Siemens and Accenture
Background
Recent performance data indicates that bringing a drug to the market can cost over $800 million and take between 12 and 14 years. Half of this time and more than 60% of the cost is spent in clinical development conducting lengthy clinical trials. Similarly, advisors at financial services firms face time, product expertise and communication constraints.
Siemens Enterprise Communications and Accenture joined up in 2005 to empower customers, like clinical trial team members and financial advisors, to collaborate in real-time and enhance their performance and productivity. The two companies brought together their knowledge and experience to solve communication challenges, improve business processes, and create tangible business outcomes in terms of faster time-to-market, increased revenues, increased profits and higher client satisfaction.
Teaming Up
Siemens and Accenture share the common vision of delivering industry solutions through a formal alliance that includes: go-to-market efforts, joint development, marketing and sales of the OpenScape solution based on the HiPath communications portfolio. OpenScape is a single, converged solution that enables real-time collaboration, optimizes teamwork, and speeds up internal decision-making. Our industry offerings integrate seamlessly into your current infrastructure and support key business processes and critical applications.
Opening new doors
Accenture provides distinctive capabilities in consulting and industry experience plus proven market focus and position to help clients become high performing business and governments, while Siemens contributes OpenScape knowledge and its solutions portfolio. The alliance relationship offers a unique bundle of solutions around the Siemens HiPath product portfolio. These industry solutions deliver increased ROI and enhanced results for our customers. The alliance also provides a joint sales and marketing go-to-market framework that leverages respective strengths and routes to market of both firms.
The 'Siemens and Accenture' Edge
HiPath OpenScape seamlessly integrates with key business applications used by Pharmaceutical and Financial Services firms, such as Clinical Trial Management Systems and CRM applications. Our industry accelerators provide a unified, presence-based communication platform that enables integrated calling, conferencing, document-sharing and messaging, and new product training, regardless of device or location.
As a result of our industry accelerators, Pharmaceutical companies can increase time to market for new drugs resulting in millions of dollars of potential savings and cost reductions. Financial Services firms can improve cross- and up-selling, increase client satisfaction and improve collaboration and customer retention rates to drive enhanced results.
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