Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP, often referred to as Deloitte India, has yet again demonstrated its commitment to delivering top-notch solutions, especially for enterprise customers. In a recent announcement, the firm has unveiled a collaboration with SAP India. This strategic partnership is aimed at making innovation more accessible by leveraging the power of leading-edge cloud-based technologies.

SAP and Deloitte have a rich history of collaboration, shared vision, and mutual growth. These industry giants have worked hand in hand for many years, contributing to various successful projects and striding forward in unison toward a digitally progressive future. This partnership has consistently paved the way for enterprise customers to stay ahead of the curve by embracing advanced digital solutions.

SAP, proficient in creating software solutions, has established itself as a global leader, while Deloitte, a globally renowned consulting firm, has a proven track record in providing exceptional management consulting services. This strategic SAP collaboration is the latest milestone in the partnership, which promises to offer customers an innovative OEM agreement intended to digitally transform their business processes. Leveraging Deloitte’s solutions and maximising the impact with SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP) would be at the core of this transformative initiative.

This collaboration aims to bring about a faster go-to-market movement, making cutting-edge technologies such as generative AI, business AI, machine learning, and automation more readily accessible to enterprises.

Deloitte-SAP Collaboration Enabling Enterprise Innovation

The SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) has been instrumental in transforming the way businesses operate. This innovative Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering amalgamates several key technologies into a single, unified environment. SAP BTP brings together data and analytics, artificial intelligence, low-code, pro-code, and no-code app development, automation, and integration. The SAP collaboration will enable enterprises to innovate on top of their existing SAP installations by extending and integrating new applications and systems on SAP BTP.

Anand Rajagopalan, Partner at Deloitte India, has been instrumental in guiding this collaboration. Rajagopalan has a vision for solutions that not only drive innovation but also contribute to broader goals of sustainability and responsible business practices.

Rajagopalan believes that Deloitte India’s expertise in sustainability, when combined with SAP technology, can create value for users. Aligning with this vision, the SAP collaboration plans to develop a platform where sustainability and business innovation go hand in hand. Rajagopalan emphasized the importance of sustainability and technology working together to create not just economic value but societal value as well.

Creating a Ripple Effect: The Expected Impact of the Partnership

Under Rajagopalan’s leadership, this collaboration between Deloitte India and SAP is expected to have a significant impact on enterprise customers. Its primary goal is to assist customers in their digital transformation journeys by offering robust, state-of-the-art technological solutions.

Furthermore, the collaboration promises to deliver faster time-to-market, a critical factor in today’s fast-paced business environment. This could potentially encourage more enterprises to implement innovative solutions and accelerate their digital transformation strategies.

In essence, the Deloitte India and SAP collaboration is a strategic move aimed at reinforcing both companies’ commitment to promoting digital transformation and advancing technology. By making the most of their combined expertise and robust digital solutions, the two giants aim to help enterprise customers stay innovative, competitive, and sustainable. It will be interesting to see how this collaboration shapes the future of enterprise innovation as the companies strive to create meaningful, lasting impact in the digital landscape.

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In 2018, SAP launched SAP Skills University Singapore Programme, a collaborative effort with SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) and participating Polytechnics, to drive and support the national SkillsFuture movement. The training program being held at Temasek Polytechnic offers comprehensive courses that involve SAP technologies such as SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors solutions, SAP cloud platform, and many more.

Fast- forward to 2020, SAP’s revolutionary partnership with SkillsFuture Singapore and Temasek Polytechnic continues, this time focusing on the mid-career jobseekers in growth industries like the financial and technology sectors in the city-state. Within the framework of the SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package, the three organisations launched three new courses to reskill, upskill, and increase the employability of 510 mid-career professionals when they re-enter the workforce.

Explaining more about the recent development, Eileen Chua, Managing Director at SAP Singapore said:

“As local businesses transform their business models and offerings to mitigate the pandemic’s impact, this is also creating new opportunities and skills demand in areas such as financial intelligence, forecasting, and business modelling.

Businesses want the visibility and assurance that their operational shifts will materialize in long-term profitability and seek to limit any uncertainty. The new courses under the SGUnited Mid-Career Pathways Programme in collaboration with SSG and Temasek Polytechnic provides job seekers with a fresh, highly-employable financial and data-led skillsets that also help local enterprises drive future growth.”

Upskilling with SkillsFuture Singapore and Temasek Polytechnic

SAP’s collaboration with SkillsFuture Singapore and Temasek Polytechnic reflects the tech giant’s commitment to helping Singaporeans reskill and upskill even in these challenging times.

Liher Urbizu, SVP and Head of Services, SAP Asia Pacific & Japan, highlighted that the COVID-19 pandemic has further intensified the need for training and reskilling, especially in terms of continuous software training and enablement.

“Businesses and individuals require training that is relevant both in content and format to adapt to current and future needs, to emerge stronger. By bringing SAP’s global experience of delivering training and certification programmes to the SGUnited Mid-Career Pathways programme, we are proud to be able to contribute to building the resiliency of the nation,” he stressed.

Ong Tze Ch’in, Chief Executive of SSG, and Peter Lam, Principal & CEO of Temasek Polytechnic, both shared the confidence in partnering with SAP, through the SGUnited Mid-Career Pathways Programme, in paving the way for mid-career individuals to gain industry-relevant training and experience, and boost their employability in the ICT sector.

Three Tracks

The new courses under the SGUnited Mid-Career Pathways Programme focus on course-based learning developed by SAP and Temasek Polytechnic along with vocational training and industry case studies with 50 of SAP’s local customers and industry partners– including Accenture, Alpha ORI, NCS, Panasonic, SAP Labs India, SATS, Serial System, Syniti and T-Systems– to meet the growing demand for critical skills in data-led financial insights, predictive forecasting, and digital capabilities.

The three courses that incorporate today’s COViD-19 challenges are:

• Financial Accounting – focus on deriving real-time intelligence and insights on a company’s financial performance to stakeholders, given the fluidity of the current business climate amidst COVID-19, by leveraging a broad range of basic to advanced accounting functions using SAP S/4HANA.
• Management Accounting – focus on data-led financial insights and forecasts about business operations, enabling managers to make short and long-term decisions for the business to pursue its strategy and transformation amidst COVID-19. Using SAP S/4HANA, participants will learn how to draw intelligent insights, financial reporting, cost centre, and internal order accounting product cost planning, profitability analysis. 
• Data Science & Predictive Analytics – focus on the use of deep analysis of large sets of data, using statistical analysis and predictive modelling to determine future consequences for businesses as they shift business models and operations amidst COVID-19. The course will teach participants how to use automated analytic capabilities to develop predictive models within a data science project context using SAP S/4HANA. 

The participating companies will take in small batches of trainees for on-the-job training throughout the seven-month curriculum. The new courses are now open for registration and will run in batches from January 2021.

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