A SAP HANA ERP system has been chosen as a mission critical system for a joint state-run telecommunications project in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
The project was led by KDDI Corporation together with Sumitomo Corporation, in collaboration with the government-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT).
KDDI and Sumitomo reached agreement with the Myanmar government to work together to advance the telecommunications business in July 2014, and then launched a local subsidiary to undertake the work. At the outset of the project, accounting work and other operations were relying on handwritten slips and other manual processes.
With the Myanmar government promoting initiatives aimed at raising the nation’s cellphone ownership rate, additional technology is required to accelerate the introduction and use of accounting systems and other integrated mission critical systems.
The implementation of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA commenced in September 2015. Though given the underdeveloped state of Myanmar’s infrastructure environment, it was estimated about two months would be required just to secure the hardware.
Using Amazon Web Services as the development environment, the project was completed in only half a year without waiting for the deployment of the hardware first, and the new system is currently being incorporated into the business unit’s operations.
