staking a claim in the platform economy with sap
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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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