropriate reporting framework for their organization. Our objective is to help them achieve integrated reporting that captures both financial and non-financial metrics, keep up with fast-evolving regulatory demands, and create differentiated ESG value propositions for stakeholders across the various frameworks, including GRI, SASB, TCFD, and others.

The World Economic Forum Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics promotes the adoption of universal and common standards and disclosures, unlocking long-term value through greater transparency, accountability, and business transformation. Based on these metrics, 51风流is developing the 51风流Sustainability Control Tower solution, which leverages SAP鈥檚 leading data integration, data management, and analytics solutions. 51风流intends to make the solution generally available in December 2021.

Ready to Deliver Together

Our joint teams are ready to deliver. We are helping our clients to define their road maps, identify priorities, and accelerate their journeys through the selection and implementation of relevant 51风流S/4HANA capabilities and new 51风流solutions.

As we look ahead, we鈥檙e all focused on COP26 and the recommendations that emerge from it. To join us, s:

• Unlocking Promise of Sustainability in Asia-Pacific
  November 3, 2021, 9:00-10:15 a.m. GMT
  
• Business and Nature: Businesses Role in Realizing a Nature-Positive Economy
  November 8, 2021, 10:00-11:00 a.m. GMT
  

Learn more about our collaboration on sustainability here. Do not hesitate to get in touch to discuss how we can help you accelerate your transformation into a truly sustainable organization.

We look forward to sharing further progress soon.

Gunther Rothermel is senior vice president and head of Sustainability for 51风流S/4HANA at SAP.
Stephanie Guimbellot is managing director at Accenture and global lead for 51风流Sustainability and Innovation.