Project 8 Helps Address Future Human Needs with Support from Accenture and Salesforce
18 Noviembre 2019 - 8:59PM
Business Wire
Accenture recognized with Salesforce Partner
Innovation Award
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has helped The Demand Institute, a
nonprofit run jointly by The Conference Board and Nielsen, develop
a global data collaboration platform, called Project 8. It serves
as a marketplace for information and ideas aimed at better
predicting and planning for future human needs such as food, water,
and energy as populations continue to grow and become more
urban.
Created as a private and public sector collaboration with
support from the UN Foundation and designed to support all 17
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Project 8 was built
on Salesforce Community Cloud, and powered by Einstein Analytics.
The platform provides an online community for global organizations
to work together on human needs modelling. It provides an intuitive
interface that helps enable participants to ask experts questions,
discuss findings, access visualization tools, and collaborate on
important topics — from food security, to the future of
agriculture.
Project 8 supports more than 100 organizations across 16
countries. It houses more than 300 million rows of data — and is
growing daily. Since the program launched, it has seen an 85
percent increase in experts using the platform, and an 80 percent
increase in datasets uploaded.
“By bringing researchers and data together in a more centralized
tool, we’ll be able to make insights more visible, better
anticipate future demands, and ultimately do a better job of
planning to meet the needs of the world’s 8 billion+ people by
2050,” said Sarah Cummings, manager, The Demand Institute,
Nielsen.
In recognition of this innovative work, Accenture has been named
a recipient of the Salesforce Partner Innovation Award in the
Nonprofit category. The award was presented at Dreamforce 2019.
Saideep Raj, senior managing director of the Accenture
Salesforce Business Group, added, “By connecting data from many
organizations, Project 8 can close the research and data gap in the
global development sector. With Salesforce technology and support
from the United Nations Foundation, this work is a great example of
how Accenture can leverage our technology and industry experience
to turn big data into big outcomes.”
Tyler Prince, executive vice president, Industries &
Partners, Salesforce, said, “The work that our Partner Innovation
Awards winners do to drive customer success deserves to be
celebrated. Companies across every industry are increasingly
turning to the cloud and to trusted partners to guide them through
their digital transformation journeys.”
Accenture and The Demand Institute will co-present a session
entitled, “Project 8 Data Collaboration Platform Delivers Insights
For 17 UN SDGs,” at Dreamforce on Tuesday, November 19 at
3:30pm.
About Accenture
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company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in
strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining
unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40
industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s
largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of
business and technology to help clients improve their performance
and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 492,000
people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
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