San Francisco Selects Accenture to Implement New Financial Management System
October 07 2015 - 7:03AM
Business Wire
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has been selected following a competitive
procurement process to implement a new financial management system
for the City and County of San Francisco.
The goals of the new system include increasing the efficiency of
financial-management operations, supporting more effective
strategic decision-making, enabling improved services for citizens
and businesses, and facilitating open and transparent City and
County government operations. The system will be built on the
customized Accenture Enterprise Services for Government platform,
including Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financial Management software and
Business Intelligence software.
The initiative – for which Accenture will serve as systems
integrator and help San Francisco develop global best practices in
financial management – aligns with the City and County’s goals of
strengthening their long-term financial health and fostering
investment and innovation.
“Strong financial management capabilities and practices are
critically important to help a world-class city like San Francisco
continue to thrive and prosper,” said Jens Egerland, who leads
Accenture’s public-sector work in California. “We will bring
multi-disciplinary capabilities – including our global cities
practice and functional expertise in financial management,
procurement systems and change management – to help San Francisco
modernize its financial management tools and structure.”
Accenture is among the leading global companies working in the
United States and internationally to help national, state and local
government organizations deploy and upgrade enterprise resource
planning (ERP) systems and best-in-class business
capabilities. Digital technology advances are increasingly
supporting the seamless automation of routine functional tasks,
liberating finance professionals to focus on creating
organizational value. Accenture’s approach to a creating a high
velocity finance organization using services, including the AESG
solution, is geared towards implementation of financial management
systems at lower cost and greater speed in order to enable new
strategic value.
Learn more about Accenture and Delivering Public Service for the
Future.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology
services and outsourcing company, with more than 358,000 people
serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled
experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and
business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most
successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help
them become high-performance businesses and governments. The
company generated net revenues of US$31.0 billion for the fiscal
year ended Aug. 31, 2015. Its home page is
www.accenture.com.
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