Bengaluru-based real estate firm Puravankara Ltd. has chosen SAP and IBM to drive digital transformation and streamline its operations through a cloud ERP solution leveraging the full potential of RISE with SAP.
Geared towards driving faster business transformation time-to-value, SAP and IBM’s Evolution Partnership accelerates industry innovation through industry-specific data value offerings, advances customer and employee experiences, and provides flexibility to run customers’ workloads in various cloud landscapes. Additionally, IBM was among the numerous SAP strategic partners that have expressed early support to the German enterprise software company’s RISE with SAP solution — a milestone offering that aims to propel customers’ holistic transformation into an intelligent enterprise.
The two tech giants have worked together to co-develop several industry offerings that leverage artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and analytics and complement SAP’s latest Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS). As RISE with SAP continues to gain momentum in Asia, SAP and IBM’s shared commitment to empowering customers to achieve end-to-end transformation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic forges ahead.
In India, Puravankara Limited, one of the country’s largest real estate developers, has tapped IBM Global Business Services (GBS) and SAP to accelerate the organisation’s journey to the cloud through RISE with SAP. Kamal Singhani, Country Managing Partner at IBM Services in India/South Asia, has commented on the latest customer win, saying:
“By leveraging our deep consulting expertise and access to technological innovations, Puravankara will be able to fast-track their digital transformation journey, create intelligent workflows to drive the efficiency and agility needed in their dynamic industry landscape.”
Driving Digital Transformation with SAP and IBM
Intending to utilise the power of cloud and enable seamless business processes, IBM will incorporate the SAP cloud environment with Puravankara’s ERP system. The real estate firm, which has a strong market reach across India and an overseas presence in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Sri Lanka, aims to implement an intelligent suite of solutions to increase operational agility and business efficiency while achieving unprecedented growth.
Through extensive digitalisation, Puravankara Ltd. aspires to monitor real-time market movements and obtain immediate and actionable insights across its project development. The project with SAP and IBM is anticipated to redefine the core objective of the enterprise’s digital strategy and optimise existing processes to elevate customer experiences.
Ashish Puravankara, Managing Director at Puravankara Limited, said that the company has always been a pioneer of major developments in the real estate industry as a resilient business entity. He added:
“Over the last year, as operational challenges took a new form, our primary focus was to build an enterprise that leads the future of work and advances customer success. By collaborating with IBM to deploy SAP, we will modernise our business capabilities and solve on-ground bottlenecks with ease while setting precedence in this highly competitive industry.”
Puravankara Limited Leverages RISE with SAP
Puravankara Ltd. worked closely with IBM to implement the SAP RISE program — an integrated cloud ERP system aiming to revolutionise the company’s business transformation. In addition, a strategic sourcing solution from SAP called Ariba Sourcing will also be used by IBM to automate and streamline crucial functions in sourcing indirect and direct commodities.
Subramanian Ananthapadmanabhan, Vice President – Mid-Market at SAP Indian Subcontinent, maintained:
“With our RISE with the SAP solution, we accelerate our customers’ transition to the cloud and enable them to become future-ready organisations. By adopting RISE with SAP, Puravankara has taken another step towards serving its customers better with digital tools and technologies. SAP along with IBM is empowering Puravankara to lead the charter in the real estate segment by creating unique landmarks and community living of the highest standards for its customers.”
Moreover, the IBM ASCEND framework, which is used to deliver SAP S/4HANA migration projects, was also leveraged to bring in more efficient delivery execution, reduced maintenance risks, and higher quality operations. The methodology combines the SAP Activate innovation adoption approach and IBM’s best practices, such as organisational change management and leading project management tasks.
