{"id":57575,"date":"2023-07-26T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=57575"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:24:00","slug":"sap-now-seasia-showcases-customers-with-future-proof-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2023\/07\/26\/sap-now-seasia-showcases-customers-with-future-proof-visions\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP NOW SEAsia showcases customers with future-proof visions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAP showcased a range of innovations with customers\u00a0 and partners, including Aboitiz InfraCapital, Changi Airport Group, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, Petrosea, ST Logistics, and Visa at its flagship\u00a0SAP NOW SEA\u00a0event in Singapore\u00a0 today.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event, hosted at the Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, brought together over 1000 customers, partners, and technology experts from around Southeast Asia (SEA) to discuss recently  announced SAP solutions like green ledger carbon accounting and Business AI, and spotlight how  organizations are leveraging SAP solutions and business networks to future-proof their businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at SAP NOW SEA, a range of companies shared their inspiring transformation journeys,  including: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Visa <\/strong>is collaborating with SAP to streamline and simplify business-to-business (B2B)  payments for enterprises of all sizes. The collaboration, led out of Asia Pacific, will embed  payments into the SAP ecosystem through SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP)  and deliver capabilities that help businesses route commercial payments to suppliers,  whether or not they accept card payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Metro Pacific Investments Corporation <\/strong>(MPIC), a leading infrastructure company became  the first business in the Philippines to implement RISE with SAP, streamlining its operations  and consolidating its enterprise resource planning systems under SAP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 A leader in the supply chain industry, ST Logistics <\/strong>chose RISE with SAP, SAP  SuccessFactors, and SAP BTP to power its three-year digital transformation plan, drive  operational excellence, and accelerate sustainable growth.  4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our mission in SEA is to uplift the lives of our region\u2019s 700 million people. At SAP, we are doing that\u00a0 in three ways \u2013 boosting innovation through new ideas like business AI, driving sustainable outcomes\u00a0 by investing in carbon accounting and the green ledger, and helping businesses future-proof their\u00a0 infrastructure for resiliency in the cloud,\u201d said\u00a0Verena Siow, President and Managing Director, SAP\u00a0 SEA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event follows the announcement of\u00a0SAP\u2019s Asia Pacific Q2 2023 earnings, noting significant cloud\u00a0 growth and highlighting new SEA customer wins and go-lives including Visa, Singtel, FGV IFFCO,\u00a0 and Aboitiz InfraCapital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Driving future-readiness with SAP partner ecosystem for the AI economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAP reinforced its commitment to partner innovation at SAP NOW SEA, helping businesses solve  their most pressing challenges in the AI economy. SAP welcomed Snehanshu Shah, Managing  Director for SAP at Google Cloud, to provide more details on SAP\u2019s expanded partnership with  Google Cloud. The partnership introduces a comprehensive open data offering that unites SAP with  Google Cloud\u2019s Data and Analytics Technology, unleashing the power of business data and  advancing enterprise AI development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B Capital Group,\u00a0a venture capital firm co-founded by Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly, and which\u00a0 invests in technology start-ups across the world, announced today that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SAP in Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) to help startups scale\u00a0 through technology innovation. Under the MoU, B Capital portfolio companies will gain access to\u00a0 SAP\u2019s industry expertise and global business networks to accelerate innovation, including areas such\u00a0 as AI and automation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asia\u2019s leading communications technology group Singte<\/a>l, also announced today that they are  collaborating with SAP to offer an end-to-end 5G Intelligent Edge Aggregator (IEA) solution to further<\/p>\n\n\n\n

enable enterprises to gain real-time intelligence and insights to help them make critical business  decisions. The solution, powered by SAP BTP, will be developed for computer vision, workplace  safety, and last mile delivery use cases, creating a framework that industry players and customers  can easily adapt and integrate with their backend systems and processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is clear we are at an inflection point, and the best way to Transform Tomorrow, Today, is through\u00a0 continual innovations: bringing expert partners, including customers themselves, together to\u00a0 collaborate and tap the power of the collective to thrive in the SEA digital economy,\u201d added\u00a0Siow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About SAP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAP\u2019s strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market  leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at  their best: SAP customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of  Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers\u2019 businesses into intelligent  enterprises. SAP helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration  that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can  consume our software the way they want \u2013 without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications  and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate  profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners,  employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAP showcased a range of innovations with customers\u00a0 and partners, including Aboitiz InfraCapital, Changi Airport Group, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, Petrosea, ST Logistics, and Visa at its flagship\u00a0SAP NOW SEA\u00a0event in Singapore\u00a0 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":57576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2770,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-57575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-sap-philippines","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}