Accenture, SAP Announce Creation Of New Business Solutions Group

(RTTNews) - Accenture (ACN) and SAP AG (SAP) Monday announced the creation of a new business group focused on accelerating the time taken to jointly develop and deliver new industry-specific solutions based on cloud and other digital technologies.

The Accenture and SAP Business Solutions Group brings together the companies' respective co-innovation, joint solution development and go-to-market teams to focus on increasing time to value for clients globally.

The group helps facilitate Accenture's intellectual property and industry expertise with innovative solutions that are powered by the SAP HANA Cloud Platform to more rapidly enable customers to harness the benefits of digital technologies including cloud, analytics and enterprise mobility.

The objective is to significantly expedite the joint-solution development process to help allow the two companies to quickly bring breakthrough solutions to market across a range of industry sectors, with an initial focus on retail and consumer goods, automotive, energy and utilities.