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

Developers

Publishers

Content

owners

Retail

Services

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’

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 organisation’s specific business imperatives

Create a tailored digital transformation strategy

and roadmap

Accenture and SAP are helping organisations 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 organisations stake a claim in the platform economy and capture new digital value go to:

www.accenture.com/techvisionsap

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