Staking a claim in the platform economyAccenture and SAP

Accenture Technology Vision 2016

Accenture’s 2016 Technology Vision identifies the platform economy as a major source of growth and disruption. Digital platforms drive collaboration, share information, create new value—across traditional industry borders. Accenture and SAP are combining forces to help companies thrive in the platform economy.

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Platforms are the foundation for value creation in the digital economy

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Platform-driven business models

Traditional value chain business models

Value creation is two-way and continuous

Value creation is linear and one-way

Platform-driven business models

DevelopersPublishersContent ownersRetailServices

Platform EcosystemProduction Distribution Marketing Consumer

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Building a platform strategy

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Not every business needs to build its own platform…

but they must develop a platform strategy…

to drive growth by developing or participating in new ecosystems…

and/or defend profitability from platform-driven competition…

and develop the business know-how to participate in and exploit platform opportunities

How?

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Agile development approaches

Digital technologies

Cloud foundation

Rotate to the ‘New’ by adopting:

…to become a high velocity enterprise, enabling the real-time world and new digital opportunities to operate directly with core systems.

SAP’s evolution to hyper-scale public, private and hyper cloud supports the journey to the platform economy…

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with Accenture and SAP working together to drive the technologies, industry and business strategies that will bring the platform economy to life…

with everything-as-a-service capabilities dialing up and down quickly…

rapid and responsive reconfiguration of suppliers, customers, peers and connected assets…

shifting the focus from ‘running the business’ to ‘winning in the market’

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To rotate to the ‘New’ and become a high velocity enterprise, winning in the platform economy, you need to:

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Develop a perspective and analysis of the digital transformation disrupting

your industry

Identify the areas of greatest value in your industry

and align them to your organization’s specific business imperatives

Create a tailored digital transformation strategy

and roadmap

Accenture and SAP are helping organizations participate in the platform economy and to capture new value at speed by:

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building on their investments in enterprise assets

embracing innovative digital services

plotting their transformation journey guided by Accenture’s digital roadmaps

using SAP and ecosystem technologies and solutions such as SAP S/4HANA, HANA Cloud Platform, IoT, big data, and analytics

co-developing new industry solutions that open out the possibilities of the platform economy for every sector

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To find out more about how Accenture and SAP can help organizations stake a claim in the platform economy and capture new digital value go to:

www.accenture.com/techvisionsap

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