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System Migration

To continue to extend its cutting-edge solution and service offerings, Accenture needed to enhance its infrastructure and unify operations to support more simplified and accelerated digital transformation for current and future customers. The company chose RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure as a comprehensive solution to enhance security, interoperability, and innovation and to simplify infrastructure management. By using RISE with SAP on Azure, Accenture strengthened its infrastructure and improved integration of financial data, reporting capabilities, and transaction processing across multiple lines of business and regions—all of which is critical for regulatory compliance and operational re

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Reported impact

Business outcome

The application provides advanced advisory capabilities, optimizes financial planning, and enhances predictive analytics for customers. Financial advisor uses SAP AI core and large language models to deliver untapped financial value in financial ledgers and transactions. It’s helping Accenture business and finance leaders reduce decision-making time by 15%, reduce financial narrative efforts by 60%, and mitigate risks with real-time financial data insights, including 13,000-plus user alerts per month.

  • Compliance
  • Customer Experience
  • Risk Reduction

Solution

To continue to extend its cutting-edge solution and service offerings, Accenture needed to enhance its infrastructure and unify operations to support more simplified and accelerated digital transformation for current and future customers. The company chose RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure as a comprehensive solution to enhance security, interoperability, and innovation and to simplify infrastructure management. By using RISE with SAP on Azure, Accenture strengthened its infrastructure and improved integration of financial data, reporting capabilities, and transaction processing across multiple lines of business and regions—all of which is critical for regulatory compliance and operational resilience.

Data flow

Legacy applications and data are moved from on-premises environments into Azure-hosted services, where the new platform standardizes processing, integrates reporting, and serves users with more scalable cloud operations.

Solution architecture

3 components · 2 layers
  1. Compute
    • Azure Provides the scalable cloud foundation hosting the organization’s applications, data, and integrations.
  2. Serving
    • Power BI Delivers dashboards, reports, and self-service analytics to business users.
    • SAP on Azure Runs the organization’s SAP estate on Azure as the modernized core ERP platform.

Architecture clues

  • Azure: Provides the scalable cloud foundation hosting the organization’s applications, data, and integrations.
  • Integrates with SAP.
  • Power BI: Delivers dashboards, reports, and self-service analytics to business users.
  • SAP on Azure: Runs the organization’s SAP estate on Azure as the modernized core ERP platform.

Evidence from the source

Anand Raval, Director of SAP Digital Transformation at Accenture, says, “We’re constantly innovating, because what’s true today wasn’t true yesterday and it won’t be true tomorrow.” To continue to extend its cutting-edge solution and service offerings to customers, Accenture needed a transformation of its own—one that would continue to build on client trust and win new business. “We wanted to enhance our infrastructure and unify operations to support more simplified and accelerated transformatio
As one of the world’s largest professional services companies, Accenture helps its customers transform every part of their business by bringing together all applications, services, and data in the cloud to create a strong digital core. With this foundation, all business areas can be unified through automated, intelligent processes that also integrate customers and partners into the value chain.
The application provides advanced advisory capabilities, optimizes financial planning, and enhances predictive analytics for customers. Financial advisor uses SAP AI core and large language models to deliver untapped financial value in financial ledgers and transactions. It’s helping Accenture business and finance leaders reduce decision-making time by 15%, reduce financial narrative efforts by 60%, and mitigate risks with real-time financial data insights, including 13,000-plus user alerts per
To continue to extend its cutting-edge solution and service offerings, Accenture needed to enhance its infrastructure and unify operations to support more simplified and accelerated digital transformation for current and future customers. The company chose RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure as a comprehensive solution to enhance security, interoperability, and innovation and to simplify infrastructure management.
To continue to extend its cutting-edge solution and service offerings, Accenture needed to enhance its infrastructure and unify operations to support more simplified and accelerated digital transformation for current and future customers. The company chose RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure as a comprehensive solution to enhance security, interoperability, and innovation and to simplify infrastructure management. By using RISE with SAP on Azure, Accenture strengthened its infrastructure and improv
Transparency Evidence & methodology 75/100 reference value · 87% confidence · 1 source

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value75/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth25/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact0/25
    0 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence87%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity8/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Microsoft

    Accenture customer story

    First-party
    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/1786976982328092426-accenture-azure-professional-services-en-united-states
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Jul 9, 2024
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    • Business problem
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Date evidence

  • Published on source page Jul 9, 2024 · Microsoft · First-party
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Not separately sourced Industry, Region, Company size. Treat these normalized attributes as lower-confidence until a dedicated source is added.

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