SNP’s data transformation platform CrystalBridge® and BLUEFIELD approach selected for series of S/4 transformations for Astra Group’s automotive companies

Heidelberg, Germany | Singapore | Jakarta, Indonesia, October 29, 2021 – SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE (the SNP Group), a world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations, has completed a successful SAP S/4HANA go-live with a move to the Azure Cloud for PT United Tractors Tbk, the largest heavy equipment provider in Indonesia, in collaboration with PT Astra Graphia Information Technology (AGIT). Following this success, the Astra Group has selected SNP and AGIT for multiple SAP S/4HANA transformation projects this year.

United Tractors, a subsidiary of PT Astra International Tbk (Astra), one of Indonesia’s largest and leading business groups, was gearing up to expand its business by implementing a synergy-based and diversified business model in various business units. The associated digitalization involving the migration to the new SAP S/4HANA business suite with lower cloud operating costs was identified as a priority to support business growth, influence the company’s ability to adopt next-generation business processes, and enable it to make informed decisions quickly based on real-time insights. The need of the hour was a reliable, time-efficient and cost-saving approach, accommodating the highest flexibility regarding the coverage of data transformation requirements and with minimal downtime.

Lie Gunadi, Corporate Strategic and Technology Division Head, PT United Tractors Tbk, says, “As part of United Tractors’ digital transformation journey, the company planned to upgrade its existing ECC 6.0 (on-premises) to significantly improve its operations via a host of optimization strategies. A rapid implementation to move the core business system to S/4HANA and the cloud was imperative to manage demand for innovation, customization and transparent real-time analysis, ensuring business agility – an essential aspect for staying at the top in today’s increasingly intense market environment. Apart from resolving the data transformation challenges, SNP’s CrystalBridge^® and BLUEFIELD approach delivered as per United Tractors’ ambition for a leaner, higher-performance S/4HANA target system in Azure. A high degree of automation and reliability combined multiple projects simultaneously and reduced the data footprint with selective data migration, lowering TCO at minimal downtime and risk and achieving a single go-live within budgeted timelines. Thanks to SNP, we are on an accelerated path to becoming an agile intelligent enterprise.”

Gerald Faust, Managing Director and CEO, Asia Pacific and Middle East, SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., adds, “SNP is delighted to be part of United Tractor’s strategic endeavor to become an intelligent enterprise with an automated and accelerated transformation to SAP S/4HANA as they transformed their data, business and systems from on-premises to Azure. In the wake of this success, SNP has been engaged to extend its proven expertise to more automotive and heavy equipment companies, dealing with Komatsu, Daihatsu, Toyota, Honda and others within the Astra Group. SNP’s approach supports business growth and paves the way for integrating emerging technologies including big data, embedded AI, in-memory HANA database and real-time analytics.”

Widi Triwibowo, President Director, AGIT, comments, “As a strategic IT arm of the Astra Group, we combined our expertise with SNP to significantly drive United Tractors’ operations, leading the industry through a host of digital, data transformation and cost optimization strategies with an outlook for business continuity and agility. SNP’s software-centric data transformation platform CrystalBridge^® and selective data migration approach BLUEFIELD, which flexibly combines the best of Greenfield (new implementation) and Brownfield (system conversion) approaches, offered a low-risk acceleration of the S/4HANA transformation to the Azure Cloud through automation and specialized data visualization. The proven, reliable methodology combined multiple projects – New GL, Business Partner and Unicode conversion – delivering clear advantages in terms of costs, system downtime and project runtimes.”

Together, AGIT and SNP are implementing a series of business-critical SAP S/4HANA transformation projects for the Astra Group of companies across the heavy equipment and automotive divisions in the region. Their collaboration focuses on business and IT transformation projects specific to SAP environments, providing a repeatable industry standard joint offering in the Astra Group and the Southeast Asian market.

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About PT United Tractors Tbk

United Tractors is a subsidiary of PT Astra International Tbk (“Astra”), one of Indonesia’s largest and leading business groups with a network of services spanning various industries and sectors. Since September 19, 1989, United Tractors has become a public company by listing its shares on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (formerly the Jakarta Stock Exchange and the Surabaya Stock Exchange). Astra owns 59.5{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of United Tractors, with the remaining shares owned by the public. Today United Tractors has developed into one of the major players in the domestic sector and industry, through five business pillars, namely Construction Machinery, Mining Contractor, Mining, Construction Industry, and Energy.

The construction machinery business unit, known as United Tractors, is the largest heavy equipment provider in Indonesia. As the sole distributor of Komatsu, UD Trucks, Scania, Bomag, and Tadano, United Tractors provides heavy equipment, trucks, cranes, and busses used in industrial construction, energy, mining, agriculture, forestry, as well as material handling and transportation. For more information visit: United Tractors.

About SNP

SNP is a world-leading provider of software for managing complex digital transformation processes. Instead of traditional IT consulting in the ERP environment, SNP offers an automated approach using specially developed software: The Data Transformation Platform CrystalBridge^(R) and the SNP BLUEFIELD^TM approach allow companies to restructure and modernize their IT landscapes much more quickly and securely as well as migrate to new systems or cloud environments more securely. This gives customers clear qualitative advantages while at the same time reducing their time and costs.

The SNP Group has around 1,600 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenues of around EUR 144 million in the 2020 fiscal year. It serves multinational companies in all industries. SNP was established in 1994, went public in 2000, and has been listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since August 2014 (ISIN DE0007203705). Since 2017, the company has been trading as a European company (Societas Europaea/SE). More information is available at www.snpgroup.com.

About PT Astra Graphia Information Technology (AGIT)

AGIT is a Digital Service Provider, presenting the concept of One Stop Solution on Digital Services. Since 1983, AGIT is part of PT Astra International Tbk Group, a conglomerate in Indonesia that currently has 238 subsidiaries and affiliated companies with 7 business fields (automotive, financial services, heavy equipment, agribusiness, information technology, infrastructure & logistics, and Property). AGIT itself is 100{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} owned by PT Astra Graphia Tbk.

As a Digital Service Provider, AGIT has transformed its business not only focused on providing ICT infrastructure and application-related services but rather on what we refer to as One-Stop-Solutions on Digital Services, both in on-premises and cloud infrastructure models. We carry the concept of digitalize things, to help and assist our customers in digital transformation through the application of digital technology & digital solutions. We have four main pillars in our Digital Solutions Portfolio covering all the journeys required to undertake digital transformation ranging from Digital Strategy, Digital ICT Foundation, Digital Platforms and Digital Services. For more information, visit Astra Graphia Information Technology (ag-it.com).

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Heidelberg, Germany | Singapore | Sydney, Australia, August 5, 2021 – Think180 Pty Ltd., a leading SAP Silver Partner headquartered in Australia, has signed a Silver Partnership deal with SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE (SNP SE), a world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations, to license and distribute SNP software in the strategic and fastest growing Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

The alliance combines the business focused expertise of Think180’s SAP specialization with SNP’s software centric data transformation platform CrystalBridge® and selective data migration approach SNP BLUEFIELD, that flexibly combines the best of Greenfield (new implementation) and Brownfield (system conversion) approaches.

This will offer a repeatable factory tactic for accelerated SAP transformation in business-critical scenarios such as SAP S/4HANA, cloud migrations, mergers & acquisitions, carve-outs, interface discovery or operational transfer pricing amongst others. The packaged solution bundled with one-stop shop end-to-end software plus service aims to reduce enterprises’ total cost of ownership and offer a faster ROI on their projects in the region.

John Schultz, CEO, Think180, Australia, said, “We are excited to join forces with SNP’s automated software-based approach taking our SAP business enablement expertise to the next level in the Asia Pacific region. We have a long history of delivering our clients SAP solutions that transform business processes, drive new thinking, and utilize the latest technologies. Our partnership with SNP provides our valued clients with a new dimension of fast, secure and low-risk standardized SAP transformations, targeting the small and medium size enterprises segment apart from SAP’s general business and large enterprise segment in the region. With a full visualization of the entire SAP ERP system and flexible simulation of various SAP transformation scenarios through CrystalBridge®, we will be able to offer selective data and process optimizations and simultaneously combine multiple projects into a single go-live, thus ensuring faster ROI with minimal business disruption.”

In an official announcement, Gerald Faust, Managing Director & CEO, Asia Pacific and Middle East, SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., added, “SNP’s strategic focus on the promising and fastest growing APAC region* in SAP transformations is reinforced with our partnership with Think180 Australia‘s proficiency in delivering clients’ business focused SAP solutions. Driven by our synergies for innovative software centric SAP transformations, our factory approach offers a simple, predictable, and reliable package designed to map diverse scenarios even with varying complexities. With our well-established successful competency in delivering several end-to-end SAP landscape transformation projects such as S/4HANA, Cloud migration, merger and carve-out in the APAC region with speed, agility, minimum downtime, reduced risk and costs, we are excited to work with Think180 for our clients on their journey to become an intelligent enterprise.”

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Source: *Asia-Pacific remains one of the fastest growing regions for wealth with 168,567 UHNWIs expected by 2025 (knightfrank.com.sg)

About Think180 Pty Ltd.

Think180 are SAP Asset, Work and Project Specialists, optimising your business through intelligent solutions and processes.

Using smart technology like machine learning, in conjunction with SAP technologies, Think180 uncovers intelligent solutions that drive indisputable process efficiencies. Our intelligent, 180-degree way of thinking allows us to solve all your challenges across work execution, asset management, project management, regulatory compliance, analytics, managed services and intelligent migrations and conversions.

We have been solving client challenges Australia wide for over twelve years. Our empathetic and highly-skilled team are totally understanding of your frustrations and will deliver an exceptional customer experience while solving the problem at hand.

For more information, visit: Think180 » SAP Silver Partner in Adelaide, South Australia

About SNP

SNP is a world-leading provider of software for managing complex digital transformation processes. Instead of traditional IT consulting in the ERP environment, SNP offers an automated approach using specially developed software: The Data Transformation Platform CrystalBridge^(R) and the SNP BLUEFIELD^TM approach allow companies to restructure and modernize their IT landscapes much more quickly and securely as well as migrate to new systems or cloud environments more securely. This gives customers clear qualitative advantages while at the same time reducing their time and costs.

The SNP Group has around 1,600 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenues of around EUR 144 million in the 2020 fiscal year. It serves multinational companies in all industries. SNP was established in 1994, went public in 2000, and has been listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since August 2014 (ISIN DE0007203705). Since 2017, the company has been trading as a European company (Societas Europaea/SE).

More information is available at www.snpgroup.com

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Heidelberg (Germany) I Singapore, July 29, 2021 – SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE, a world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations, signed an agreement today to acquire 100{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of the shares in Datavard AG. The software and consulting company with around 170 employees specializes in transformations and data management in SAP landscapes and generated total revenues of around EUR 17.6 million in the 2020 fiscal year. The initial consolidation is expected to take place on August 1, 2021.

The acquisition of Datavard AG plays an important role in the implementation of SNP’s platform strategy, which allows companies to generate maximum value from their data transformation using just one software solution.

Gregor Stöckler, co-founder and CEO of Datavard AG, will join the Board of Managing Directors of SNP SE as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO). He will be responsible for the sales regions USA and UK-Ireland as well as globally for analytics, platform strategy, technology partners and partner marketing.

“With this acquisition, we are expanding our software portfolio to include Datavard’s solutions in the areas of SAP data management and analytics. In both the software and the consulting business, the two portfolios complement each other perfectly. Until now, SNP and Datavard have acted as competitors and partners in the market; in the future, we will use the newly gained strength from the merger of both companies to serve our customers and partners even more comprehensively,” says Michael Eberhardt, CEO of SNP SE.

Datavard has been active in the market for over 20 years and focuses on transformations and data management in SAP landscapes. In the area of transformation, Datavard supports companies in migrating to SAP S/4HANA, modernizing their analytics and data warehouse landscape, and carrying out mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, and company splits. In the area of data management, Datavard offers solutions for data lifecycle management, business intelligence and analytics, and innovative cloud connectivity solutions that enable SAP customers to integrate and utilize SAP data in applications for artificial intelligence, machine learning and the Internet of things. Over 50 of the Global Fortune 500 and numerous DAX 30 companies are Datavard customers. In addition, the company has an outstanding partner network consisting of national and international players such as Accenture, AppDynamics, Google, Microsoft, SAP and more.

“We are very pleased to now be a part of the market leader for data transformation software solutions in the SAP world,” says Gregor Stöckler, founder and CEO of Datavard AG. “It opens up many new opportunities for our employees, customers and partners. SNP and Datavard have known and appreciated each other for many years as competitors and as partners. In addition, we are successfully collaborating in the “SAP S/4HANA Selective Data Transition Engagement” working group. Together, we will be able to support our customers and partners in their digital transformations even better.”

In addition to its headquarters in Heidelberg, Datavard has two large locations in Slovakia and a strong location in Switzerland. Furthermore, Datavard is also represented in the USA and Singapore in the Asia Pacific Japan region. “We are looking forward to welcoming the new employees, who will strengthen and expand our core business,” says Prof. Dr. Heiner Diefenbach, CFO of SNP SE.

From a regional perspective, Gerald Faust, Managing Director & CEO, Asia Pacific and Middle East, SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., commented,” We are enthused about unifying our capabilities for end-to-end data migration offerings for the SAP eco-system in the strategic and fastest growing Asia Pacific Japan region. Our software platform centric and cultural synergies make us a leading provider for digital data transformation and data management resonating across all major markets.”

Financing

As consideration for the acquisition of all shares in Datavard AG, a cash component of around EUR 20 million and the issue of 173,333 new shares from a capital increase through contributions in kind are planned. An independent valuation has confirmed the appropriateness of the total purchase price. Taking into account Datavard’s double-digit growth expectations for the current year, the purchase price represents 15 times Datavard’s currently expected operating profit for 2021. The new shares will be issued indirectly to Gregor Stöckler and two additional shareholders of Datavard AG, and all three will remain with the company after the transaction. The shares issued will be subject to a 36-month lock-up period.

About Datavard

Datavard is an innovative provider of intelligent solutions and consulting services for SAP data management, SAP S/4HANA migrations, data warehouse modernization, legacy system decommissioning, SAP data integration, big data and system landscape transformations. As a trusted SAP partner with over 20 years of expertise, Datavard helps companies worldwide run their SAP systems leanly, efficiently and profitably. Datavard is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, with offices in EMEA, the US and Asia. For more information, visit www.datavard.com.

About SNP

SNP is a world-leading provider of software for managing complex digital transformation processes. Instead of traditional IT consulting in the ERP environment, SNP offers an automated approach using specially developed software: The Data Transformation Platform CrystalBridge^® and the SNP BLUEFIELD^TM approach allow companies to restructure and modernize their IT landscapes much more quickly and securely as well as migrate to new systems or cloud environments more securely. This gives customers clear qualitative advantages while at the same time reducing their time and costs.

The SNP Group has around 1,600 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenue of around EUR 144 million in the 2020 fiscal year. It serves multinational companies in all industries. SNP was established in 1994, went public in 2000, and has been listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since August 2014 (ISIN DE0007203705). Since 2017, the company has been trading as a European company (Societas Europaea/SE).

More information is available at www.snpgroup.com

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The Elevated Rights Manager grants sensitive fire-fighting access in an automated workflow-driven process, and enables your management team to perform a structured review of any activities that were performed during the Elevated Rights Access period.

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The Periodic Review Manager allows business users to review access in the context of risk and business processes, ensuring informed and effective decision making. This business-friendly process is easily managed using progress dashboards to expedite the review process. This process will significantly enhance the insight into your GRC environment, as well as being an audit and statutory requirement for many organizations.

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The Central Identity Manager introduces the Business Role concept to improve efficiencies in the SAP user provisioning process. Standardization of job functions across the organization reduces complexity and the effort required to manage and review SAP user access. The Central User Administration functionality further reduces the support effort and cost to manage user access across the SAP landscape, including non-productive SAP systems.

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About Soterion:

Soterion is a leading provider of SAP governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions. Soterion’s user-friendly GRC solutions provide SAP customers with in-depth access risk reporting in business-friendly language. This allows organizations to effectively understand and manage their access risk exposure. Soterion is passionate about simplifying the governance, risk and compliance processes, with a focus on enhancing better decision making and business accountability.  

Soterion’s plug-and-play GRC solution is easy to learn, S/4HANA ready and boasts an award-winning user experience. Organizations running SAP can make use of Soterion’s GRC security suite either as an on-premise or a secure cloud offering.

As access risk is business risk, Soterion believes that effective GRC is measured by how well the business users can carry out their access risk management activities. Our business-friendly GRC solution enhances the organisation’s overall risk awareness by empowering business buy-in and accountability of access risk.

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Soterion is passionate about simplifying the governance, risk and compliance processes, with a focus on enhancing better decision making and business accountability.

Since inception in 2011, Soterion has provided customers with a holistic offering; combining business-centric GRC software with expert SAP security consulting services, just the combination organizations need to maximise the value of their GRC investment.

Soterion’s plug-and-play GRC solution is easy to learn, S/4HANA ready and boasts an award-winning user experience. Organizations running SAP can make use of Soterion’s GRC security suite either as an on-premise or a secure cloud offering.

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Heidelberg, Germany | Singapore | Bangkok, Thailand, June 16, 2021 – Nexus, a leading SAP consulting partner and reseller in Southeast Asia, has signed a Silver Partnership deal with SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE (the SNP Group), a world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations, to license and distribute SNP software in the fast-growing Indochina market in Asia. The alliance will focus on SAP^® S/4HANA and SAP move to cloud transformations, among others.

The partnership has also successfully launched a strategic SAP transformation project with HomePro, a large home improvement retailer in Thailand. Nexus and SNP’s automated software approach powered by CrystalBridge^® is the key driver in HomePro’s digital transformation strategy to move to SAP Suite on HANA with the near-zero downtime methodology in just a few months – achieving HomePro’s business goals as an innovative leader in the retail industry in the region. The SAP data and landscape transformation is projected to provide a stable and flexible foundation platform to support HomePro’s growth, delivering an upgrade with minimal impact to the business while empowering real-time data analytics and omni-channel capability.

Padoongkiat Apichaidejudom, Chief Executive Officer, Nexus System Resources Company Limited, Thailand, said, “We are excited that together with SNP’s automated software-based approach, we can deliver fast, secure and low-risk SAP projects to our customers. With a visualization of the entire SAP ERP system and flexible simulation of various SAP transformation scenarios through CrystalBridge^®, we are able to offer real-time analytics, selective data and process harmonization, and the ability to minimize the cloud and data footprint, thus ensuring faster ROI with minimal business disruption.”

In an official announcement, Gerald Faust, Managing Director & CEO, Asia Pacific and Middle East, SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., added, “SNP’s strategic focus on Indochina is driven by Thailand’s 4.0 strategy and digital transformation (DX) master plan to promote and support innovation and higher technologies. We are pleased to formalize our existing go-to-market collaboration with Nexus, equipped with proven experience and a strong understanding of this market. We are enthused to offer our end-to-end software-driven solutions to enterprising organizations and digitally driven retail industries such as HomePro to address their challenges related to data transformation. Our CrystalBridge^® software with the near-zero downtime methodology simplifies complex projects such as the move to SAP S/4HANA or the cloud, mergers and carve-outs fully remotely and has stirred up keen interest in our engagements with the Indochina customers on their journey to become an intelligent enterprise.”

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About HomePro

The Company was established with objective to operate a retail business in home improvement segment by selling goods and providing complete range of services related to construction, addition, refurbishment, renovation, Home Makeover, improvement of buildings, houses and residential places through One Stop Shopping Home Center under the trade name of “HomePro” which is the Company’s trademark.

For more information visit: HomePro | No.1 Home Improvement Center in Thailand

About Nexus

Established since 1999, NEXUS is an enterprise business solutions company with a proven track record in helping our customers digitally transform their business by integrating processes, technologies and people in the most seamless and cost – effective manner.

As a reseller of SAP, BlueYonder and MuleSoft solutions, we provide end-to-end services including business consulting, solution architecture design, project management and implementation, solution enhancements, and support and maintenance services to organizations running enterprise solutions as their strategic IT platform.

For more information visit: www.nexus-sr.com

About SNP

SNP is a world-leading provider of software for managing complex digital transformation processes. Instead of traditional IT consulting in the ERP environment, SNP offers an automated approach using specially developed software: The Data Transformation Platform CrystalBridge^(R) and the SNP BLUEFIELD^TM approach allow companies to restructure and modernize their IT landscapes much more quickly and securely as well as migrate to new systems or cloud environments more securely. This gives customers clear qualitative advantages while at the same time reducing their time and costs.

The SNP Group has around 1,600 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenues of around EUR 144 million in the 2020 fiscal year. It serves multinational companies in all industries. SNP was established in 1994, went public in 2000, and has been listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since August 2014 (ISIN DE0007203705). Since 2017, the company has been trading as a European company (Societas Europaea/SE).

More information is available at www.snpgroup.com

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We face not only market changes through disruptive technology, digital transformation and competitive threats, but also COVID which has shifted customer expectations.

To drive the perfect enterprise, we need to redefine how enterprise software creates value in a digital, networked economy.

SAP S/4HANA delivers massive simplifications (customer adoption, data model, user experience, decision making, business processes, and models) and innovations (Internet of Things, Big Data, business networks, and mobile-first) to help businesses run simple in a digital and networked economy. This is why SAP has evolved its application platform to empower businesses to transform their operations to meet the changing needs of their customers and employees.

There are 3 perspectives to consider. The business value perspective, where SAP S/4HANA creates unique opportunities to reinvent business models and drive new revenues and profits. From an IT value perspective, this means that SAP S/4HANA simplifies the landscape and help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

Just how do you make the move, exactly? The legacy infrastructure currently installed may not be the one you need to get the most out of an SAP S/4HANA deployment. Traditional ways of implementing and managing infrastructure simply don’t work in today’s rapidly changing business environment.

SUSE considered the challenges customers face:

• Choosing the right mix of on-premise, public cloud and hybrid cloud platforms
• Maintaining increasingly complex infrastructures
• Replacing outdated manual processes that are time-consuming and error-prone
• Learning new skills to support cloud platforms
• Addressing business requirements for faster time to market

Moving to SAP S/4HANA means rethinking infrastructure and processes. To make that move, and ease the customer’s pain by addressing those challenges effectively, you need a trusted partner that can deliver benefits such as:

• Automating infrastructure management
• Delivering services faster with automated tools
• Transitioning to SAP S/4HANA on-premise or to the cloud smoothly
• Minimizing risk of downtime with services to ensure reliability and security

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This partnership had already successfully delivered SAP transformation projects including an ECC migration and move to the cloud with the Near Zero Downtime methodology before the formation of this strategic alliance. These business-critical project implementations have simplified the complex digital transformation of data and processes for several industries including a lifestyle retailer, a pharmaceutical company and a leading paper manufacturer in Indonesia. The duration of the contract will be until the end of 2023 with a reinforced focus on SAP® S/4HANA transformations.

In an official announcement, Gerald Faust, Managing Director & CEO, JAPAC, SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd., commented, “SNP’s strategic focus on Indonesia is based on the current government’s mandate to transform Indonesia into an Industry 4.0 economy. The country is on track to become a $2 trillion economy in the next five years and a top 10 economy by 2030 or earlier with the agenda for progress, innovation and growth. We are pleased to formalize our existing go-to-market collaboration with Soltius armed with established experience and a solid understanding of this market. We have developed end-to-end software-driven solutions that address the pain points related to data transformation in complex projects such as SAP S/4HANA, mergers or cloud migrations fully remotely. SNP’s CrystalBridge® software with the Near-Zero Downtime methodology has been very well received by the Indonesian customers. This alliance will offer real-time analytics, selective data and process harmonization, and the ability to minimize your cloud and data footprint, thus ensuring faster ROI with minimal business disruption and risk.”

Budi Lesmana Halim, President Director of PT Soltius Indonesia added, “We are excited that together with SNP’s automated software-based approach, we can deliver fast, secure and low-risk SAP projects to our customers. With visualization of the entire SAP ERP system and tailored migration paths through CrystalBridge®, we enable our customers to have a higher confidence level in completing the mission-critical SAP projects efficiently and within an optimal timeframe to ensure business continuity.”

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This Platinum Partnership combines the digital transformation capabilities of Fujitsu, a strong global brand with deep expertise in manufacturing, retail, financial services and other industries as well as SAP, with the unrivalled experience of the SNP Group, the world’s leading provider of data transformation software in the SAP environment.

Outdated and complicated core systems often become a bottleneck for digital transformation (DX). As the deadline for the maintenance cutoff for SAP ERP 6.0 approaches, existing SAP users are advised to complete the conversion from SAP ERP 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA and to start moving to the next-generation ERP platform in order to become more intelligent by also taking full advantage of advanced technologies such as the IoT and AI. Fujitsu’s expertise combined with SNP’s BLUEFIELD approach will enable SAP users to complete this S/4HANA conversion process at an unprecedented speed and agility, and with minimum risks while ensuring business continuity.

Under this partnership, SNP will provide technical know-how of its BLUEFIELD approach to Fujitsu to perform S/4HANA conversion and data transformation projects. Fujitsu will also resell licenses of CrystalBridge®, the data transformation software platform of SNP, which consists of a wide range of modules that automate the analysis, data transition and tests. CrystalBridge® builds on technical expertise accumulated over 26 years of SNP’s data transformation business. Thanks to this platform, which conducts a full analysis of customers’ systems and processes and systematizes everything about the transition, conversions to SAP S/4HANA can be completed in as little as six months (on average a 75{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} reduction compared with the conventional conversion approach) while minimizing downtime.

Michael Eberhardt, Chief Operating Officer (COO) at SNP said, “We are excited to partner with Fujitsu given their global presence and professionalism, their leading technical approach, and their strong industry capabilities. This partnership underpins the fact that our software- and partner-centric strategy resonates well with the increasing market demand for automated software-based data transformations. By using our transformation platform CrystalBridge^®, Fujitsu will be able to accelerate their customers’ digital transformation journeys while offering the agility to respond quickly to changing market needs. SNP, on the other hand, will strengthen its presence across all key global economic regions and become even more globally accessible for the benefit of its partners and clients.”

Shunsuke Onishi, Corporate Executive Officer, Head of Private Enterprise Business and Head of Global Services Business Group at Fujitsu Limited stated, “In order to remain competitive amidst the uncertainties of this unprecedented global pandemic, it’s becoming more critical than ever to build and maintain a robust business foundation to respond quickly to unexpected changes. Leveraging SNP’s technology with a strong global partnership will position Fujitsu to achieve optimal business infrastructure reform and modernization utilizing SAP’s solutions, which represent the de facto standard for enterprise applications. This move will also allow us to accelerate structural reforms for growth including mergers, integration, and carve-outs. Fujitsu aims to become a go-to partner for customers seeking to embrace digital transformation, delivering ever greater, tangible value to customers along their DX journeys.”

Through this partnership, Fujitsu will provide CrystalBridge® to its customers with favorable license pricing and will perform S/4HANA conversion and data transformation projects. Fujitsu and SNP will also work together to develop a business plan and marketing strategy to maximize the impact of this partnership. Prior to this partnership, SNP established SNP Japan on February 28, 2020. The Platinum Partnership agreement with Fujitsu will allow SNP to accelerate its business for Japanese and global companies. Meanwhile, Fujitsu will offer BLUEFIELD-based SAP S/4HANA conversions powered by CrystalBridge® starting in early October, supporting and accelerating the DX of its customers. Fujitsu aims to achieve a sales target of JPY10 billion (30 cases) globally by 2022 through this partnership.

By combining SNP’s BLUEFIELD approach and Fujitsu’s experience in manufacturing, retail and other industries as well as SAP, Fujitsu and SNP will provide the best solution that responds to the need of their customers to build a solid platform for DX while navigating around the unclear economic climate under COVID-19.

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However, when supporting SAP implementations, some systems integrators (SI’s) don’t consider security highly enough – focusing too much on the functional aspects of the project in order to get the project over the line as efficiently as possible.

This is unsurprising as today, whilst having great functional experience, few systems integrators have the skills to safeguard SAP effectively. But not doing so at the point of implementation can have considerable consequences:

1. Overspent budgets

Projects often go over budget due to avoidable and costly retrospective security remediation. 

2. Missed deadlines

Retrospective remediation doesn’t only cost money, it costs time – often resulting in missed project deadlines.

3. Auditor rejection

When it comes to the project being approved, either by auditors or internal teams, if the appropriate security measures haven’t been implemented it’s unlikely to get the go-ahead.

4. Business downtime

If left unchecked, poor security controls can result downtime – restricting user access to your business-critical application.

Often a more effective approach to implementation is to employ an SAP security specialist to work alongside an SI – bringing together great functional experience with the right security expertise. But how does this work in reality? How can SAP security specialists work alongside SIs?

Find the answers in the next part of Turnkey’s 7-part video series – where Turnkey’s global management team met to address some of the biggest challenges facing SAP security professionals today.

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