accenture has announced it will be working sidebyside with sap to help companies change their business operations with industryspecific solutions based on saps industry cloud built on the sap cloud platform and integrated with saps intelligent suite and sap business network these applications are aimed to help companies innovate with new capabilities in the cloud while reducing operating costs improving productivity and unlocking new opportunities for growthaccenture and sap have a long successful history of investing in innovation and codevelopment to help our clients realize new business capabilities sharing our industry and technology expertise accenture can help clients drive change by delivering on the promise of the intelligent enterprise powered by sap working together we are doubling down to drive the next wave of industry cloud solutions including for the utilities retail and consumer goods and oil and gas industries said caspar borggreve global lead for the accenture sap business groupaccenture has already collaborated with sap on cloud solutions for the utilities industry the two companies are working on additional industry cloud solutions for the retail and consumer products industries the accenture liquid studio for sap has also developed more than 170 apps to date that extend the functionality of saps intelligent suite and enable new business capabilities using technologies such as analytics artificial intelligence blockchain the internet of things and machine learning all on sap cloud platform as per a release accenture claims that these capabilities help companies harmonize sap technologies applications and capabilities in a single integrated platform to amplify business results the myconcerto platform is currently in use with more than 500 companies across 29 industriesdisruption is everywhere and fastpaced industry innovation is essential for our customers with largescale enterprise systems to keep ahead of the competition said peter maier president sap industries and customer advisory saps industry cloud is an open yet integrated innovation space to extend the endtoend processes of the intelligent suite and the sap business network with next business practices and innovation at the vertical edge our partner accenture has the experience and knowledge to jointly build solutions that make a difference for our customers core business