Accenture Signs Global Agreement with SAP to Offer Human Capital Management “as a Service” on SAP® Cloud Platform
March 06 2017 - 7:59AM
Business Wire
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) today announced that it has signed a global
original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with SAP SE (NYSE:
SAP) to offer its human capital management (HCM) applications on
SAP® Cloud Platform. The OEM agreement allows organizations to
easily access leading Accenture HCM applications that are
purpose-built for the SAP SuccessFactors® Employee Central solution
and powered by SAP Cloud Platform.
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Accenture's HCM solutions help companies
adopt a more strategic approach to human resources, using SAP Cloud
Platform to deliver complex global transformation and talent
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Accenture’s HCM solutions are now also available as Software as
a Service (SaaS) subscriptions that include SAP Cloud Platform,
allowing organizations to easily scale up or down depending on
business needs. Organizations can take advantage of a single
subscription-based agreement and benefit from premium Accenture
services for upgrades, administration and broad functionality
without the need to develop platform expertise.
SAP Cloud Platform is SAP’s enterprise Platform as a Service
with comprehensive application development services and
capabilities. It empowers businesses to extend, integrate and build
new enterprise-ready, cloud-based applications – all without the
requirements of maintaining or investing in on-premises
infrastructure.
Accenture HCM applications for SAP SuccessFactors solutions
include:
- Accenture Clone and Test for Cloud,
which gives reliable, meaningful and authentic HR test data for
companies by providing a secure environment for the copying and
testing of data. A new module, the Accenture HR Data Loader,
enabling easy mass changes in SAP SuccessFactors solution data. It
is designed to manage ongoing and recurring HR processes, such as
promotions, new hires or terminations.
- Accenture HR Audit and Compliance
as-a-service, designed to help HR and IT departments enhance HR
systems by enabling them to maintain personnel data at a
consistently high quality in cloud deployments.
- Accenture Document Composer, which
complements and extends the capabilities of document generation,
updates and management across many SAP SuccessFactors
solutions.
“With these new streamlined offerings, clients benefit from an
end-to-end service without the complexities of maintaining
relationships with two different suppliers,” said Mike Detwiler,
senior managing director, Accenture Products and Platforms. "Our
solutions help clients reduce timelines, simplify upgrades and
reduce costs associated with implementations of SAP SuccessFactors
solutions. By bundling these solutions with SAP Cloud Platform, we
are increasing the flexibility and scalability of SAP
SuccessFactors solutions.”
“This offering from Accenture illustrates our belief in the
‘power of many’,” said Mike Ettling, president of SAP
SuccessFactors. “We want our partners focused on making our
customers more successful by introducing options that help ease and
speed the move to the cloud. Accenture continues to deliver on this
joint goal.”
Used by more than 1,800 companies in over 45 countries,
Accenture Human Capital Management Software is a suite of software
complementary to SAP software for human resources and payroll that
helps reduce implementation timelines, simplify upgrades, reduce
operational costs and enable even higher performance in SAP
solution environments. Accenture’s Human Capital Management
Software for SAP solutions helps companies adopt a strategic
approach to human resources by delivering global transformation and
talent management solutions based on SAP software, refocusing the
HR function from transactional to strategic programs that deliver
critical capabilities for business success.
About Accenture
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experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 394,000
people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
at www.accenture.com.
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