Accenture SAP HANA

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Market set for lift off The transformational nature of SAP HANA hasbeen picked up quickly by market commentatorsand analysts. For example, earlier this year,when SAP announced the availability of SAPBusiness Suite powered by HANA the marketreacted very positively. As SAP’s leadingalliance partner and the first systems integratorto invest in HANA, Accenture is making a

significant commitment to the platform. Weare making substantial investments in theresources and expertise that are required tosupport the platform. That includes creatingan internal organization fully dedicated toHANA that will number thousands of employeesexclusively focused on HANA, investments in aDevelopment Factory for SAP BW on HANA, 12dedicated SAP Accenture Innovation Centersaround the world, a HANA Business Casedevelopment methodology and the creation of14 industry-specific ‘day in the life’ scenarios toshowcase the power of the SAP HANA platform

at work in a real business context.

Run the

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• Reducing applications running cost via database/legacy applications offering

• Improving transactional applications performance• Enabling horizontal, elastic scalability (scale up/down)

• Boosting response time in analytical applications• Low latency (<1 microsec) application messaging

• Dramatically shortening batch processes execution-time• Enabling real-time “Self service” business intelligence

and unconstrained data exploration

• Detecting correlations/patterns across million of events in“a blink of an eye”

• Supporting “Big Data” (Big Data needs Big Memory)• Running transactional and analytical applications on

the same physical dataset

SAP HANA in actionAccenture is already working with clientson a wide variety of HANA engagements, inindustries as diverse as utilities, telecoms,consumer goods, financial services and pharma.We are demonstrating the differentiating powerof HANA across areas including supply chain,HR, marketing, retail analytics, telematics,smart metering, insurance claims, public service,CRM and energy production.

Accenture’s clients are already starting to seesignificant business benefits from SAP HANA.Some examples include:

A leading aerospace business wasfocused on improving complexmanufacturing with real timeproduction information.They wanted to improve their manufacturingprocesses by increasing the visibility ofinformation relating to production operations.The highly complex nature of aerospace

manufacturing requires many metrics to beconstantly calculated. SAP HANA enabled thecompany to create assembly dashboards toprovide a near real-time view of productionprocesses on the shop floor. These provide fasterand more accurate status reports for productionmanagers and mechanics, enabling them tooptimize capacity planning and make fully-informed decisions that maximize the efficiency

of manufacturing schedules and assemblyoperations. With all the metrics available inone place and in near real-time, the companyhas achieved considerable business benefits.These include improved working capital throughlower work-in process inventory, reduced laborcosts through more accurate provisioning andlower requirement for over time and highermanufacturing throughput by reducing cycletimes, potentially leading to higher revenues.

More efficient, effective and fasterfinancial closeA leading global telecoms business, achievedthe largest IT transformation in its history.IT brought together a number of differentoperating businesses onto a single SAPplatform for HR, finance and supply chain,creating consistently high standards of businessprocesses and reporting. The company wantedto accelerate its financial month end close andimprove the speed and accuracy of financialreporting. By deploying SAP HANA on topof their existing SAP ERP it has achieved farhigher efficiency and effectiveness acrossits processes. With data transfer times now9000 times at the rate of the previous system,financial close can be achieved a whole dayearlier than before. By shor tening the cycle timeand increasing automation, decisions can bemade earlier in the monthly cycle and businessresources are freed up to work on more valueadding activities.

The different pathsto HANAOrganizations are taking different routes toimplementation and driving business valuefrom HANA. These range from the tactical,addressing a single business process in order tounderstand HANA’s potential at relatively lowrisk, through to a full-scale transformation ofend-to-end ERP systems on the HANA platformThe ability to tailor HANA to meet a specific

business goal, or to introduce its powerfulcapabilities to accelerate and improve a singlebusiness process means that organizations areable to adapt their own approach according totheir precise needs. There is no single right orwrong path to HANA adoption. It’s possible todrive several initiatives with specific businessgoals at the same time.

Accenture’s approach is flexible. We are workinwith clients on three main approaches. Thefirst, HANA Business Applications (HBA) brintogether Accenture’s assets implemented onSAP HANA technology to address a specificbusiness challenge. Packaged as a completesolution, i.e. hardware, software and services,HBA can be offered on premises or as a cloud-based solution. HBA offers a solution to aspecific business need, and each is created fora specific industry. Leveraging insights from thHANA Research Council, HBA offers a low-risimplementation that enables organizations togauge the power of HANA to achieve a specificbusiness goal.



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HBAHANA Business Applications

Solution As a Service(on/off premise)

High value rapidprocess improvement

Industry IP

SAP Technology

Joint Development w/SAP

Functional Expertise

Industry Expertise

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HBXHANA Business aXeleration

Next Generation ERPBusiness Transformation

SAP TechnologyHBT

HANA Business Transformation

Our second approach, HANA BusinessaXeleration (HBX) makes use of the HANAarchitecture to accelerate the performance ofone or more business processes. These are runin a separate system, offering an opportunityto harness the advantage of HANA withoutrequiring fundamental change to existingsystems. This can act as a means to build thebusiness case for a wider implementation, atminimal risk.

HANA Business Transformation (HBT) is the

third approach. It’s a full-scale move to BusinessSuite on HANA technology. It involves acomplete application and technology refresh andtransformation of existing business processes.It provides the opportunity to consolidate andrenovate existing SAP implementations offeringthe power of the platform broadly across thewhole enterprise. In addition, Accenture hasdeveloped industry specific templates (AccentureAdvanced Enterprise Systems) that can drive evenhigher performance in specific industry contexts.It is the most ambitious approach but as SAPcontinues to invest in HANA, it will become the

future platform for the entire SAP business suite.But as awareness of HANA develops over time, itwill generate the most traction and highest levelsof adoption.

HANA is the way of the future for SAP. But thefuture is happening now. Organizations arebeginning to explore how they can implementHANA and drive value across their organization.

Accenture sees a distinct adoption curvedeveloping (see figure below). Initially weexpect to see businesses making select useof HANA to improve one or more distinctbusiness processes (HBX). As the benefits ofthose implementations become increasinglyapparent, we envision a broader move to moretransformational adoption (HBT), with HANA

driving end-to-end business processes anddelivering high performance across enterprisefunctions. In parallel with this, we would alsoexpect to see the use of HANA deployed as adiscrete managed service (HBA), addressingparticular business challenges designedexpressly for specific industry contexts.

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AdoptionAdoption Curve



Contact usTo learn about the possibilities the SAP HANA

journey can do for your business, contact

Nicola [email protected]

or

Eric [email protected]

And visit one of our 11 Innovation Centersaround the world.

For more information about Accenture’scommitment to SAP HANA and the AccentureInnovation Centers for SAP, you can also visit:

http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/service-innovation-sap-analytics-summary.aspx

About AccentureAccenture is a global management consulting,technology services and outsourcing company,with approximately 261,000 people servingclients in more than 120 countries. Combiningunparalleled experience, comprehensivecapabilities across all industries and businessfunctions, and extensive research on theworld’s most successful companies, Accenture

collaborates with clients to help them becomehigh-performance businesses and governments.The company generated net revenues ofUS$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug.31, 2012. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

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Getting startedAccenture is extending its commitment to thisrevolutionary technology to our clients to helpthem get started. As a key SAP partner we’veinvested heavily in training our people in HANA.At our jointly funded and branded AccentureInnovation Centers for SAP we’re at the leadingedge of what SAP HANA can do.

At the Centers, clients are able to experiencethe power of SAP HANA first hand. AnInnovation Center Workshop is built around anindustry-specific business process, enablingany client to see how SAP HANA can help themaddress a specific business challenge to drivecompetitive advantage. Our leading solutionarchitects, technologists and developers areon-hand to demonstrate the innovation that isdriving the future of enterprise computing.

At the Innovation Centers for SAP we havedeveloped day in the life scenarios for:

• Utilities • Telecommunications • Consumer

Products • Chemicals • Mobility • High Tech• Human Capital Management • Social Media:HANA • Automotive • Oil & Gas Upstream• Mining • Retail • Customer Insight • Oil & GasDownstream • Public Service • Life Sciences• Defense • Banking: Retail • Banking: RiskManagement • Insurance • Procurement

In addition, we have HANA Industry and lineof business demo scenarios that cover:

• High Performance Manufacturing ProductionAnalytics

• Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

• Social Media Real-time Sentiment Analysis• Accenture Smart Commerce• Training Effectiveness • Smart Meter Analytics• High Performance Asset Analytics

Accenture works closely with SAP to ensure ourdevelopment matches the platform’s evolutionas it continues to advance and make incredibleperformance a reality for more and morebusinesses. Through our workshops, proofs ofconcept, pilots and demonstrations, clientscan experience the power of SAP HANA forthemselves. By seeing the art of the possible,our clients can start to plan their own journeysinto the future of enterprise computing.

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