SINGAPORE, Singapore — July 25, 2023 — SAP showcased a range of innovations with customers and partners, including Aboitiz InfraCapital, Changi Airport Group, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, Petrosea, ST Logistics, and Visa at its flagship SAP NOW SEA event in Singapore today.
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.
Speaking at SAP NOW SEA, a range of companies shared their inspiring transformation journeys, including:
• Visa 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.
• Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (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.
• A leader in the supply chain industry, ST Logistics 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
“Our mission in SEA is to uplift the lives of our region’s 700 million people. At SAP, we are doing that in three ways – boosting innovation through new ideas like business AI, driving sustainable outcomes by investing in carbon accounting and the green ledger, and helping businesses future-proof their infrastructure for resiliency in the cloud,” said Verena Siow, President and Managing Director, SAP SEA.
The event follows the announcement of SAP’s Asia Pacific Q2 2023 earnings, noting significant cloud growth and highlighting new SEA customer wins and go-lives including Visa, Singtel, FGV IFFCO, and Aboitiz InfraCapital.
Driving future-readiness with SAP partner ecosystem for the AI economy
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’s expanded partnership with Google Cloud. The partnership introduces a comprehensive open data offering that unites SAP with Google Cloud’s Data and Analytics Technology, unleashing the power of business data and advancing enterprise AI development.
B Capital Group, a venture capital firm co-founded by Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly, and which 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 through technology innovation. Under the MoU, B Capital portfolio companies will gain access to SAP’s industry expertise and global business networks to accelerate innovation, including areas such as AI and automation.
Asia’s leading communications technology group Singtel, also announced today that they are collaborating with SAP to offer an end-to-end 5G Intelligent Edge Aggregator (IEA) solution to further
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.
“It is clear we are at an inflection point, and the best way to Transform Tomorrow, Today, is through continual innovations: bringing expert partners, including customers themselves, together to collaborate and tap the power of the collective to thrive in the SEA digital economy,” added Siow.
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