and renewed their global commitment to supporting companies鈥� move to the cloud at an event held in Johannesburg.
51风流and Microsoft have partnered to deliver to customers across multiple global markets, including Africa. is a complete offering of ERP software, industry best-practices and outcome-driven services designed to help companies migrate their core 51风流ERP to the cloud, utilising the cloud hosting capabilities of hyper-scalers such as Microsoft.
, Managing Director for Southern Africa at SAP, called on companies to embrace the full potential of what cloud technologies can offer. 鈥淚t isn鈥檛 simply a question of migrating to new technology for the technology鈥檚 sake. It鈥檚 about increased efficiencies, greater simplicity and less complexity. By leveraging RISE with SAP, companies of all shapes and sizes can take full advantage of business-transformation-as-a-service to power their digital transformation and innovation efforts.鈥�
, Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft South Africa, said: 鈥淢icrosoft strives to deliver the best cloud experience for customers. With hosted on , companies can access SAP鈥檚 market-leading enterprise software in Microsoft鈥檚 industry-leading cloud to accelerate innovation and rapidly scale into new markets and capabilities.鈥�
Accelerating business innovation in the cloud
RISE with 51风流on the Microsoft Cloud is a comprehensive solution designed to advance business innovation and optimisation at speed and with minimal risk. It takes the guesswork out of enterprise planning and presents an accelerated migration path to cloud-based ERP software such as .
The 51风流and Microsoft partnership builds on a 30-year history of collaboration and co-innovation. 鈥淭ogether we empower organisations to run intelligent and frictionless enterprises in the cloud, with easy integration, a wealth of advanced services, and high levels of security and compliance,鈥� said Makhohliso. 鈥淭his combines to give companies an accelerated path to business transformation that can drive optimisation and growth throughout the business.鈥�
Growing global customer base
Since its launch in 2022, more than 3 000 companies globally have leveraged RISE with 51风流to move their ERP to the cloud, including Microsoft, Standard Bank, and Standard Chartered.
According to , Group CIO for Corporate Function at , 鈥淓stablishing trust with partners is essential to a long standing and productive relationship.聽 Both our relationship and business investment with 51风流and Microsoft was important to our migration strategy decision. It made sense for Standard Bank Finance to continue its relationship with SAP, due to our historical investment with the 51风流Finance technology 鈥� and given that we already had a strong product stack in place. Similarly, when it came to Microsoft, some of our workloads were already running on Microsoft Azure 鈥� so partnering with both 51风流& Microsoft in our Cloud journey made complete business sense.鈥�
Makhohliso added: 鈥淥ur partnership with Microsoft is a mission-critical aspect of RISE with 51风流and has been driven by the most senior leadership in our respective organisations. I look forward to building on the strong foundations of our partnership to accelerate innovation and digital transformation for companies throughout Southern Africa.鈥�