By deploying RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure, electronics manufacturer Wistron Corporation harnesses the power of the cloud to improve the flexibility of the organization’s global layout and quickly drive digital business transformation.
Wistron Corporation operates out of Taiwan and serves the electronics industry. The firm acts as a “original design manufacturer,” or ODM, creating products that are then licensed to other businesses. Wistron Corporation and its affiliated companies and subsidiaries strive to keep their position as an industry frontrunner in IT. Its members offer a wide range of communications, components, and software solutions to the industrial market.
As a leading provider of worldwide index information and communication products, Wistron Corporation is aware of the dynamic nature of the global market and its corresponding regulatory framework. As time has progressed, the company has spent heavily in research and development (R&D) for new technologies, growth for emerging markets, and diversification for all of its corporate activities.
This time around, Wistron Corporation decided to modernize its enterprise resource planning (ERP) by implementing RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure. According to SAP Taiwan’s press release, the SAP project is aimed at bolstering the Wistron Corporation’s adaptability and responsiveness in preparation for digital transformation. (InsideSAP Asia often references articles from websites in other languages to bring you as much information as possible.)
Wistron Corporation and its subsidiary Wistron Information Technology reevaluated the operational process and the applicability of the group’s information systems through SAP S/4HANA Cloud ERP to help connect the relevant data of each process’ endpoint, enhance the visibility of the overall business, as well as provide significantly greater and more flexible decision-making capabilities for the rapidly evolving business group.
According to Shen Qingyao, General Manager at Wistron Information Technology, a large factory like their company can benefit from moving their ERP system to the cloud, revamping their internal processes, and assessing the efficacy of their ERP’s peripheral information system. From there, he explained that they can optimize and strengthen the integration of each system and ERP individually, create a robust digital hub, and integrate all of their data together.
Following the announcement, Wistron Corporation has now joined the growing list of SAP cloud customer base in Taiwan, where companies are increasingly turning to SAP solutions and technologies in order to provide a solid digital groundwork for their operations. In particular, the Business Transformation as a Service (BTaaS) signature cloud offering RISE with SAP has been widely adopted across the region for its comprehensive solution that includes analytics, business process intelligence (SAP BPI), and features of the powerful SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) — ultimately enabling customers to become sustainable, intelligent enterprises.
Deploying RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure to Drive Transformation
As a result of the massive impact that technology is having on every sector of the economy, businesses and other organizations are searching for the right platforms and reliable partners to assist them in accelerating their digital transformation. With this, SAP and Microsoft are building on their long-standing strategic partnership to leverage each other’s respective products to not only drive their own companies, but also to enable their joint enterprise customers to operate their mission-critical workloads and applications with RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure.
Sharing his thoughts about the advantages of the cloud for business transformation, Microsoft Taiwan General Manager Bian Zhixiang emphasized the need for digital resilience for businesses to keep their competitive edge in today’s fast-paced global market. He maintained that the cloud’s defining features — including its speed of deployment, adaptability, and security — serve as crucial foundations for businesses. While digital transformation is necessary, Zhixiang also stressed the importance of resilience in mitigating operational risks.
Further commenting on the collaboration with SAP, Zhixiang noted:
“I am very happy to cooperate with SAP to assist Wistron in deploying RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure to accelerate the process of Wistron’s digital transformation. Microsoft will continue to use innovative technologies to empower Taiwan’s industries to accelerate transformation and achieve more accomplishments.”
Meanwhile, Chen Zhiwei, Global Vice President of SAP and General Manager of Taiwan, supported Zhixiang’s statements, saying that data is the bedrock upon which the modern digital economy is built. In order to succeed, he believes that businesses need to be able to handle their data in real time while also making it fully transparent to all employees.
“Wistron has promoted transformation over the years. The determination and achievements of Wistron are obvious to all. This time, Wistron chose to upgrade RISE with SAP to create a new digital core and make decisions based on that,” Zhiwei remarked.
