Accenture: Accelerating Digital Advances Through Oracle Solutions

Julie Sweet, CEO - North America

The buzzword of the day is "Digital”. Infiltrating into various sectors, it is changing the way business is conducted regardless of a company's size. Digital technology can help Increase productivity significantly, according to new research commissioned by Konica Minolta. So, in order reap the benefits of the digital technologies, companies are striving hard to become digitally empowered in the dynamic environment. It is evident with the speeding pace of adopting digital technologies such as social media, mobility, big data and advanced analytics. But amongst all, Cloud has proven to be a significant aspect of this digital transformation. To help organizations in their journey to the cloud, Accenture and Oracle formed the Accenture Oracle Business Group (AOBG). It combines Oracle's broad set of cloud offerings with Accenture's deep industry, technology and delivery experience in a streamlined approach—to help our clients meet their digital transformation goals by moving to the cloud faster and with less risk. Whether you're looking for a rapid adoption, hybrid implementation, or a longer-term enterprise transformation program, the Accenture Oracle Business Group's suite of industry-based solutions and prebuilt accelerators, assets, and tools can help to quickly and predictably deploy digital solutions. Accenture is the first and only partner to have a joint digital business group of this kind with Oracle.

Keeping pace with digital disruptions, the Accenture Oracle Business Group helps organizations to become high-velocity enterprises. It delivers Oracle cloud solutions at every layer- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). While Saas and PaaS offerings were already a part of AOBG's solutions, IaaS has been added recently to its capabilities.

In addition to this, Accenture migration services factory for Oracle IaaS provides assets and accelerators to help clients migrate data and other applications to Oracle IaaS Cloud. It also has database performance lab for Oracle IaaS operated by the Accenture Enkitec Group solely focussing on database performance.

To simplify migration to the cloud and speed up the time to market, Accenture helps to build integrated digital networks to gain a competitive edge. The company is competent to provide strategy, implementation, upgrade and application outsourcing solutions across the entire Oracle suite of products. This suite includes Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Retail, Siebel and Oracle technology, and middleware. Through the Accenture Oracle Business Group, the company offers a portfolio of industry solutions combining Oracle's set of broad offerings.

In the past few years, Oracle has built and acquired leading middleware products like Java EE and developer tools, integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, and content management. Integrating the best of these products for a complete best-of-breed middleware portfolio of suites was called Oracle Fusion Middleware. But for organizations making the lead to the unified middleware stack like Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g can be a strenuous job. In this case, Accenture Foundation Platform for Oracle (AFPO) can help. "AFPO is a pre-built, tested reference application, common services framework and development accelerator for Oracle's Fusion Middleware 11g product suite that can contribute to reducing development time and cost by up to 30 percent,” explains Julie Sweet, CEO- North America, Accenture. With this platform, Accenture can deliver solutions either in stages or all at once as an on-site, hosted or cloud solution. Recently Accenture has added new digital capabilities to AFPO by launching its upgraded version. Through this latest version of AFPO, clients can deploy Oracle Fusion Middleware and associated Oracle products quickly and can reduce development costs and accelerate time to value.

Based on 23 years of collaboration with Oracle and 52,000 strong Oracle team, Accenture has proved itself to be the best systems integrator for Oracle technology globally. It is also the first Oracle alliance partner to reach Diamond status.

Through the Accenture Oracle Business Group, the company offers a portfolio of industry solutions combining Oracle's set of broad offerings

Since 2003, the company has been recognized by Oracle with 99 Oracle Partner Awards meeting demanding criteria which include customer satisfaction and customer references. Recently, Forrester Research recognized Accenture as a leader in the Oracle next-generation applications space. According to Forrester, Accenture is on the bleeding edge of business and technology change, and its Oracle practice exemplifies this enviable trait. Along with this, Accenture is a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Oracle Implementation Services 2016 Vendor Assessment. Adding to its excellence, the company has recently received six prestigious country-level Oracle Excellence Awards across Europe. It includes Specialized Partner of the Year in Engineered Systems, Cloud PaaS, Business Analytics, Systems Integrator, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and Cloud CX.

Obtaining Diamond-level status is a significant milestone for the company. It also recognizes its depth and breadth of skills across the entire Oracle product suite. To maintain the Diamond-level status, Accenture certifies in 83 specialization areas, including 18 advanced areas. Instead of being disrupted by technological developments, Accenture and Oracle are together working to equip and empower their people and enable them to reach new heights. Further, Accenture and Oracle will continue to innovate, disrupt and deliver for clients that seek to be winners in the digital revolution.