INFRONEER Holdings announced that it worked with Accenture to build a new financial data and insights platform in three months to advance its group management capabilities.
The platform is the first deliverable of a broader project to build a data-driven next-generation digital core. The initiative is intended to connect management information end-to-end, from project-level cost management to group-wide financial accounting, enabling faster and more sophisticated decision-making across the group.
The project marks a key step in INFRONEER Holdings’ transformation into an integrated infrastructure service company spanning the full lifecycle of infrastructure. The company is moving beyond a traditional contracting-centered model while responding to industry challenges such as aging infrastructure, labor shortages, slow digitalization, and group expansion through M&A.
INFRONEER Strategy & Innovation, a joint venture established by INFRONEER Holdings and Accenture in April 2025, accelerated the work. For the project, SAP Cloud ERP was implemented for the financial accounting domain at the core of group management.
The companies said the rapid implementation reflects INFRONEER Holdings’ management-led business reform approach, including close collaboration with operating companies to understand frontline realities and business requirements. The implementation was also supported by a new approach announced by Accenture and SAP in April to rapidly deploy SAP Cloud ERP as a foundation for AI-driven value creation.
Looking ahead, INFRONEER Holdings and Accenture plan to extend the approach to additional functions, including procurement and cost management, while advancing AI-powered analytics and predictive insights to improve decision-making across the group.
Over the longer term, INFRONEER Holdings aims to evolve the initiative into a model that can be scaled across the infrastructure and construction industry, supporting productivity improvements and helping address societal challenges related to infrastructure.
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“The most important insight from this project is that building core enterprise systems should be treated not as an operational project, but as a management driven initiative. These projects often become prolonged because development begins before management has defined what data it needs to see and how it will use that data to make decisions—questions only management can answer. At INFRONEER HD, we have long practiced data driven management and refined our management framework together with Accenture. That foundation enabled us to deploy our financial accounting system in just three months and begin expanding into other business areas—rather than years such projects typically require. Going forward, we plan to extend this approach into other functions and across the entire group and position management led, data driven transformation as a catalyst for innovation in the infrastructure and construction industry.”
Kazunari Kibe, Representative Executive Officer and President of INFRONEER Holdings
“Through its Reinvention Services, Accenture helps clients achieve rapid transformation by integrating management and performance improvement, business and operational reform, core system modernization, data and AI, ecosystem collaboration, and operations outsourcing into a single, connected effort. Our work with INFRONEER HD is Reinvention Services in action: We combined data- and AI-powered business reform with operational efficiency and end-to-end transformation from the boardroom to the front line to bring core enterprise systems live in just three months. This is a best-case outcome enabled by specific preconditions—executive engagement, prior business reform, organizational culture, and industry and process context—and while it may not apply to every client, this approach can reliably reduce both implementation timelines and investment. As AI becomes central to enterprise management, the ability to deliver this kind of implementation speed is more critical than ever to sharpening decision-making, raising productivity, and strengthening competitiveness.”
Dai Hamaoka, Representative Director and President Japan Country Managing Director at Accenture
“This initiative by INFRONEER HD represents a concrete outcome of the collaboration program between SAP Japan and Accenture to rapidly establish SAP Cloud ERP as a foundation for AI driven value creation. Brought live in just three months, this advanced project serves as a flagship SAP Cloud ERP initiative in Japan’s construction industry. By combining customers’ strong commitment to management transformation and deep understanding of Japanese business operations with SAP’s global standardization expertise and advanced technologies, SAP Japan will continue supporting customers in advancing operations that underpin social infrastructure.”
Yoshiro Horikawa, President and Representative Director of SAP Japan
