Long-time partners SAP and Accenture are deepening their relationship with a new offering that calls for Accenture to serve as a single point of contact on projects involving SAP's HANA in-memory database platform and Accenture's own intellectual property. Accenture will handle all contracts for software and services, which is a "a true differentiator that allows clients to focus on deployments of the solutions, either as a public or private cloud service," the companies said in the announcement on Thursday.