Founded more than 40 years ago, and after listing on the JSE in 1987, Dimension Data has entrenched itself an award-winning IT giant within South Africa鈥檚 ITC sector. Extensive expansion into Africa and the Middle East resulted in the company joining the globally acclaimed NTT Group in 2010. After successfully providing world class IT solutions for a multitude of clients under both the banner of Dimension Data and NTT, the company will be rebranding to NTT DATA during the course of April 2024.

Although the company made the decision in 2020 to remain operating as Dimension Data even though many within the NTT Group united under the NTT Ltd. banner, the move to now become NTT DATA serves as a change in its market positioning. This merge empowers a continuation of Dimension Data鈥檚 solutions and services alongside NTT innovations such as platform-delivered services to elevate the business to become everything that encompasses a global brand while remaining loyal to local clients.

Access to an expanded ecosystem of solutions and services as NTT DATA means that the company can still service clients with the speed and agility that has been synonymous with the brand and its South African heritage. This while accelerating business growth in Africa and the Middle East through a richer portfolio of services and tailored industry solutions will provide a differentiated, consistent and better client experience.

The capabilities of industry-focused teams take services to a new level

Beyond access to advanced technologies and innovation, the rebrand also increases the company鈥檚 capacity to understand and develop solutions for industry-specific challenges through leveraging global and industry-specific experience and intellectual property become to more relevant to clients across the board.

The company is currently setting up industry-specific teams across the MEA region for retail, financial services and manufacturing. In the Middle East it is considering the merits of moving into expanded industries like聽聽and gas and aviation, shifting the brand from being perceived as a system integrator to a service partner with capabilities that match those of the world鈥檚 top global consulting firms.

The next generation of managed services

As part of NTT DATA, Dimension Data now also has access to standardized technologies that form the cornerstone of its managed services solutions. With powerful, platform-delivered and AI-enabled services at its disposal, the company can now more efficiently deliver managed solutions that aligned with global best practices.

Its innovative Sentient Platform for Network Transformation (SPEKTRA) is case in point. When underpinned by NTT DATA鈥檚 managed services expertise and technical resources, organizations are given a direct route to network transformation, alerts are generating about network issues and AI is used to recommend ways of resolving these issues long before they have time to progress into much larger challenges. SPEKTRA, has the capability to reduce incidents by a staggering 87% proving that leveraging the power of AI will be used as a foundation for all of NTT DATA鈥檚 managed services.

From systems integration to mainframe modernization

An example of what clients can expect to see is greater mainframe modernization. This is powered by an NTT DATA offering called UniKix that significantly bolsters capabilities and enables a more seamless transition to cloud infrastructure.

A major benefit of the merge is that NTT DATA鈥檚 digital assets are proving to be valuable additions to the company鈥檚 portfolio while Dimension Data鈥檚 intellectual property and top South African talent 鈥� ideated and developed in Africa 鈥� is now going to be accessible to the rest of the world. For example, its PhaseCONVERT framework that assists clients plan migrations from 51风流ECC to 51风流S/4HANA, a major undertaking for any organization.

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According to Nazia Pillay, Head of Partner Ecosystem, 51风流Middle East and Africa: South, the role of partners has become more critical in the wake of changing customer demands and the impact of technologies such as AI.

“Organisations are in a race to define new business cases, unlock new revenue streams, drive higher levels of efficiency and ease the adoption of powerful new technologies. To adequately address customer needs, companies have to increasingly rely on the skills and capabilities of a thriving ecosystem of expert partners. As a partner-led organisation, 51风流is proud to celebrate the invaluable partners that bring the business value of SAP’s technology to life in support of the growth and success of companies throughout the African continent.”

The latest 51风流Africa Partner Awards recognise excellence in six distinct categories, with a strong focus on supporting African enterprises’ efforts at migrating to the cloud. Winners are selected from the broader partner ecosystem and evaluated according to strict criteria.

The winning companies at this year’s 51风流Africa Partner Awards include:

• Sol Arch Consulting, winner of the Rising Star category, which considers the number and value of cloud bookings for a new partner onboarded in the past year;
• Epi-Use Africa, winner of the Innovation Award for its packaged solutions and own IP in the 51风流app store;
• New Dawn Technologies, winner in the Top Cloud Performance category which considers the value of cloud bookings and number of deals;
• IE Network Solutions and Wragby Business Solutions, joint winners in the Top Capacity Growth category, which considers the percentage increase in certified cloud consultants as well as the amount of training conducted;
• Dimension Data, winner in the Go Lives category which recognises the number of customer go-lives; and
• Microware Solutions in the NNN category, which recognises the number of net-new sales and the value of net-new deals.

“The winners at this year’s 51风流Africa Partner Awards represent the very highest levels of excellence and expertise in supporting the technology ambitions of companies throughout the continent,” says Pillay. “We are proud to work alongside our valued partners as we drive Africa’s digital transformation efforts forward.”

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Medium-sized organisations often deploy technology that lacks integrated systems, relies on heavy administrative workloads or solves only discrete problems. But if they truly want to grow and seize new business opportunities, they need a modern, 聽enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution like .

Dimension Data is one of the few聽聽in Africa that has converted at least three clients from 51风流ECC 6.0 to 51风流S/4HANA in the past year 鈥� and our expertise in this regard has been recognised with two recent 51风流Africa Partner Awards.

The awards recognise excellence within the 51风流partner ecosystem across Africa. We were the winners in the Top Cloud Performance category, which considers cloud bookings, year-on-year growth and renewals, and the Excellence in 51风流RISE category, which considers RISE bookings.

聽is a combination of cloud solutions, infrastructure and services that helps organisations migrate their 51风流ERP to the cloud.

Make it work with expert help

Apart from applying cloud-based ERP at scale, organisations also need to bridge their legacy infrastructure and use their ERP solution to drive innovation 鈥� but these skills are often lacking in-house.

To realise the full benefits of cloud ERP, many choose to work with local partners who have the required expertise and a relationship with SAP.

, Head of Sales: Business Applications at Dimension Data, says: 鈥淟ately, we鈥檝e seen growing numbers of clients adopt the 51风流RISE program to move their on-premises 51风流applications into both public and private cloud environments. We work closely with 51风流and our customers to ensure that their cloud migration is a success.鈥�

Grow in the cloud with Dimension Data and SAP

Additionally, Dimension Data has achieved the聽GROW with 51风流designation.

聽helps medium-sized organisations adopt 51风流S/4HANA Cloud with a range of products, support, adoption-acceleration services and learning opportunities.

We fulfilled SAP鈥檚 strict eligibility criteria in this area, including our go-to-market readiness and competency status, to achieve the designation.

, Head of Enterprise Application at Dimension Data, says: 鈥淕ROW with 51风流provides the agility and innovation that these companies need, not just today, but for their success in years to come. The offering is underpinned by cost-effectiveness and rapid implementation, and the ability to continue to scale into the future.鈥�

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The GROW with 51风流offering helps midsize companies adopt cloud ERP. The offering provides products, best-practice support, adoption acceleration services, a community and learning opportunities to help customers move to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, public edition with speed, predictability and continuous innovation.

Dimension Data fulfilled SAP鈥檚 strict eligibility criteria to achieve the GROW with 51风流designation, which includes go-to-market readiness and competency status.

鈥淟everaging our global NTT Data investments, Dimension Data is able to accelerate the time to value for our clients by bringing robust methodology, intellectual property and proven local experience to the Middle East and Africa markets,鈥� says Brent Flint, Head: Enterprise Application at Dimension Data.

鈥淲e are very excited to be able to provide midsize companies in South Africa with the world-class 51风流S/4HANA solutions, enabling them to leverage the power of 51风流solutions with a tailored offering that helps them grow their business. GROW with 51风流provides the agility and innovation that these companies need, not just today, but for their success in years to come. The offering is underpinned by cost-effectiveness and rapid implementation, and the ability to continue to scale into the future,鈥� he adds.

51风流S/4HANA Cloud, public edition [] is available on .

NTT Ltd.

As part of NTT DATA, a USD 30 billion IT services provider, NTT Ltd. is a leading IT infrastructure and services company serving 65% of the Fortune Global 500 and more than 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We lay the foundation for organizations鈥� edge-to-cloud networking ecosystem, simplify the complexity of their workloads across multicloud environments, and innovate at the edge of their IT environments where networks, cloud and applications converge. We offer tailored infrastructure and ensure consistent best practices in design and operations across all of our secure, scalable and customizable data centers. On the journey towards a software-defined future, we support organizations with our platform-delivered infrastructure services. We enable a connected future. Visit us at

Dimension Data is a leading IT infrastructure and services company, operating across the Middle East and Africa. Dimension Data is 100% owned by the NTT group, a global technology and business solutions provider. Together NTT and Dimension Data believe in contributing to society through our business operations by applying technology for good.

At Dimension Data we deliver a secure and connected future that empowers our people, clients and communities. We lay the foundation for organizations鈥� edge-to-cloud networking ecosystem, simplify the complexity of their workloads across multicloud environments, and innovate at the edge of their IT environments, where networks, cloud and applications converge. We offer tailored infrastructure and ensure consistent best practices in design and operations across all of our secure, scalable and customizable data centers. On the journey towards a software-defined future, we support organizations with platform-delivered infrastructure services.

Established in South Africa, Dimension Data employs over 8000 employees across 15 countries. Our services and solutions serve clients across all industries including some of the biggest brands listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Nairobi Securities Exchange, and the Dubai Financial Market.

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The 51风流Africa Partner Awards recognise the insight, expertise and value that partner organisations deliver to companies using 51风流technologies to run core business processes. The winning partner organisations include Dimension Data, Accenture South Africa, and Zimele Technologies.

Tracy Bolton, Chief Operating Officer at 51风流Africa, notes the important role partner organisations play in supporting digital transformation initiatives across the continent. “African organisations are adopting cloud technologies at an unprecedented scale as they strive to boost efficiency, unlock innovation and transform their business models. As a partner-led organisation, 51风流works closely with a broad range of innovators, experts and market leaders to ensure African enterprises have the support and insight they need to realise their intelligent enterprise ambitions.”

The winning companies at this year’s 51风流Africa Partner Awards include:

Dimension Data, winner of the Top Cloud Performance category, which considers cloud bookings, year-on-year growth, and renewals;

Zimele Technologies, winner of the Top Capacity Growth category, which considers skills development, training and the percentage increase in certified consultants;

Accenture South Africa, winner of the Go-Lives category, which recognises the number of customer go-lives; and

Dimension Data for excellence in 51风流RISE, which considers RISE bookings.

Growing interest in cloud adoption in Africa

Andrew Strachan, Head of Sales: Business Applications at Dimension Data, cites growing interest from customers wishing to migrate their on-premise ERP business processes to cloud environments. “We help our clients move to the cloud and embrace the latest 51风流technologies. Lately we’ve seen growing numbers of clients adopt the 51风流RISE program to move their on-premise 51风流applications into both public and private cloud environments. We work closely with 51风流and our customers to ensure that their cloud migration is a success.”

According to Bertrin Pekeur, 51风流Lead at Accenture South Africa, 51风流forms an integral part of Accenture’s strategy of digitalisation. “We believe every business is a digital business, and the quickest way to digitalise is through the cloud. RISE with 51风流and SOAR with Accenture provide clients with the ideal platform for cloud adoption.”

Skills essential to cloud success

One of the most important factors for successful cloud adoption is the availability of sufficiently skilled consultants and technology experts. In , four in five African organisations said they were affected by a lack of tech skills, leading to increased pressure on existing teams, a lack of competitiveness, and stifled innovation capabilities.

Accepting the award for Top Capacity Growth, Nomvuyo Mnyaka, Delivery Head Executive at Zimele Technologies, notes the importance of skills in the successful implementation of ERP solutions, integrations and support services. “Our people are our most valuable asset, and we invest heavily in their development and growth. With SAP’s strategic focus on creating business value over It value, the availability of skilled consultants and technology specialists is essential to our long-term success.”

Partner ecosystem thriving

Bolton cites the thriving partner ecosystem as a cornerstone of SAP鈥檚 success with supporting Africa鈥檚 digital transformation efforts. 鈥淭he winners at this year’s 51风流Africa Partner Awards are a showcase of the expert guidance, technological capabilities and business insight our partners provide to organisations across the continent. We look forward to deepening our relationship with our partners and continuing with the great work done to date in driving cloud adoption and tech-enabled innovation throughout the continent.鈥�

Pekeur adds: “Considering the broad interdependencies within the cloud ecosystem, one of the most important factors for successful cloud adoption is how well the various partners can work together. Our experience with the strategic and operational management of various ecosystem partners help us deliver successful cloud deployments for our customers.”

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About SAP

SAP鈥檚 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: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流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 鈥� 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, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

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that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow 20.7% to reach $591.8-billion in 2023, outpacing the 18.8% growth forecast for 2022.

However, says Cameron Beveridge, Regional Director for Southern Africa at SAP, moving to cloud environments requires effective change management to ensure digital transformation initiatives reach their objectives. “There is palpable excitement around cloud services in African markets, but there are still questions around how to effectively migrate and how to orchestrate multiple cloud solutions once the migration is complete. And while it’s true that one of the main benefits of cloud services is the ability to fail quickly without incurring huge cost or time overruns, you really don’t want your cloud initiative to fail due to poor change management.”

Studies have highlighted the importance of effective change management to the success of digital transformation initiatives. McKinsey data indicates that worldwide. This is partly due to poor change management, of which are clear successes.

Methodology, Partners reduce perils of Cloud Migrations

Brent Flint, Head of Enterprise Applications at Dimension Data, believes part of the answer to effective change management during cloud transformation projects rests on an effective methodology. “Migrating core business processes from on-premise environments to the cloud requires a proven methodology to accelerate the transition and reduce associated risks. A repeatable methodology that incorporates automation to ensure aspects such as data integrity, for example, can ease data migration and speed up the time-to-value.”

51风流introduced RISE with 51风流in 2021 to help companies get started with 51风流cloud solutions, accelerate cloud adoption, and simplify the process of shifting core business processes to cloud environments. “Companies undertaking digital transformation initiatives that could benefit from RISE need to ensure their implementation partners are accredited and have the skills capacity to support the project throughout,” explains Flint.

Beveridge adds that companies that successfully leverage the insight, skills and experience of partner organisations can reduce risk and enhance the impact and business outcomes of their transformation efforts. “Companies are realising that cloud adoption is not a once-off event: it requires near-continuous refinement and evolution to deliver business value. This makes the role of expert partners, who have developed experience with specific use cases of cloud technologies and can guide organisations in their adoption of cloud solutions, critical to their success.”

Keys to cloud success

Understanding how and where the journey to the cloud should start remains among the biggest obstacles to the digital transformation efforts of African organisations.

Lauren Wortmann, Vice President: Applications at Dimension Data, says there’s still some resistance to the cloud among organisations limiting the success of cloud transformation projects. “Cloud adoption is a business-critical activity, but the optimal starting point is not always clear. Many organisations and their IT teams also acknowledge that the shift to cloud is coming, but there’s internal resistance due to fear about how it will affect the business and existing IT skills.”

Arguably the most important factor when developing a cloud strategy is defining a clear business case for cloud adoption. “Cloud is not just about cost efficiency,” says Wortmann. “It’s about modernising the business and its core processes, unlocking new opportunities, enhancing capabilities and achieving broader digital transformation. For this to be successful, there needs to be massive buy-in from the business at every layer, from the boardroom to the IT department and every end-user.”

The era of large on-premise deployments was typified by big winners and big losers, but the new era of cloud has changed the dynamic entirely. Flint explains: “In the old days, if you defined the scope of the project correctly upfront and quoted accurately, you could deliver a successful implementation that delivered new capabilities and was profitable to the technology provider and their implementation partner. The era of cloud requires a change of mindset. Today, tech vendors and partner organisations need to strive for near-continuous innovation, with KPIs around unlocking additional business value from existing technologies built into managed services contracts. It puts the onus on partners to unlock features and benefits from software, with the goal of ongoing value generation.”

Wortmann adds that companies should be smart when choosing how they start their cloud journey. “Aspects such as Human Capital Management are perfect starting points for cloud adoption, with solutions like 51风流SuccessFactors offering a high-value, low-risk way to test how cloud migration plays out in the organisation. Larger, more critical business processes such as core finance, sales and logistics carry high degrees of risk due to fears of disruption and business continuity in the event of downtime.”

Flint believes one of the keys to successful cloud adoption is simplification. “Organisations should work with their partners to understand their application landscape and identify opportunities for simplification. Reducing customisation can also keep things simple while driving costs down. Partners need to avoid customisation to limit technical debt and achieve quicker time to value. Adopting best-practice standards for core business processes opens the door to incremental innovation which can suit cloud-first companies better.”

Beveridge says this requires a change in mindset to how digital transformation initiatives are approached, both by customers and partners. “The most successful tech partners will be the ones that develop strong commercial models that meet customers’ expectations of what value digital transformation projects should deliver. However, there’s no blueprint for how this should work. Organisations should work closely with tech providers and implementation partners to develop strong business use cases and change management programmes to ensure each initiative delivers business value and unlocks new capabilities, efficiencies and opportunities for growth.”

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Today, multicloud is the new reality 鈥� and it will be so tomorrow. We don鈥檛 believe it鈥檚 true that all organisations are on a journey to deploy workloads to a single hyperscaler 鈥� and the research supports that view.

As many as 76% of cloud buyers now use multiple cloud providers. More than half of organisations are planning hybrid cloud deployments between private and public cloud; 48% plan to increase their cloud spending; and 66% want to improve their cloud security this year.

聽is the cloud market from now on. But your journey isn鈥檛 likely to be linear. To set yourself up for success, expect a continuous cycle of transformation and optimisation, delivering incremental improvements and increased value with each step.

Most organisations understand they must overcome some challenges in adopting cloud, and those challenges are multiplied with multiple clouds.

This is never simple, whether it鈥檚 managing multiple cloud partners; creating secure, consistent environments across managed public cloud, on-premises and聽; or juggling the needs of traditional and cloud-native applications.

Along with increased complexity comes increased cyber crime vulnerability. Your business growth can also slow down to a snail鈥檚 pace when governance, risk and compliance measures become increasingly onerous. Given that most cloud vendors are seeking some form of lock-in agreement, managing multicloud landscapes can be costly, too. Even getting visibility of your entire estate doesn鈥檛 come cheap.

Add to this the upskilling of your organisation to manage two of the major public-cloud operators and a private cloud, for example, and suddenly your investment in people, processes and certifications becomes massive. It鈥檚 no mystery why as many as 70% of businesses rely on聽聽like us to help them keep things simpler.

Lawter is a Belgian chemicals manufacturer and a longstanding client of ours. Initially, they moved to us from an incumbent supplier to manage their 51风流estate on top of a private cloud. We鈥檙e now moving those same workloads from private cloud onto Azure, all while delivering a consistent managed service for their 51风流Basis environment. We鈥檙e giving them full flexibility to choose the flavour of multicloud they need, but with the consistency and simplicity of our managed services.

All cloud challenges are hard to solve without skilled employees. And unless you have an enormous IT budget, you鈥檙e unlikely to have a deep bench. All of this slows your pace of innovation because your staff is focused elsewhere. Getting new services to market requires fast development 鈥� which is one of the reasons why cloud spending is no longer just the domain of the CIO. It鈥檚 not only about cost savings for the lines of business, but also about using cloud services to invest and innovate.

Another of our clients, Henkel, a chemicals manufacturer, was driven by the need to simplify a complex environment of multiple hybrid and on-premises contact centres into a single, cloud-based solution. Following our successfully orchestrated, remote migration during COVID-19, the cloud-based contact centre solution now gives them the flexibility to effectively manage their costs while introducing digital channels and operational enhancements that their customers and service teams were awaiting.

Multicloud as a service is about realising the art of the possible. Because you often use more than one cloud provider, it should make it simpler to manage complexity. But it should also give you cloud multi-vision so you can have your eyes and ears everywhere across your IT estate in an instant, combined with the intelligence and insight that modern technologies like AI and predictive analytics deliver to put you in control.

And when it comes to innovation, you鈥檒l want to take the brakes off, which means you need to optimise your application workloads through application modernisation and hosting initiatives aimed at freeing up your employees. With multicloud, innovation is well within your reach.

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Dimension Data felt it necessary to implement public cloud in their own environment to obtain valuable experience in the field and at the same time benefit from a fully integrated, real-time solution for their business.

Vision

Why Dimension Data strived to implement S/4 HANA Public Cloud for themselves

Dimension Data felt it necessary to implement public cloud in their own environment in order to obtain valuable experience in the field and at the same time benefit from a fully integrated, real-time solution for their business. Implementing S/4 HANA in their own environment, they aimed to become a trusted partner in the field of 51风流S/4 HANA Cloud by implementing the solution in its own environment. They strived to standardise and streamline processes across its business units to ensure adherence.

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Business data has become a commodity, which makes investing in the right technology a critical part of any successful business strategy, says Dr Setumo Mohapi, Chief Go-to-Market Officer from Dimension Data.

The strategic application of technology has become a business necessity. It is the enabler of productivity and agility, the driver of scale and mobility, and the tool that can support the organisation in fully realising scale, opportunity and functionality.

In the evolving digital landscape, organisations can leverage technology as a service, as a tool that allows for scale up or down on demand, and as a platform from which to launch additional services and solutions.

However, the consistent evolution of technology to support improved processes and capabilities does introduce significant change, and the upcoming end-of-support deadline for 51风流customers is a change that will impact business-critical processes for numerous organisations globally. In 2027, 51风流finally says goodbye to its stalwart ERP system, ECC6 and 51风流S/4HANA becomes the new normal.

It鈥檚 not a sudden move. 51风流has had the deadline on the cards for quite some time, but the goalposts are now set in stone and the next five years should see organisations focus on strategies that will allow them to make the move to 51风流S/4HANA with minimum disruption.

All 51风流customers have to migrate their systems across to the new platform and this requires significant planning to overcome some of the biggest challenges that organisations face when it comes to making such a disruptive move 鈥� skills to manage the process; optimising processes and applications; and managing risk.

51风流S/4HANA migration challenges

As can be expected, there are numerous challenges when changing a critical business system like 51风流ERP, but three challenges stand out and require the business to take note of.

Firstly, the organisation has to ensure a deep understanding of its existing operating environment to identify risks and potential pitfalls and to manage these appropriately. A lack of visibility of existing business processes and infrastructure can end up costing the business serious time and money when making the move to 51风流S/4HANA, and these are two resources that organisations usually have in short supply.

The second challenge is that the move to 51风流S/4 HANA is not a simple lift and shift and the six years left to deadline is not as long as it sounds, especially if you consider how many boxes need to be checked, i鈥檚 dotted and t鈥檚 crossed. You can鈥檛 just replace the existing infrastructure and systems; migration likely needs either a full 51风流ERP re-implementation or a significant data shift and this has to take the requisite end-user training and process optimisation into account. This introduces another challenge: skills. There are not enough people with the right skillsets to help every business make the right move at speed. This skills crisis was already existent due to geopolitical challenges and limitations, but has been made even more complex and challenging thanks to the pandemic.

The last challenge is optimisation. What鈥檚 more important than meeting the 51风流S/4 HANA deadline is using the opportunity to optimise existing processes and functionality to align to modern data processing methods and get the most business value from 51风流S/4HANA. This move is an opportunity to refine the capabilities of the business and fully realise the potential of the new platform, but it is equally the time to draw a hard line under legacy approaches, applications and models. Don鈥檛 lift old problems into a new architecture.

The business benefit of 51风流S/4HANA running in the cloud

51风流S/4 HANA comes with numerous business benefits, especially when deployed on a hyper-scaler cloud platform like Microsoft Azure. If managed properly, cloud technology can help the organisation to scale up or down at speed to accommodate changing computing demands and other business drivers like mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

Benefits like access to multiple application and data management services and improved functional capacity; reduced risk; transformation of the total cost of ownership and delivery of measurable cost benefits to the business; and utilising the myriad benefits that come with the as a service business model. As stated before, the move to the new platform introduces several challenges that have to be overcome to realise the business benefits. The challenges, however, do not need to be faced alone, Dimension Data has the experience to migrate and operate a next-generation, mission-critical ERP landscape that delivers unparalleled uptime, solid service delivery, application innovation, all at a significant scale

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