Accenture & Blue Prism Team to Provide Robotic Process Automation to Help Clients Accelerate Bus. Results, Improve Employee &...
January 05 2017 - 3:59AM
Business Wire
More than 40 organizations including Raiffeisen
Bank International and Circle K already signed
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and Blue Prism (AIM:PRSM), a leading
provider of enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) software,
are working together to provide RPA solutions to help organizations
across industries automate a wide range of business processes for
reduced costs, improved compliance and increased productivity. More
than 40 organizations have already selected Accenture and Blue
Prism to help achieve this, including international retailer Circle
K and Raiffeisen Bank International.
The alliance combines Accenture’s global reach and cross
industry expertise with Blue Prism’s RPA software robots to provide
the next generation of the “digital workforce.” As part of this,
Accenture plans to certify more than 600 professionals on Blue
Prism technology and implementation to provide critical advice and
guidance to companies navigating a complex automation
landscape.
Since its acquisition of Stat Oil stores, Circle K has been
working to unify its 120,000 employees across 12,000 global
locations under one brand and improve operations at its shared
services center. Having Accenture lead the implementation and
business analysis of Blue Prism’s RPA software has delivered
automation to standardize and improve Circle K’s customer service,
helping reduce processing times and make Circle K a more attractive
place to work.
“RPA has changed the way we structure and allocate work,
allowing us to focus on improvement initiatives,” said Kristian
Kjernsmo, managing director, Circle K Business Centre at Circle K
Europe. “By automating routine tasks, we allow our skilled
employees to focus on the more interesting and challenging parts of
their jobs, which has the dual benefit of satisfied employees and
improved customer experience. Accenture has been with us from the
beginning, helping us in the exploratory phases of RPA right
through to the implementation.”
As a multi-national European bank operating in 14 countries with
more than 40,000 employees, Raiffeisen Bank International worked
with Accenture to implement Blue Prism technology to automate
business processes in four countries with further roll out planned
in 2017.
“We had been considering RPA as a way to accelerate business
results, but we needed a solution that could be housed internally,
scale rapidly, and be up and running within two months,” said
Markus Stanek, head of Group Efficiency of Raiffeisen Bank
International. “Thanks to Accenture’s knowledge and Blue Prism’s
enterprise-class RPA software, we want to create an in-house
robotics Centre of Excellence within a very short time frame. We
have successfully piloted our RPA program in four countries to
date, and based on our early positive outcome, intend to continue
RPA roll-outs in 2017.“
“This relationship builds on Accenture’s history of helping
organizations capture new business value through automation and
complements our efforts to apply the technology quickly and at
scale to ensure benefits are realised early,” said Manish Sharma,
group operating officer, Accenture Operations. “The cost and
productivity benefits of RPA are enabling firms to operate smarter
and are offering the human workforce the opportunity to engage in
more stimulating and strategic work.”
Alastair Bathgate, CEO and co-founder of Blue Prism, commented,
“We are delighted to be working with Accenture to deliver the value
of a digital workforce to many different types of organizations
across the globe. With 40 firms already on board to benefit from
this alliance, we are seeing a clear appetite for RPA as firms
quickly realize the vast array of benefits to business performance
and productivity.”
“RPA has the potential to deliver significant benefits to
enterprises in terms of cost, efficiency and productivity,” said
Sarah Burnett, vice president, Everest Group. “For RPA technology
vendors, collaboration with service providers and system
integrators is a powerful way to meet growing client demand for RPA
technology across continents and industry verticals.”
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
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.
About Blue Prism
Blue Prism Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software delivers
the world’s most successful digital workforce, which has executed
over 1 billion transactions in our customers’ datacenters. Blue
Prism (AIM:PRSM) is trusted by a diverse range of highly
successful organizations to operate in some of the most demanding
administrative environments. Blue Prism’s RPA software delivers a
digital workforce for the enterprise to eliminate high-risk,
manual, rules-based, repetitive tasks and execute business
processes at scale to improve organizational efficiency and
effectiveness whilst radically reducing operating costs. Blue Prism
provides a scalable and robust execution platform for best of
breed AI and cognitive technologies and has emerged as the trusted
and proven RPA platform for the digital enterprise. Customers
include BNY Mellon, Commerzbank, Nordea, ING, Westpac,
Zurich, Aegon, Maersk, Siemens, IBM, Procter & Gamble, and
Nokia. With offices in Manchester, London, Miami, Chicago, New York
and San Francisco, Blue Prism is listed on the London Stock
Exchange AIM market. For more information visit www.blueprism.com
and follow the company on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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