Accenture and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Help Companies Embed Sustainability into the Core of their Business
26 Gennaio 2021 - 12:45PM
Business Wire
Innovative technologies and services will
empower C-suite to accelerate progress toward ESG goals, meet new
customer and stakeholder expectations, drive growth
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) are expanding
their alliance to help companies embed sustainability into their
business, meet growing customer and stakeholder expectations, and
contribute to advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).
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Accenture and Salesforce are expanding
their partnership to help companies embed sustainability into the
core of their business.
The powerful combination of Accenture’s Sustainability Services,
Salesforce Sustainability Cloud, and Salesforce Customer 360 will,
for the first time, bring sustainability to the front office and
provide the C-suite with true visibility into their company’s
historical and real-time environmental, social and governance (ESG)
data. Companies will be able to track, measure and act on a range
of sustainability initiatives, including reporting on carbon usage,
supporting customer engagements, creating positive consumer
experiences, meeting regulatory requirements and developing new
business models.
“Our clients’ commitment to sustainability has never been
greater,” said Julie Sweet, chief executive officer at Accenture.
“As industries reimagine and rebuild from the pandemic, they have
the opportunity to embed sustainability by design to drive their
customer agenda. We are delighted to expand our partnership with
Salesforce to help organizations both create value and deliver on
their values.”
“Every CEO is recognizing their responsibilities don’t stop at
the edge of the corporate campus or Zoom,” said Marc Benioff, Chair
and CEO, Salesforce. “By integrating sustainability deep into the
fabric of our companies, our businesses will become more
successful, our communities more equal, our societies more just and
our planet healthier. We’re incredibly proud to be working with
Accenture to help customers more readily drive sustainability
programs that benefit all stakeholders and create business
value.”
Salesforce Sustainability Cloud, built on Salesforce Customer
360, will provide a trusted platform that gives customers a
360-degree view of their corporate environmental impact to help
them measure and manage their carbon footprint and transparently
report investor-grade climate data. Accenture will help integrate
Salesforce Sustainability Cloud into their business strategies,
operating models, technologies, and core processes and systems with
industry-specific requirements and develop sustainability insights
that can scale across organizations and their ecosystems. Later
this year, Accenture and Salesforce will be working together to
expand the platform and services to track and analyze broader ESG
metrics—from water and waste management to diversity &
inclusion.
“Climate change continues to be one of the most critical
challenges facing business and the broader planet,” said George
Oliver, CEO of Johnson Controls, the world-leader in smart, healthy
and sustainable buildings. “We are pleased to be working with
Salesforce and Accenture in accelerating sustainability activities
for JCI, for our customers and our communities, especially as
momentum for action continues to grow.”
Sustainability is now a business imperative, and consumers
increasingly expect business to play a leadership role in taking
tangible action on the SDGs, which include gender equality,
poverty, and climate change. The companies leveraging the
combination of sustainability and technology are 2.5x more likely
to be among tomorrow’s strongest-performing businesses than others,
according to new Accenture research.
“The partnership will allow Accenture and Salesforce to use
their joint forces to address the rapidly growing end-user demand
for data-based insights around sustainability performance and
metrics-driven approaches that help turn ESG topics into drivers
for positive business outcomes,” said Bjoern Stengel, senior
research analyst, Worldwide Business Consulting & ESG Business
Services at IDC. “Our research shows that more and more companies
realize that a sustainable business strategy means more than just
‘doing good’ – it means ‘doing well by doing good’. This initiative
can help customers on this journey by letting them capture relevant
ESG data as well as manage and measure performance against their
sustainability targets.”
Accenture and Salesforce both have significant relationships
with the World Economic Forum and long-term commitments to
advancing the SDGs, giving each company a deeper understanding of
how to simultaneously drive business growth and long-term
sustainable value for shareholders and stakeholders.
About Accenture Accenture is a global professional
services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and
security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills
across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting,
Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the
world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent
Operations centers. Our 514,000 people deliver on the promise of
technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more
than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value
and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners
and communities. Visit www.accenture.com.
About Salesforce Salesforce, the global CRM leader,
empowers companies of every size and industry to digitally
transform and create a 360° view of their customers. For more
information about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit:
www.salesforce.com.
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Hannah Unkefer Accenture 206-839-2172
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