This will navigate you to Accenture.com Sign In page. Current Country: USA CASE STUDY How Accenture Does IT Transforming the employee experience with Teams Accenture uses Microsoft Teams to modernize and augment its digital workforce in changing times. Call for Change When Tech Meets Human Ingenuity A Valuable Difference Meet the Team Related Capabilities Call for change Accelerate the art of collaboration In a constantly changing landscape, teamwork has never been more important. Accenture is empowering its more than 620,000+ digital workforce by not only bringing the data, insights and services to where our people work, but also putting the tools in their hands to live a truly cloud-native life. To make this happen, we have undertaken a digital worker journey that involves foundational technology, productivity and collaboration. In particular, we have improved collaboration and productivity company-wide, using tools such as Microsoft Office 365, Windows 10 and OneDrive for Business. Now, we are making the best use of Microsoft Teams’ versatility to bring together technology and human ingenuity and make our business more agile. Using Microsoft Teams, Accenture people can communicate, collaborate and interact effectively wherever and whenever and take advantage of a secure, next-generation approach that helps them to enjoy an elastic, digital workplace. Accenture investments in digital technologies, infrastructure and a collaborative culture have positioned us well to manage the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, our earlier move to scalable public cloud has meant that we could move swiftly to remote working and take advantage of the versatile Teams capabilities. "Teams was the critical piece of our response to COVID-19. It was by far the most important way to maintain continuity with our clients and with our people, period." — STUART BROWN, Managing Director – Microsoft Business Group, Accenture SHARE When tech meets human ingenuity Redefining how we work together Microsoft Teams is a chat-centered collaboration platform that brings together collections of people, content and tools to get things done. While Microsoft Teams was still in the concept stage, Accenture collaborated with Microsoft on the early technical preview, providing input on the types of use cases relevant in a large, multinational organization and what was needed for resilient scale and security. Accenture also participated in the product pilot, along with other customers and partners, to keep pace with changing demands and push the envelope with Microsoft on Teams’ capabilities. As a company highly tuned to change, Accenture’s approach was to use Teams while continuing to work with Microsoft to adapt the product and prepare migration steps. Accenture people were being empowered—and encouraged—to use Teams if they desired, with caution expressed around the newness of the tool and a clear indication that our company-wide adoption was still pending. When Accenture deployed Teams, we did so in stages to transition from organic growth to large-scale access and adoption. Yet, the adoption of Teams was made easier given that Teams is woven into the Microsoft Office 365 fabric and brought a familiar platform into Accenture’s workplace. Today, all Accenture employees have transitioned to Teams and, accelerated by the move to remote working due to COVID-19, we have seen a massive increase in its usage—a 257% increase in audio usage and a 642% increase in video usage immediately following the pandemic. Changing minds, accelerating adoption READ MORE Alongside a rigorous change and adoption program that uses multiple mediums and channels, we engaged leadership ambassadors, Teams champions and key stakeholder groups from the outset. A 24/7 Operations team helps to meet Accenture’s needs when it comes to Teams support, along with monitoring of key network devices and local office capacity using standard tools. Reporting consists of a combination of Microsoft-provided data with Accenture organization data, which enables us to custom slice the data. New reporting enables us to support Teams from the Accenture office perspective to the end-user device level. An emphasis on the Accenture office quality helps us to focus on sites and devices that are at the root of any issues. Microsoft Teams Rapid Resource Center READ MORE During the testing times of the global pandemic, Teams has positioned our organization to achieve the kind of frictionless collaboration that elevates our productivity and efficiency to new levels. As one Accenture professional said in a recent survey: "It's my favorite tool, brings everything I need to be productive in one place... I have transformed the way my team works now." Redefining how we work together Microsoft Teams allows us to collaborate, create, and share with colleagues, partners, vendors, and most importantly, our clients. See more. View Transcript A valuable difference To modernity—and beyond Our progress with Teams has been accelerated by our strong relationship with Microsoft. Today, Accenture is the largest enterprise user of Teams. And we’ve worked together with Microsoft to create a Teams Resource Center to share leading practices. Our rapid transition to Teams is reflected in the scale of use: 680K active users in Teams 413K active teams 515M chat messages per month 1.6B minutes of audio per month 118M minutes of video conferences each month 79M mobile minutes per month Teams as-a-platform Using Teams as-a-platform brings together all of the tools, content, and processes into a single location to enable a new way of working. Teams provides an app store with a variety of available Microsoft and third-party solutions, as well as an extensible framework to support custom app development and new low- and no-code solutions through Microsoft’s Power Platform. We can introduce new capabilities, automation and business processes to suit our business needs—all without having to leave Teams. We’re also introducing extra services, such as using bots to answer people’s queries more quickly, and integrating apps to bring the content, tools, and processes into a digital cockpit where work gets done. So far, we have enabled more than 60 Teams-based apps, such as CALM (CAL + Machine), a custom app embedded in Teams that is specifically targeted at delivering in-context insights, such as financial filings or Twitter news, to our Client Account Leads (CALs). Teams is also bringing value in a broader context, transforming and enhancing the relationships with our clients and between our own people, partners and vendors: Drives inclusivity: Facilitating deep connections and engaging partnerships demands a collaboration tool that’s woven into the productivity fabric. Unlike the social dynamics of face-to-face meetings, online meetings are a level playing field in terms of people weighing in on a big idea and can bring better solutions to our clients. Frictionless collaboration: Teams makes it easier for everyone at Accenture to collaborate. Teams enables clients to join meetings, chat, share and co-author files, dissolving the barriers between them and Accenture teams to enjoy the “holy grail” of collaboration. Video enables people to be themselves, humanizing client conversations and introducing expertise from anywhere in the world at the click of a button. Consistent meeting experiences: The Teams Rooms functionality gives Accenture offices video conferencing and collaboration devices in meeting spaces with a familiar Teams user experience. We also implemented a solution to use Teams to schedule all video device meetings, no matter the device type. More than 700 Microsoft Surface Hubs are being used as a favorite device for brainstorming in the company’s innovation hubs. A proximity join feature that enables people to start a meeting without having to touch any Teams devices in the room can help the transition back to the office and further enable the digital worker with a greater sense of safety. By modernizing our way of working using Teams, we can not only bring the data, insights and services to where our people work, but also put the tools in their hands to live a truly cloud native life. Teams provides a new generation of technology for communicating, chatting, file sharing and conferencing that adds value to our day-to-day: Real-time collaboration New, enhanced collaboration features include persistent chat, threaded conversations, file storage, instant messaging, audio, video and sharing. Rich meeting experience Teams supports ad hoc and scheduled meetings, guest access, federation, dial-in conferencing and PSTN calls. Cloud first The combination of Microsoft Teams, Office 365, SharePoint and OneDrive for Business supports Accenture’s “cloud first” model of working. As-a-service Collaboration-as-a-service model helps Accenture deliver new features to our people, fast—they no longer have to wait for the latest release of Office or Skype. Mobile connectivity The user experience for meetings, video and voice calls flows seamlessly from laptop to the Teams mobile app. Enhanced security Security and compliance are enterprise grade and include multifactor authentication and continuous data encryption. Fixes are deployed as discovered, making sure Accenture is always up to date. Contextual work Teams offers stickers, emojis, GIFs, @mentions and private-channel messages. AI-driven support experience Employee support requests can be handled via ServiceNow integration and customer insights are available through Salesforce integration. Apps and starter kits have been published for our new Human Capital Management platform, Workday. Listen to podcasts Hear conversations with our IT leaders about how our use of Microsoft Teams at Accenture is enhancing our employee experience. How Accenture Does IT Enabling the elastic digital workplace Whether remote working or returning to the office, the pandemic has put pressure on maintaining business continuity in organizations around the world. LISTEN How Accenture Does IT Making remote work happen for the digital worker Digital workers are in demand. Helping people to work remotely, connect and continue to collaborate and create needs the right tools and behaviors. LISTEN How Accenture Does IT Adopting a successful digital worker culture Actively supporting 500,000 people to adopt digital worker behaviors means using technologies that enable productivity and collaboration in new ways. LISTEN How Accenture Does IT Running modern meetings with Microsoft Team Enjoy a completely different way of working that inspires online collaborations, document sharing and a dialogue channel for unified communications. LISTEN How Accenture Does IT Next-generation collaboration with Microsoft Teams Discover a great way to keep all your information in one place, take advantage of conferencing and broadcast capabilities and create a digital cockpit. LISTEN Blogs about Microsoft Teams at Accenture VIEW MORE POSTS Read more about how the versatile scope and scale of Microsoft Teams can help people better handle dynamic change. How Accenture Does IT How Accenture enables effective remote working Accenture shares the experiences and insights on supporting clients and our 500k people while working remotely. READ MORE How Accenture Does IT Microsoft Teams is igniting a communications revolution Teams enables Accenture’s 500k users to work remotely effectively and efficiently, supporting millions of audio and videoconferencing minutes monthly. READ MORE How Accenture Does IT How to get more from Teams to give more at work Accenture's Karen Odegaard shares how we're using Teams to bring the data, insights and services to people to live a... READ MORE Meet the team filter result Karen Odegaard Managing Director – Global IT, Digital Worker Technology LinkedIn Jason Warnke Senior Managing Director – Global IT, Digital Experiences Lead LinkedIn Grant Gengelbach Director – Global IT, Productivity Technology LinkedIn Bill Schulz Senior Manager – Global IT, Productivity Technology LinkedIn Related capabilities How Accenture does IT Our global IT organization is driving technology-powered business transformation... Accenture + Microsoft The Accenture Microsoft Business Group—powered by Avanade—empowers... Stay in the know with our newsletter SUBSCRIBE ABOUT US CONTACT US CAREERS LOCATIONS Privacy Statement Terms & Conditions Cookie Policy Accessibility Statement Sitemap Do Not Sell My Personal Information (for CA) © 2021 Accenture. 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