Steve Convey, SAP | SAP SapphireNow 2016
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 2016-05-19

01. Steve ConveySAPvisits #theCUBE!. (00:16)
02. Accenture SAP Business Solutions. (00:54)
03. How Enterprise is Going Digital. (01:60)
04. Hana Cloud Platform and the Enterprise. (04:03)
05. The Shelf Life of Intellectual Property. (05:45)
06. The Collaboration Space. (07:58)
07. The SAP Cloud Business. (09:50)
08. The Future of Industry Orientation. (12:26)
09. IOT: Artifical Intelligence and Image & Pattern Recognition. (14:30)
10. Plans or Events in the Future for the Accenture/SAP Group. (17:31)

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Handling digital disruption: AI and Internet of Things | #SAPPHIRENOW

by Gabriel Pesek | May 192016

As the SAP Sapphire conference continued to gain steamviewpoints from companies that have existing relationships with SAPas well as those from newcomersmingled and influenced each otherinforming each.

Steve Conveymanaging director at AccentureInc.joined John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris)cohosts of theCUBEfrom the SiliconANGLE Media teamto talk about ways his company is engaging with its customersthe joint ventures between Accenture and SAP and what customers want to keep them competitive.

Working together

Early in the interviewConvey expanded on the Accenture-SAP relationship. “The Accenture and SAP Business Solutions Group is a venture … all about doing codevelopment of business applicationsspecifically for industry use-cases” he said. “So the idea here is that leveraging the power of all of the technology that SAP haswith HANA and their IoT platformand all the great industry knowledge that Accenture hasidentify those things that are gonna make the biggest impact in the industryand then do codevelopmentdesignbuildtake it to marketand implement it for our clients.”

Convey clarified that while “it’s not a separate business entity” the two companies did work very closely together on this effortwith “separate divisions within both of our organizations that focus entirely on this subject.”

Listening to customers

Convey also emphasized how customer expectations and desires were influencing Accenture’s business goals. “What our clients are telling us is that they have their large ERP systemsthey’re looking for the roadmap to move to the cloud … to move to digitalso every organization’s trying to become a digital organizationfor lots of different reasons” he said. “Leveraging memory databasesdoing advanced analyticstrying to improve the customer experience; what they recognize is they’ve got to be multi-velocity in the way that they build applications.”

Convey continued: “What I think our clients are telling us is that there’s a hybrid model that they want to use to implement technology; they want to have their own expertise in housebut if they’re not in a position to be able to acquire talent that quicklythey want to be able to leverage organizations like Accenture to be an arm of development for them” he added.

Moving forward quickly

The later part of the interview touched on Accenture’s plans for the future and what technologies they expect to see causing major disruption in that time. “There’s two disruptive pieces of technology or trends that I think a lot of companies are grappling with and trying to figure out ‘what the heck do I do with this?’. One of them is artificial intelligencethe other has to do with image and pattern recognition. And all of this is effectively in IoT.”

Convey laid out his assessment of how intellectual property is edging toward shorter and shorter “shelf life” with a freshness duration of approximately 18 months open to companies to implement their new ideas before copycats spring up and start devaluing its presence in the market.

“I think the trick isif we’ve got some great idea that’s going to create industry differentiation for youyou can’t take two years to get it into the marketplaceyou’ve got to have development cycles that are measured in weeksnot in months or years” he said. “For Accentureindustry is everything.”

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