Accenture Receives Regional Awards from SAP for Outstanding Performance

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) was recently presented with three SAP® Regional Partner Excellence Awards in various categories. Recipients of this year’s awards have made outstanding contributions that help grow the global market for SAP solutions.

The awards were given by SAP to the top-performing SAP partners for their efforts – in collaboration with SAP – in helping clients adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and run more simply with SAP solutions. Accenture won the following awards:

• SAP North America Partner Excellence Award 2015 for Industry Services
• SAP Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) Award 2015 for Partner of the Year
• SAP Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) Award 2015 for Cloud Services

Accenture was also presented with the following awards for outstanding performance as a strategic SAP services partner in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region:

• EMEA SAP Services Partner of the Year for SAP HANA
• EMEA SAP Services Partner of the Year for Strategic Industry – FSI
• EMEA SAP Services Partner of the Year for Strategic Industry – Retail

“We are proud to receive these awards from SAP and will continue to collaborate with SAP, building high-quality solutions that deliver real business value,” said Christophe Mouille, global managing director of SAP business for Accenture. “Innovations such as the Accenture and SAP Business Solutions Group combine SAP’s robust technologies with Accenture’s leading market and industry knowledge in order to help clients take advantage of digital solutions and maximize value from their investments in SAP solutions.”

“With our outstanding ecosystem, SAP is helping customers run better, faster and simpler,” said Anthony McMahon, senior vice president, Global Partner Operations, SAP APJ. “Partners extend our ability to bring SAP innovations to more clients and add their own proven solutions to serve our customers. We congratulate Accenture as one of our top-performing partners of the year. Together, we are helping clients transform their business and delivering the innovation that fuels revenue and growth.”

Accenture, whose relationship with SAP spans more than 30 years, has more than 40,000 SAP practitioners who combine industry knowledge, technical know-how and unsurpassed delivery capabilities to help clients leverage SAP solutions in areas such as analytics, cloud, and mobility, to deliver value and innovation.

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