{"id":6853,"date":"2014-11-10T13:34:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T05:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2014-11-10T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T05:34:04","slug":"saps-new-shared-services-facility-ph-serve-global-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/11\/10\/saps-new-shared-services-facility-ph-serve-global-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"SAP&#8217;s new shared services facility in PH to serve global clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAP SE has opened a new office in Ortigas Center, Pasig City, to serve as the new hub of the SAP shared services team for Sales and Finance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of the shared services facility for Sales, SAP Philippines will be setting up a call center in the new office to support sales requirements across Asia. This initiative, named the \u2018Project Nucleus\u2019, aims to double the staff strength by next year. In addition, the SAP shared services team for Finance in the new office will provide back office finance support for SAP companies globally.<\/p>\n<p>This is SAP\u2019s 60th office in Asia Pacific Japan and also the third SAP office in the Philippines. Prior to this, SAP had two offices in Fort Bonfacio, Taguig, catering to the domestic market and another center in Ortigas managing the company\u2019s HR consulting and shared services for SAP and customers globally. SAP has been operating in the Philippines for 19 years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6854\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SAP-ortigas-office.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6854\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SAP-ortigas-office-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"In photo (from left): His Excellency German Ambassador - Thomas Ossowski; President, SAP APJ - Adaire Fox-Martin; Undersecretary, Department of Trade &amp; Industry - Nora Terrado; and Managing Director, SAP Philippines - Darren Rushworth.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SAP-ortigas-office-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SAP-ortigas-office-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/SAP-ortigas-office-84x55.jpg 84w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>In photo (from left): His Excellency German Ambassador &#8211; Thomas Ossowski; President, SAP APJ &#8211; Adaire Fox-Martin; Undersecretary, Department of Trade &amp; Industry &#8211; Nora Terrado; and Managing Director, SAP Philippines &#8211; Darren Rushworth.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201c2014 marks 25 years of operations for SAP in the Asia Pacific Japan region. Investments such as our new office at Ortigas are to ensure that the next 25 years are even more successful for our employees, customers, and partners alike. Businesses in the Asia Pacific Japan have vast potential for technology adoption in order to compete and win in the region\u2019s vibrant economic landscape. We remain committed to helping organizations of all sizes benefit from both the simplicity of the cloud and breakthrough power of SAP HANA platform to run better,\u201d Adaire Fox-Martin, President, SAP Asia Pacific Japan, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years, the Philippines has established itself as an excellent services hub for SAP and customers across the region, in addition to its fast paced domestic demand. We are committed to growing the domestic and outsourcing market in the country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 60% of the employees in SAP Philippines belong to the millennial generation, born between 1982 and 2000, and considered to be at the center of technology adoption and innovation. The design of the new Ortigas office caters largely to these digital natives and encourages collaboration, and creative thinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe young, vibrant workforce in the Philippines and Asia Pacific Japan is what keeps our plans for the region going. We strongly believe that by leveraging SAP Cloud powered by SAP HANA, our employees will continue to drive the innovation agenda with and for our customers and partners across the region,\u201d concluded Adaire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 19 years that SAP has been in the Philippines, we have grown from strength to strength. Today\u2019s announcement is an indication of our long term commitment to the country. We have created job opportunities for the country\u2019s young population and continuously strengthened our partner ecosystem. Our customer portfolio comprises of businesses of all sizes and industries. It has been an exciting journey, to say the least,\u201d Darren Rushworth, Managing Director of SAP Philippines said.<\/p>\n<p>SAP has been in the Philippines since 1995 and has helped more than 1,000 businesses in the Philippines to run better and simpler. 100% of the Philippine brands in the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world\u2019s biggest public companies are SAP customers. SAP has played a very important role in spurring the growth of the ICT landscape of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that expanding our operations to another office in Ortigas is not only a sign of our journey in the Philippines so far, but also what the future promises \u2013 enhanced customer-centricity, a highly skilled and innovative team, and increased contribution to the ICT ecosystem in the Philippines,\u201d Darren said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAP SE has opened a new office in Ortigas Center, Pasig City, to serve as the new hub of the SAP shared services team for Sales and Finance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[435,1025],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-sap","tag-shared-services-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","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=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}