Heidelberg, Germany | Singapore, October 13, 2022 – EXA is an SNP company and leading provider of transformation solutions in financial management that focuses on the areas of operational transfer pricing and global value chains. Now, SNP has announced the launch of EXA’s next-generation Product Carbon Footprint solution: SNP PCF is a cradle-to-gate solution that builds a global bill of material for each product based on finance and logistics data from source SAP ERP systems. This allows to assign carbon emissions to the most granular level of activities such as procurement of each material from external suppliers as well as every value-added activity within the company.

Gerald Faust, MD & CEO, Asia Pacific Japan and Middle East, SNP, says,

“SNP PCF is a new milestone in the continued expansion of SNP’s software portfolio in the SAP environment, which already includes data transformation, data management and analytics. With the new solution, SNP is contributing to the world’s target of reducing the carbon footprint by 45 percent and achieving net zero by 2050.”

Divya Vir Rastogi, CEO and co-founder of EXA, adds, “there is an urgent need for manufacturers to address the challenge of decarbonisation. Proper carbon footprint determination and management not only happens at the level of single products, but down to the level of each individual material and production activity. Only then, carbon emissions can be assigned correctly and rolled up to the product level. While carbon emission values can be secured from suppliers or from LCA databases, companies can assign actual emission values to various activities. Most industry sectors struggle with getting reliable and verifiable data to build global bill of materials to quantify CO₂ emissions for their products. SNP PCF delivers the data they need and helps quantifying greenhouse emissions associated with products.”

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 1,300 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenues of around EUR 167 million in the 2021 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).

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Although conventional SAP S/4HANA implementations are a combination of technical migration and business transformation, SAP customers usually approach these projects separately. For many, the move to the cloud is still purely a question of infrastructure. This is a shame, since a combined move to SAP S/4HANA and the cloud offers companies several advantages at once: digitalization of the IT landscape with high innovation potential, new components and shorter workflows. In addition, companies benefit from lower project costs, shorter project durations and fewer system failures during the implementation.

According to the Benchmark Report published by SAPinsider in November 2021, SAP customers mostly focus on costs (46 percent) and SAP S/4HANA Cloud (39 percent). They are currently less interested in the other parts of the Business Process Intelligence program, embedded tools, industry enhancements, SAP BTP and SAP Business Network.

SAP users are taking advantage of the migration to modernize their existing IT landscapes and at the same time prepare themselves for fully digitalized working environments. In addition, by moving to SAP S/4HANA and the cloud, they can combine two strategic transformation projects and reduce the overall workload. Project managers should allow sufficient time for systematic planning and avoid making rash decisions. So what do companies need to consider when they decide to move their systems, data and applications to SAP S/4HANA Cloud?

Gerald Faust, managing director and CEO – Asia Pacific and Middle East, SNP, said, “In moving to the cloud with SAP S/4HANA through RISE with SAP, organisations can redesign their processes leveraging retained historical data to better align to an entirely new business environment. To support this transition, SNP’s packaged solutions provide rapid implementation based on a proven methodology and a predefined scope, combined with clear and predictable implementation without the usual risk. There is no one size-fits-all formula for organisations undergoing a cloud transformation journey, however when a solution is tailored to meet the organisation’s goals the impact is significant.

This is inline with our own learning, as we walk the talk and move to the cloud with RISE with SAP. SNP has chosen to implement SAP S/4HANA® Cloud, private edition on Microsoft Azure. SNP aims to successfully complete the move to the cloud in just two months by the end of April 2022 and the Datavard integration in a total of five months by the end of July 2022.”

Good Planning Is The Key to Success

To develop the ideal SAP S/4HANA Cloud strategy, companies should first identify their own drivers for wanting to use the cloud. Companies want to free themselves from the burden of a large, on-premises data center and find a simpler, scalable alternative that allows them to save costs or respond to unexpected events in an agile manner.

Furthermore, companies have to gain an overview of their current IT landscape: How big is the system? What data and applications are used? Is it possible to move the entire system or only certain parts? Would this even be allowed and should it take place? Based on this information, companies can plan the project carefully and in line with their corporate strategy, decide on the ideal cloud infrastructure, and select a suitable provider.

Another key factor is finding the right model to deploy SAP S/4HANA Cloud as part of RISE with SAP. The software provider offers two models for this purpose: SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition and Public Cloud Edition. Most SAP user companies are interested in the private cloud. It is primarily aimed at medium-sized and large companies that need to adapt SAP S/4HANA to their requirements and utilize enhancements. The well-known hyper scalers Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM and Microsoft operate the SAP systems. The public cloud is aimed at SAP customers who want to use the standard version of SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The cloud solution does not allow for any customizing and is therefore particularly suitable for smaller SAP user companies with less complex processes or for new companies. The advantage is that they can achieve the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).

Allow Sufficient Time to Prepare

Ideally, companies will lay the groundwork in parallel: Many of our customer projects have shown that it is worth cleaning up the existing SAP landscape before the migration. If companies can reduce the data volume in their systems, they will need less cloud storage at a later date, resulting in considerable cost savings. It is also worth aiming for fewer non-production systems such as development and quality assurance systems. This cost-cutting potential is often overlooked, and it can be leveraged more easily than the costs saved by archiving in the production system, or indeed implemented in addition.

Lower Costs, Less Risk? Absolutely!

The next step for companies is to carefully consider the question of how to realize the migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud at the technical level. This crucial decision has a significant impact on the success of the project. It is advisable to use transformation software and an automated procedure. This enables companies to migrate data particularly quickly and securely while also avoiding long system downtimes, as it is necessary to stop business processes during the conversion for technical reasons. In particular, for highly customer-oriented companies with continuous operations and those with global operations, it is important to keep system downtimes to a minimum, since they quickly lead to enormous costs. A direct comparison shows how much the downtime can vary depending on the approach: A modern migration approach enables SAP systems to be converted with near-zero downtime, allowing operations to continue largely without disruption. In contrast, the same data migration using a standard approach would take significantly longer than a weekend and render the IT system unavailable throughout this period.

The chosen software solution should also provide companies with a glimpse into the future: How will the planned changes affect their systems? By simulating these changes before the actual migration, companies can minimize costs and risks and always maintain control of their major project.

Learning from Mistakes? Don’t Make Any in the First Place

When complex SAP systems and processes are moved to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, serious errors can sometimes occur. Those who deal with possible pitfalls in advance are clearly at an advantage. For example, it is important for companies to consider the interfaces that exchange information with internal and external communication partners. There are often several thousand of these digital connection points, all of which need to be identified before a migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud and converted or updated during the project. This is the only way to ensure uninterrupted communication between employees as well as with partners, suppliers and customers. In addition, companies are well advised to set aside sufficient resources for test phases with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. To plan or document a migration properly and to ensure that balance sheets are not distorted, close coordination with auditors is a must, especially when migrating financial systems.

If everything has been considered, well planned and prepared, companies can move to SAP S/4HANA and the cloud quickly and securely while also unlocking the full innovation potential of the new technology.

Regional Contact: Priya Sharma,
Head – Marketing, JAPAC & MEA, SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd.

For any questions connect at:
marketing-asia@snpgroup.com or +65 98209905.

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March 15, 2022 – SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE, a world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations in the SAP environment, has achieved certification of its BLUEFIELD™ Powered by CrystalBridge solution from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

PwC has comprehensively audited the SNP solution BLUEFIELD™ Powered by CrystalBridge. For the certification, SNP simulated a selective transformation from SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) to SAP S/4HANA with many demos. The auditors monitored the process during the audit and confirmed the procedure. For this purpose, SNP demonstrated a wide range of transformation scenarios. In addition to the result of the audit, the audit report also contains a comprehensive description of SNP’s software and approach, explaining how transformations are performed with BLUEFIELD™ Powered by CrystalBridge.

The audit was conducted in accordance with the International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3000 (Revised).

Gregor Stöckler, chief operating officer, SNP, said, “SNP is delighted that PwC was able to complete the audit of the BLUEFIELD approach that we developed and established in the market as well as our transformation software. The audit report summarises the auditors’ findings on the suitability of SNP’s procedure and on the fulfilment of the transformation objectives to serve as proof for our customers. It provides even more transparency for SAP user companies, letting them take full advantage of the added value SNP’s leading solution offers for SAP-centric transformations.”

There used to be two classic migration approaches in the SAP market: greenfield, primarily for new implementations of SAP solutions; and brownfield, primarily for the transformation of existing SAP landscapes. SNP developed a third approach many years ago: BLUEFIELD™. To achieve this, SNP combined the two classic approaches by selecting the best parts of greenfield and brownfield. Today, BLUEFIELD™ is a globally established approach within the SAP community that serves as a solution for existing SAP customers.

After completing over 14,500 projects, SNP knows that business transformations can be complex and sometimes even mission-critical. Currently, there is high demand for scenarios involving mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and moves to SAP S/4HANA and the cloud. These scenarios impose high requirements on the quality of the software that implements such change processes.

With this in mind, SNP had its BLUEFIELD™ approach and CrystalBridge transformation software audited with regard to the following key transformation objectives: the transformation is complete and correct according to the customer’s specifications; the migrated data is consistent; and the transformation is fully documented in an understandable way. Now, the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has recently “certified” SNP’s approach and transformation software.

With this in mind, SNP had its BLUEFIELD™ approach and CrystalBridge transformation software audited with regard to the following key transformation objectives: the transformation is complete and correct according to the customer’s specifications; the migrated data is consistent; and the transformation is fully documented in an understandable way. Now, the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has recently “certified” SNP’s approach and transformation software.

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™ 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 preliminary revenues of around EUR 166 million in the 2021 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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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 / Mumbai, India, September 29, 2021 – SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE, a world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations in the SAP environment, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization have entered into a global partnership agreement, aimed at driving business transformations for global organizations.

Through this strategic global partnership, SNP and TCS will jointly conceptualize, build, and help enterprises transform through an automated and software-based approach by using SNP CrystalBridge®, a data transformation platform. TCS will leverage its contextual knowledge and expertise in digital technologies to augment SNP CrystalBridge® and accelerate client business transformation journeys.

Akhilesh Tiwari, Global Head, Enterprise Application Services, TCS, said, “Together, TCS and SNP have delivered many customer successes and we are delighted to expand this partnership further. TCS’ intellectual property and SNP’s software combined with our collective knowledge create a unique competitive differentiation and will enable measurable business outcomes for customers as well as accelerate their business transformation journeys and drive purpose-led growth.”

Michael Eberhardt, CEO of SNP, adds: “We have worked with TCS successfully for various customers in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing and mining industries. Now we are consolidating our cooperation through a strategic global partnership. This allows us to bundle our expertise even better, which benefits our customers worldwide. Our software optimally complements TCS’ service offering, and we are proud that TCS will use our CrystalBridge® software for SAP transformation projects. Together, we will support global companies in business transformations such as mergers and acquisitions, cloud migration, or SAP S/4HANA implementations. We have strong interest from the market and look forward to collaborating on many future projects.”

“The partnership with TCS is another important step in our partner strategy,” emphasizes Lutz Lambrecht, Vice President of SNP Global Partner Management. “Alliances with strong partners help customers worldwide to implement very complex IT and business transformations quickly and securely. But they also ensure that we will be there to support them in the face of future challenges. After all, our long-term goal is to share knowledge and work together with our partners on new solutions using our platform approach, so that we can continue to meet changing requirements in the future.”

TCS helps customers evaluate newer digital offerings such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP® Customer Experience solutions, SAP SuccessFactors® solutions, SAP Ariba® solutions, and SAP® Business Technology Platform, to define their roadmap, architecture and strategy. TCS’ innovation and demo centers in Cincinnati-US, Paris-France, Mumbai-India and Tokyo-Japan help customers gain a first-hand experience of SAP’s new products and global innovations through a digital transformation ecosystem. TCS leverages its intellectual property and assets such as TCS Enterprise Navigator, TCS Crystallus and TCS ConvertCore as part of a comprehensive approach to modernize enterprise businesses, helping them shape business ecosystems and adopt new business models in their perpetual growth and transformation journeys.

Over the next few months, TCS and SNP plan to host a virtual webinar to showcase their joint capabilities and customer case studies.

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 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.

About Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata group, India’s largest multinational business group, TCS has over 500,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $22.2 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and is listed on the BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock Exchange) in India. TCS’ proactive stance on climate change and award-winning work with communities across the world have earned it a place in leading sustainability indices such as the MSCI Global Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit www.tcs.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.”

Learn more in the whitepaper Remote Migration – Switch to SAP S/4HANA at any time

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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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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Singapore, May 3, 2021 – SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE, a world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations, has developed a new solution package for moving SAP landscapes to the cloud in a simple and predictable manner. The cloud migration package is based on the data transformation platform CrystalBridge^®, which automates the migration of SAP systems to the cloud, therefore providing a fast and secure move. The package includes all costs that are necessary for a successful data migration – software licenses and consulting services – and the fixed price ensures highly reliable planning. In addition, the package enables a particularly fast move to the cloud thanks to SNP’s flexible, software-based approach: Depending on the complexity and requirements, the time between the performing the assessment and gaining access to the migrated SAP systems in the cloud is often less than six months.

The cloud migration package is designed to map most diverse scenarios even with varying complexities. The package enables a 1:1 migration of SAP landscapes to the cloud (“lift and shift”) along with the necessary SAP upgrades of the ECC systems, operating system and database changes, and even Unicode conversions. The add-ons offered are a selective data migration to the cloud and a migration to SAP S/4HANA in a cloud environment, respectively. In addition, companies have the option to add downtime optimization and the creation of a proof of concept for a test system. If additional functions are required, the package can be supplemented with further services and software modules from SNP. The offer is aimed at both direct customers and partner companies, which can include the package in their offerings.

“Our end-to-end cloud migration package enables customers and partners to move to the cloud quickly, securely and in a highly automated manner with CrystalBridge^®,” says Gerald Faust, Managing Director & CEO, JAPAC, SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd. “We are confident that our fixed price package is the ideal solution for every SAP customer in the Asia Pacific Japan and Middle East region as it reduces complexity and enables delivering high business performance at the same time: customers benefit from highly reliable planning and won’t experience any unpleasant surprises during the migration project. With that companies get exactly the security they need to take the step into the cloud and the next step in order to become an intelligent enterprise.”

“Our primary goal in developing the cloud migration package was to provide customers and partners with simplified and risk-free approach” adds Tarik Husain, Vice President, Strategic Sales, JAPAC, SNP Transformations SEA Pte Ltd. “Partners can seamlessly integrate this package into their own offerings to provide users with an optimal end-to-end solution. At the same time, customers can see clear benefits from our unique approach. Many want to go to cloud but are concerned about risk, what interfaces they have, project timelines and even what the real cost benefits are. Our approach overcomes all these challenges. This provides a clear and simple path for moving to the cloud.”

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SNP The Data Transformation Company | SAP Transformation, Automated (snpgroup.com)
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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 1,400 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenues of around EUR 143 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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In this article, Matt shares findings, insights and perspectives from the online session and further explores the relevance of SAP data transformation projects in 2021 and beyond.

Without transforming core processes and entrenched mindsets augmented by the modernisation of incumbent and increasingly unwieldy applications, many of us will face continued friction delivering on our increasingly cloud-first, digitally driven data transformation strategies.

The last 12 months have provided a fantastic cultural opportunity to change mindsets around how we work and challenge static practices and investments from the past with all its challenges.

Technology and business leaders in ADAPT’s extensive ANZ research community remain under immense pressure balancing ongoing and unpredictable lockdowns, remote workforce productivity, and increased budgetary scrutiny. While we still face the need to improve operationally and completely rethink how we gather, manage and act on data in our quest to become data-driven organisations and businesses.

Data assets from core ERP, CRM and HR business applications holds a wealth of deep strategic insights that could better connect the organisation and enhance visibility to make critical business decisions and emerge from the current situation smarter and stronger.

This highlights the need to demonstrate how we are leveraging the value from existing investments, modernising core apps, enabling rapid innovation, and leveraging new cloud offerings and pricing models.

“If workplace transformation was the number one digital transformation initiative at the height of the pandemic, 2021 will increasingly be all about data transformation”.

Challenge and solution

ERP at the heart of legacy headaches – cloud makes its mark.

IT and business leaders have consistently told ADAPT they want to invest in technologies that improve business outcomes and operational effectiveness whilst reducing legacy reliance.

During the past two years across all its Edge events, ADAPT has been mapping the progression of cloud. Today we see 32{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of all workloads in the public cloud, increasing to 42{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} in 2022.

Many organisations are not as concerned as they used to be about moving mission-critical workloads, such as ERP into the cloud.

That said, when polling delegates at a recent ADAPT/Fujitsu/SNP webinar, 58{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of attendees were still at the planning stage to migrate SAP workloads to the cloud as illustrated below:

Pre-migration, critical considerations

• Gain a clear understanding of just what is deployed within the organisation.
• Create a risk profile of current assets and workloads.
• Understand what is holding us back from moving these mission-critical workloads to the cloud, and are they founded on fact or legacy mindsets?
• Be clear on where you stand to move forward with the changes required – what is your baseline appetite for change? If it’s too high, determine how it can be lowered.
• Identify the outcomes-based business pre-requisites first, then invest the time in the assessment phase to understand how we can align every decision and step to line up to those business outcomes.
• Look on SAP as a part of the overall application landscape, look for interdependencies and synergies. The assessment phase to meet business outcomes should encompass your entire application landscape and prioritise workloads cloud migration accordingly.
• Governance and compliance have taken on increased focus and attention in Australia since the Financial Services Royal Commission, which served as a wakeup call for all industry sectors. Assess and plan for each use case’s regulatory requirements individually and in their entirety.
• The business case or outcome should always be the driver; the forced migration to move off SAP by 2027 drives users to mistakenly make this another tech project. It should be a strategic, transformative initiative that enables the next phase of business growth in two very distinct phases: Migrate workloads to the cloud & Implement cloud-enabled migration to S/4 HANA.

Major data transformation project drivers in 2021

IT spending remains be conservative and under immense scrutiny, predicating the need to ensure typical investment justification questions are addressed, such as:

• How will it help drive business and employee resilience?
• How will it help improve operational efficiency and effectiveness?
• How will it enable our employees and enhance their overall employee experience?
• How will it help us differentiate our products and services?
• How will it help us optimise and ultimately help us save time, money, and resources?

Many of these areas are driving Australian and New Zealand organisations in their quest to become data-driven organisations. However, we are still hamstrung with disaggregated and unstructured data in ever-increasing volumes.

In a post-pandemic world, resilience, efficiency, employee retention and well-being, differentiated products and services are more critical than ever. So too is the data we need to make the right decisions to deliver on these areas.

No business is immune from this. However, there will be those clear leaders prepared for and willing to take the data transformation plunge and investment, particularly in an environment where mergers, acquisitions and demergers accelerate and act as drivers for these many complex SAP data transformation and rationalisation projects.

Balancing risk with benefits amidst ongoing pandemic fuelled uncertainty

Attracting and retaining the right talent in a post-pandemic world will be a critical challenge and focus for many organisations, particularly as it relates to data, analytics, and areas related to AI, machine learning and cloud migration initiatives.

It is clear; there are not enough people on the planet to meet the increasing demand associated with these areas and to simply “get these jobs done”.

As organisations prioritise investment and associated business outcomes that many of these data and cloud transformation projects relate to, the pressure to act and invest sooner rather than later will only increase.

De-risking transformation is key, ensuring business resilience during the transformation as well as post-implementation, is key. When a Telco in Malaysia, for example, is quoted seven days of downtime associated with an SAP cloud migration initiative, this is simply not good enough.

IT decision-makers need to expect but demand that the impact on their business during such an initiative is minimal. Leadership teams or boards will barely consider hours let alone days of downtime.

Partnering with third-party providers, particularly when we face continued limitations on resource availability due to corporate and government-mandated travel restrictions will be key to success.

Partners and vendors who have the strongest focus and capabilities related to automation are likely better placed to help organisations effectively execute these projects, in this remote and resource-constrained world.

If business downtime is one of the major challenges – how can we mitigate and reduce downtime?

It is standard practice for the cutover manager to come onboard in traditional projects, sometimes as much as halfway through the project.

Involve the business, the cutover manager and key stakeholder early, related to the benefits to be achieved, and potential disruption/change employees will face.

Typically, transformation projects involve, separating your data from the business logic. In other words, in most SAP data migration projects, all the data is loaded and then shifted across in one go.

A best practice approach is to not take the production system down at any stage. Instead, a copy or ‘Rapid Empty Shell’ is created.  The data is then brought across incrementally, pre-determined based on time – perhaps a months’ worth or weeks’ worth at a time. The final stage involves the last few hours, limiting potential downtime to a matter of hours at the most.

ADAPT Perspectives

Most organisations successfully transformed the workplace, the workforce, and their customers during the darkest days of the pandemic. By and large, this was done with existing technology and capabilities – albeit at a scale never imagined.

What we have seen is a willingness to accept change and challenge legacy mindsets and processes. We have a fantastic opportunity to innovate and rapidly transform many of our core, yet entrenched approaches.

In September 2020 over 200 ANZ IT and business leaders from many of the region’s largest organisations told ADAPT they would increase innovation.

As illustrated below, 59{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of organisations told ADAPT they expect increased rates of innovation and a significant increase in associated funding.

Particularly as it relates to products and services being transformed digitally to help them build data-driven organisations and improve operational efficiencies.

A second question posed to delegates during the webinar was designed to understand just which business scenarios were critical to their data transformation efforts in the coming months, as shown below.

The key to working towards success in these scenarios with partners is a common go-to-market approach focused on what the business is seeking to achieve – business first, technology second.

The four key points to consider when looking at any business scenario are:

1. Early engagement is crucial.
2. Having a clear vision – or destination postcard with exact steps to getting there identified.
3. Where do you stand today compared to where you want to get to and is the business on   board?
4. Make sure you have business buy-in and executive sponsorship.

“The pandemic has seen a drastic shift in our thinking related to traditional and long-term supply chains that were stressed and failed in many situations.”

There is increasing carve out and merger and acquisitions, associated with the moving around and re-prioritisation of supply chains.

The move to S4 has been forced on organisations; we all must make that shift; we must start implementing the changes and strategies for that move. Automation can accelerate that move and should be a key consideration as organisations embark on their migration strategy, potentially reducing the move to a matter of months.

While the polling percentages were different when it came to the business scenarios, 50{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} for S/4 HANA and 33{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} for the move to the cloud, they are not mutually exclusive. Most customers should look to move to cloud and S/4 HANA at the same time.

Modernise, rationalise and future proof mission-critical workloads

ERP was created to provide business leaders with a consolidated view of their organisation’s performance. These systems were built around a group of tightly integrated modules so transactions recorded in one part of the business would automatically flow through. For example, a front of house sale would automatically reduce stock in hand in the inventory system.

However, over time they have become inflexible and unwieldy, particularly as ever-increasing amounts of, often unstructured, data has been added to the mix.

If legacy modernisation is a goal for most organisations ADAPT speaks to, data transformation and the ability to change entrenched mindsets is key.

In this next normal of a “post-pandemic” world, flexibility is a non-negotiable across the business spectrum.

“Flexibility and agility are critical to enabling organisations to move quickly in such areas as mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and divesting business units and introducing new product lines.”

Mission-critical workloads that curtail flexibility and our ability to become truly data-driven businesses must be considered ripe for migration to the cloud. We must ensure that we modernise, rationalise, and emerge from the pandemic more agile, nimble, and no longer weighed down by the legacy headaches of yesterday.

This article was written by Matt Boon, Director of Strategic Research at ADAPT and is sponsored by SNP.

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