People’s Daily Online, a large-scale information interaction platform by one of the world’s leading newspapers People’s Daily, has featured SAP (China) Co., Ltd. in the People’s Ingenuity 2021 Recommended Case exhibiton for the company’s remarkable contributions in the digital transformation of Chinese enterprises. (InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.) 

The People’s Ingenuity Recommended Cases in 2021 underpins China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, which runs from 2021 to 2025. One of the major targets of the latest Five Year Plan is embedding digital technologies to modernise China’s traditional industries to accelerate the Digital China initiative that envisions a digital society, digital government, and a healthy digital ecosystem.

Detailing SAP’s digitalisation efforts in the country, Dr. Huang Chenhong, SAP Global Executive Vice President and President of Greater China, stated: 

“SAP has been deeply involved in the Chinese market for 30 years, and has always adhered to the original intention of ‘in China, for China’, down-to-earth, and focused on serving customers’ digital transformation. Facing the development of the times In the new pattern, following the trend of innovation-driven high-quality development, ‘new Chinese enterprises’ are developing in a smart, collaborative and green direction. In the future, we hope to be an enabler of ‘new Chinese enterprises in the cloud era.”

SAP Cloud Computing Capabilities Accelerating Digitalisation

A market leader in enterprise application software, SAP has been a reliable transformation partner of companies of all sizes across various industries harnessing machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), advanced analytics, and cloud computing technologies. The tech multinational’s comprehensive portfolio of applications and services are embraced by customers that contribute to 87{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of total global commerce.

In China, SAP has established a benchmark for digitalisation, championing innovation to usher Chinese enterprises’ integration in the global digital trade. The enterprise software company has empowered companies to become sustainable, intelligent enterprises, which backs the momentum of the country’s growth in the real economy as well as the integration of its economic and technological innovation with the world.

Some of the SAP innovations that bolstered Chinese organisations’ digital transformation include:

RISE with SAP

The comprehensive Business Transformation as a Service offering of SAP has allowed Chinese enterprises to rapidly move their mission-critical, core systems to the cloud–giving them a strategic, flexible approach to digital transformation. Aside from bolstering small and medium-sized enterprises’ transition to the cloud, RISE with SAP has also empowered global Chinese companies to compete on the world stage, benchmarking against world-class standards and ensuring seamless and compliant global operations.

Guangzhou Commpro Information Technology Co. Ltd. (CommPro), a leading service vendor in South China, is one of the APAC companies that have integrated the RISE with SAP offering into its customers’ business plans to ensure customer retention and overcome challenges with the partner coaching service from SAP Services and Support. The successful implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition and SAP Services and Support Revenue resulted in an increased focus on project schedule, maintaining cost control, and improving customer success.

Sustainability Initiatives

SAP’s sustainability goals align with the country’s green development strategy, which is essential to the high-quality development of Chinese enterprises. Consistently awarded as an Industry Leader in the “Dow Jones Sustainability Index”, the tech enterprise has been embedding sustainability initiatives across its global operations and product portfolio. SAP has released several sustainability software solutions in 2021 such as SAP Product Footprint Management, SAP Responsible Design and Production, and SAP Sustainability Control Tower to help organisations better manage their green line.

Strong Cloud Ecosystem

SAP has been helping organisations in the country accelerate modernisation by providing a strong cloud ecosystem. In addition, the company builds local partnerships to develop more cloud products in China to enhance cloud delivery capabilities in the country, essentially, accelerating cloud migration.

Industrial Internet Support

Promoting collaboration around the Industrial Internet, SAP has launched several innovations such as a new generation of digital open architecture for smart enterprises and the “two-wheel model” of self-build + collaboration employing an API strategy as the technical foundation for open collaboration. Furthermore, SAP extends Germany’s expertise in co-building a cooperative ecosystem into the country and the Industrial Internet, delivering more development opportunities for the Chinese market.

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According to SAP Pakistan’s Country Managing Director Saquib Ahmad, the company is teaming up with the Pakistani government to support the “Digital Pakistan” vision. The creation of a digital ecosystem, including infrastructure and institutional frameworks, is a key goal of the Digital Pakistan Policy. It aims to enable the provision of cutting-edge digital services, as well as innovative applications and content. Additionally, the policy adopts a comprehensive strategy that is primarily focused on information and communications technology (ICT) as the main driver of every industry towards socio-economic growth.

Detailing more about the partnership with the government, SAP MD Saquib Ahmad shared:

“…co-innovating with the digital leaders to drive large-scale digitalisation across the country while also imparting digital literacy and training to ensure a holistic growth.”

In a recent press event in Karachi, Ahmad stated that digital innovation relies heavily on the use of the cloud and that many companies around the world are exploring a cloud-first approach for their IT operations. He added that instead of developing non-cloud-based technologies, adopting cloud services gives organisations the needed support for decreasing complexity, minimising costs, enabling real-time decision-making, and facilitating new avenues for digital business innovation.

Noting that cybersecurity continues to be one of the most challenging concerns that businesses encounter in today’s digital world, Ahmad went on to emphasise the company’s plans to step up its efforts to deliver greater online security for its customers.

Accelerating Digital Transformation with SAP Cloud Computing Technologies

Aside from helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the country, the SAP MD also revealed that over 90{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of Pakistan’s public and private sectors — including organisations in the fields of utilities, banking and finance, telecommunications, automotive, and the military — are utilising SAP solutions to optimise their mission-critical processes. He further highlighted how the tech giant’s cloud offerings enable enterprises in improving their end-to-end operations and innovating with new services in the cloud while at the same time, lowering costs and discovering opportunities for the development of the public and private industries.

Moreover, this month also witnessed SAP Pakistan’s partnership with NorthBay Solutions, an enterprise software outsourcing services provider with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Partner status. As a cloud consulting and migration services firm with extensive experience, NorthBay Solutions intends to help SAP customers in shifting their systems to the cloud landscape as efficiently as possible. Additionally, its latest partnership with SAP presents new avenues for customers to leverage the capabilities of SAP solutions while harnessing the power of AWS Cloud.

The two companies’ collaboration is geared towards assisting clients in achieving long-term business value by accelerating their cloud migration journeys. Combining SAP’s cloud technologies and NorthBay’s consulting services, the alliance also aims to help organisations maximise the value of their IT investments.

Commenting on the innovation partnership, Ahmad remarked:

“NorthBay Solutions is a strong partner to deliver SAP solutions on Cloud. Their advanced consulting and cloud migration expertise is exceptional in the market, and we look forward to harnessing the power of this partnership in the markets we serve.”

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