Accenture has announced plans with SAP AG to deliver joint new offerings to help oil and gas companies improve and standardise processes, replace legacy tools, provide a single view of production across the organisation, minimise uncertainty and improve the management of production. These new offerings are based on the SAP HANA platform and are called ‘Upstream Production Operations’.
“Building on our existing success with SAP, these new upstream production operations solutions are designed to fill a significant void in today’s upstream market,” said Jean-Marc Ollagnier, group chief executive of Accenture’s Resources operating group. “Our goal is to help our clients focus on improving their operations from the initial phase of production to the point of sales by optimising energy companies’ investment in upstream assets.”
‘Upstream Production Operations by Accenture and SAP’ will consist of solutions, services and training for energy companies’ production operations. As part of the programme, Accenture and SAP will provide an end-to-end solution – from the well head to the invoice –which will include key processes such as production forecasting, field data capture, production accounting and deferment management. Using SAP’s software platform as the backbone, Accenture will provide consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services.
“Combining Accenture’s significant domain expertise in operations with SAP’s innovative IT solutions will create a variety of new upstream go-to-market offerings that don’t exist in the industry today. We believe this will change the game in helping our customers meet their production goals,” said Chakib Bouhdary, executive vice president, Industry Solutions, SAP.
‘Upstream Production Operations by Accenture and SAP’ will run on the SAP HANA platform, and is designed to provide oil and gas companies with integrated views of high volumes of complex data in real-time. It is the next in a range of industry and functional solutions by Accenture and SAP running on the SAP HANA platform. Just recently, both companies have launched a marketing performance solution on SAP HANA for Chief Marketing Officers.
