Japanese companies Marubeni Corporation and Human Holdings Co., Ltd. have recently joined the growing SAP cloud customer list in the country. Both enterprises have selected RISE with SAP — the German tech giant’s Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS) signature cloud offering — to standardise and modernise their respective operations.
SAP cloud solutions have been instrumental in accelerating the German multinational’s cloud strategy, as evidenced by the company’s Q4 2021 and full-year financial report. According to SAP CEO and Executive Board Member Christian Klein’s earlier statement, the increasing number of organisations banking on SAP products and services to achieve a holistic business transformation and successful cloud migration is a testament to the company’s commitment to accelerating the use of cloud.
The enterprise software giant has not only exceeded the top end of the group’s forecast for software and cloud earnings but has also seen massive support for its complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, which was propelled by RISE with SAP following its release in January last year. Since its launch, the BTaaS product has helped organisations from across different industries worldwide — ranging from sports to automatic vehicles and energy power companies. Aside from harnessing the power of cloud ERP, the comprehensive solution also provides analytics, business process intelligence (BPI), and SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) capabilities to transform customers into sustainable, intelligent enterprises and help them achieve meaningful business outcomes.
With industry-specific solutions that leverage innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics, SAP has continuously assisted organisations across the globe in running their businesses more efficiently. During the SAP Japan Customer Awards 2021, numerous customers were recognised for their efforts to embark on a transformational journey. These include SOLIZE Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, and Shiseido Co., Ltd., all of which began their breakthrough digital transformation in 2021 by utilising SAP’s wide range of cloud software applications and services.
Marubeni, Human Holdings Among the Latest SAP Cloud Customers in Japan
This month, Japanese companies Marubeni Corporation, a major integrated investment and trading business conglomerate, and Human Holdings Co., Ltd., a firm engaged in education, nursing care, and human resources-related businesses, have teamed up with SAP to scale their operational expansion and further expedite business process transformation. Implementing the signature offering RISE with SAP, both projects involving the new additions to the SAP cloud customer list will be centered on SAP’s next-generation ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
According to Marubeni Corporation, it has become increasingly difficult for its SAP ERP system to expand and upgrade its functionalities because of repeated add-on extensions since its inception in 2000. (InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.) With this, SAP S/4HANA Cloud was chosen by the company’s Information Planning Department in order to digitise its entire business operations, enable further innovation, and develop a stable platform for the future. RISE with SAP is now the core system platform for the group’s subsidiaries abroad.
Moreover, Marubeni intends to speed up and simplify the data migration and data management processes with the help of tools provided by SAP Partners Syniti and Tricentis. The organisation’s information subsidiary Marubeni IT Solutions Co., Ltd. is in charge of system introduction projects using the Fit to Standard approach and leveraging Syniti’s SAP Advanced Data Migration tools and Tricentis’ SAP Application Testing Solutions.
Meanwhile, Human Holdings Co., Ltd. has also deployed RISE with SAP to address the company’s mission-critical requirements of adding value to existing businesses, and creating new opportunities by aggregating, analysing, and utilising a wide range of management data. (InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.) It has partnered with Focus Systems to implement SAP’s comprehensive solution, taking into account its extensive proposal-making experience, which includes expertise in public cloud-based ERP and business flow enhancements.
