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.

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In June 2020, IBM and SAP announced that their next evolution partnership is geared towards driving faster business transformation time to value, accelerating industry innovation through industry-specific data value offerings, livening up customer and employee experiences, and providing ultimate flexibility and choice to run customers’ workloads in hybrid cloud environments. IBM was among the many SAP strategic partners that have expressed early support to the German software enterprise’s RISE with SAP, a milestone offering to propel customers’ holistic transformation into intelligent enterprises. Furthermore, the two tech giants have co-developed several industry offerings that leverage AI, automation, and analytics and complement SAP’s latest Business Transformation as a Service.

As RISE with SAP continues to gain traction around the world, IBM and SAP’s shared goal of enabling customers to achieve end-to-end transformation amidst the pandemic forges ahead. In India, Virescent Infrastructure, a renewable energy platform backed by leading global investment firm KKR, 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 –IBM Services, India/South Asia said:

“With deep industry and technology delivery expertise in the energy sector, we are in a unique position to help customers leverage IBM industry expertise to build upon our 49-year global partnership with SAP. Our collaboration with Virescent Infrastructure will result in augmented workflows and enhanced business processes being delivered on cloud. The company will not only be able to take advantage of automation capabilities from top management to the lowest rung, but also drive sustainability across organisation.”

IBM Global Business Services and SAP Enable Modernisation

Virescent Infrastructure has selected to deploy RISE with SAP through IBM GBS to enable the company to modernise its processes and achieve better outcomes leveraging SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Business Network, and core business applications. The transformation project was slated in seven months and designed in two phases–with the first phase consisting of the core SAP S/4HANA and other critical components and the second being the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application– was anticipated to deliver automation and improved governance across the organisation. Moreover, the deployment project also leveraged SAP Fiori user experience to ensure delivery of a smart integrated view of data.

Launched in October 2020, the Mumbai-headquartered company aims to expand its diversified portfolio of operational renewable energy assets in India. Now competing in the fast-growing renewable energy sector and managing several assets across India, including the 394.35 MW of solar assets located in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, it was critical for Virescent Infrastructure to modernise its processes to keep up with the growing business. 

Aside from automating stock reports & inventory management, procurement & vendor management, and pricing & tax calculation, the company was also in need of centralising and consolidating visibility across operations to be able to make faster and informed decisions.

Identifying RISE with SAP Deployment Goals

Through RISE with SAP and in collaboration with IBM GBS, Virescent Infrastructure intended to achieve:

• Automation and improved governance across multiple levels of the organisation, reducing the overall turnaround time and human errors. 
• Delivery of clear, unified visibility of its stocks and assets to streamline employees’ output, allowing them to devote efforts to other critical tasks
• Consolidation of the procurement function to streamline the invoicing processes, tracking of stocks, and vendor management to improve quality, compliance, and governance
• Accessibility of online data with in-built analytics to provide the management team with real-time insights into the organisation 

“RISE with SAP gave us a more flexible operational environment and helped us standardise and automate processes and integrate multiple functions seamlessly. Working with IBM as our trusted partner in accelerating our journey to hybrid cloud has resulted in faster access to information, better meaningful controls, and increased productivity,” said Kushal Kumar Varshney, Chief Technology Officer, Virescent Infrastructure.

Subramanian Ananthapadmanabhan, Vice President –Mid-Market, SAP Indian Subcontinent explained how the software company has been helping its customers accelerate and simplify their transition into future-ready organisations. He highlighted:

“Through RISE with SAP, we are providing customers the power to transform their business on their own terms and on their own timeline in the cloud. Virescent Infrastructure has taken a lead to become a future-ready organisation to work toward its vision of providing access to affordable and clean energy for all by 2030.”

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