SAP China established the Dingge Awards to celebrate customers’ progress in business transformation leveraging SAP technologies. The awards aim to recognise firms in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong that have outperformed their competition, highlighting their digital transformation efforts in recent years. These organisations have built an effective strategy that has enabled them to take the lead in their respective product markets and sectors, while also taking into consideration the onset of the digital economy’s new customer needs, capabilities, key infrastructure, and industry best practices, among other factors. (InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.) 

Dr. Huang Chenhong, who officially took on the role of SAP Global Executive Vice President and President of Greater China in August last year, said in a statement:

“In line with the macro trends of digital economy, industrial synergy, and green development, ‘new Chinese enterprises’ are becoming full-data smart enterprises, full-link collaborative enterprises, and full-scale enterprises. SAP will continue to deepen the concept of ‘in China, for China’ and be the enabler of the digital transformation of ‘new Chinese enterprises’ in the cloud era.”

Commenting on the 2022 Dingge Award, he further shared:

“We look forward to discovering ‘new China’ through the ‘Dingge Award’ — the company’s digital transformation pioneer — sharing successful experience, leading the transformation and upgrading of the industry, and jointly promoting high-quality development through innovation.”

Dingge: SAP Digital Transformation Awards for Intelligent Enterprises

This year’s “Dingge Awards” are sponsored by China’s Harvard Business Review and SAP, with academic support provided by the Global Business Research Institute of Tsinghua University, which is highly important in the industry. It has been conducted for five consecutive years now and has attracted over 500 enterprises and more than 1,000 projects to showcase their initiatives. Remarkable customer cases in the past include National Energy Group, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), Mindray Medical, Anhui Heli, Juhua Group, Xiaomi and other companies that have exhibited innovation through SAP solutions.

According to Professor Li Donghong from the Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, the SAP digital transformation awards are given to those that successfully create value through digital transformation, sustain innovation, and have a beneficial impact on industrial change. He added:

“I look forward to working with many experts this year to visit and investigate more innovative companies, to learn more about the significance of digital transformation of companies for industrial chain innovation and green and sustainable development, and to further deepen the understanding of research on the digital transformation of Chinese enterprises.”

This year, several new customers signed up for the German enterprise software giant’s cloud services. The Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS) offering RISE with SAP was particularly popular in Q1 along with other solutions including SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), SAP S/4HANA, SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (SAP iRPA), SAP Sales Cloud, SAP Commerce Cloud, and SAP Ariba.

However, Liu Xiao, Co-Producer and General Manager of the Chinese Edition of Harvard Business Review, believes that there is still a long way for the business community to realise the value and inevitability of digital transformation and to truly complete digital practice.

“I sincerely hope that this year’s ‘Dingge Award’ will be held successfully, and look forward to more ‘new Chinese enterprises’ to become role models and benchmarks for China’s digital transformation,” Liu Xiao concluded.

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India continues to be one of SAP’s fastest-growing markets globally, according to Kulmeet Bawa, President and Managing Director at SAP Indian Subcontinent. The country’s cloud first mindset, abundant opportunities, and demographic dividend are among the reasons why the German tech giant considers it very important, Bawa said in an interview with ETGovernment.

SAP’s commitment to invest INR 500 crore (€55 million) in India is centred around delivering transformation in the cloud. The investment, which is projected to boost demand for cloud services in India, is also expected to increase local companies’ confidence in venturing into mid-market businesses.

As one of the leading business-to-business cloud providers, SAP’s investment and the introduction of other programs including RISE with SAP will work towards addressing customer demands in India.

During a SAPPHIRE NOW 2021 session, SAP APJ President Paul Marriott joined the SAP India MD to talk about the future of Indian businesses in a networked economy. Marriott stated:

“As India reopens and our businesses reopen, we are going to be shifting from surviving to thriving, and I believe now is truly the time to digitise. With RISE with SAP, we are taking the mission-critical processes and making them digital and in the cloud.”

Marriott further shared that accelerating cloud growth is essential to SAP’s overall strategy, adding that the company needs to “provide safe passage for every existing SAP ERP customer to RISE with SAP.”

“We will partner with the ecosystem and underpin all our innovation with our SAP Business Technology Platform to build new applications and drive innovation in Asia for the entire world,” he maintained.

Supporting Indian Enterprises through SAP Digital Transformation Solutions

Moreover, Bawa recognises that more Indian companies are deciding to run enterprise computing in the cloud now that digital transformation has become mission-critical than ever before. The SAP Indian leader stated:

“RISE with SAP is Business Transformation as a Service that serves as an enabler for companies to accelerate and simplify their transformations beyond just a technical migration and advance themselves digitally in their cloud journey.”

In addition, companies across all sectors in India are benefiting from successful digital transformation initiatives from SAP. One of these includes Vikran Engineering & Exim Pvt Ltd, a fast-growing engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company in the power sector. Since implementing RISE with SAP, the company’s Director Nakul Markhedkar said they were able to transform their business processes. 

“In our endeavour to become a leader in EPC industries, it was important for us to streamline and set up our business processes in a way that helped us access all our projects anytime, anywhere. SAP’s cloud ERP solution provides us with that flexibility and enables us to seamlessly access all our business functions and data on a single platform in real-time,” Markhedkar further explained.

Meanwhile, vertically integrated pharmaceutical company RA Chem Pharma Ltd was also one of the first few to implement SAP’s Business Transformation as a Service offering. The company’s CIO Venkat Srinivas further shared: 

“By adopting RISE with SAP, we have taken a significant step towards our digital transformation journey. This will enable us to build a strong foundation in India’s pharmaceutical industry and support our vision of providing quality, affordable and innovative solutions in medicine and treatment.” 

Furthermore, the following enterprises are also leveraging RISE with SAP to gain greater flexibility and scalability in today’s fast-changing market conditions:

• Ola Electric Mobility Pvt Ltd
• Wakefit Innovations Pvt Ltd
• Neogen Chemicals Ltd
• KLT Automotive and Tubular Products Ltd
• Pacific Development Corporation Ltd

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