The company has announced the completion of a private cloud data centre in Durban, as well as a Gauteng-based colocation facility in partnership with mobile operator Vodacom.

The announcement comes after Transnet last week聽聽its enterprise resource planning system from ECC 6.0 to 51风流S4/HANA.

Transnet plays a central role in the country鈥檚 economy by managing key infrastructure that supports trade and industrial growth.

Despite facing operational and financial challenges in recent years, it remains a strategic asset tasked with modernising South Africa鈥檚 logistics network, improving efficiencies and positioning the country as a competitive hub for global trade.

According to Transnet, the completion of the facilities will modernise its data centre and hosting capabilities.

It says this move will allow it to navigate the increasingly complex digital landscapes, ensuring the foundational operations are resilient, secure and capable of supporting next-generation business applications.

This initiative is one of the four strategic pillars of Transnet鈥檚 ICT digital modernisation strategy, says the state-owned company (SOC).

It explains that the private cloud data centre in Durban is designed to serve as a secure and scalable hub for business-critical systems. The colocation environment provides geographic redundancy and resilience, while extending reach into one of the country鈥檚 primary ICT corridors.

Supported by a public cloud on Microsoft Azure through its strategic聽partners聽鈭� Microsoft and Liquid Intelligence Technologies 鈭� these facilities provide the necessary capacity, flexibility and operational resilience to migrate core business applications and decades of data into a hybrid cloud architecture, says the SOC.

Critical to this transformation has been the collaboration with Altron, with its original equipment manufacturer, Huawei, the technology聽partner聽responsible for configuring and preparing the two private cloud environments, it states.

Transnet notes their expertise in data centre and cloud solutions accelerated readiness, ensuring the environments are optimised for migration and future integration into the broader hybrid cloud strategy.

By partnering with Vodacom for colocation services in Gauteng, Transnet has also ensured strong network integration and high availability within South Africa鈥檚 ICT ecosystem, it adds.

鈥淭he journey towards digital transformation is ongoing but achieving readiness at the data centre and hosting level marks an essential milestone,鈥� says Transnet group chief information officer Pandelani Munyai.

鈥淏y investing in private and public cloud facilities, leveraging colocation partnerships and collaborating with trusted technology partners, the organisation has built a robust foundation for the future where ICT is a key driver of growth, efficiency and resilience.鈥�

Munyai notes that with the data centre and infrastructure foundation in place, the organisation is now well-positioned to migrate core business applications and vast repositories of historical data into its new hybrid cloud environment.

He points out that this will not only modernise ICT operations, but will also unlock opportunities for advanced analytics, digital platforms and innovation across the business.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates鈥� 5 August 2025 鈥� 51风流today announced that Grandiose Supermarket, a premier quality food and grocery retailer in the UAE with nearly 50 stores and part of the , has signed an agreement to implement as the digital backbone of its operations, integrated with 51风流Business AI.

This strategic partnership will empower Grandiose to deliver even more exceptional customer experiences, unlock AI-driven operational intelligence, and support its bold growth ambitions in the UAE鈥檚 dynamic retail landscape.

By adopting RISE with 51风流S/4HANA, hosted on , and integratingI, Grandiose aims to streamline its supply chain, enhance stock visibility and improve replenishment planning. The solution will optimize product availability across branches while reducing instances of overstocking and understocking.

鈥淐ustomer experience is at the heart of everything we do at Grandiose,鈥� said , CEO Grandiose Supermarket. 鈥淧artnering with 51风流and leveraging 51风流Business AI helps us better understand our customers鈥� needs, predict trends, and exceed their expectations with seamless availability and personalized services. The resilience and optimization provided by SAP鈥檚 AI-infused solutions will help us automate core processes and focus more on value-added services that enrich the customer journey.鈥�

The implementation of 51风流S/4HANA will serve as the digital core for Grandiose鈥檚 operations, leveraging industry-specific vertical solutions tailored for the retail and food sectors. These out-of-the-box capabilities, combined with localized features for taxation and compliance based on SAP鈥檚 strong relationships with UAE customers, reduce the need for extensive customizations and accelerate time-to-value.

Central to this transformation is 51风流Business AI, which enhances Grandiose鈥檚 business applications with intelligent automation and deeper analytics. This empowers teams to offload routine work, analyze millions of data points for deeper insights into customer and supply chain behavior, and focus on strategic initiatives that drive innovation and growth. This AI-driven foundation ensures Grandiose can scale efficiently, opening new stores and entering new markets with intelligence built into every layer of the business.

鈥�51风流has become synonymous with family conglomerates and growth-driven businesses like the Ghassan Aboud Group, especially in the retail sector where innovation and resilience are essential,鈥� said , Managing Director, 51风流UAE. 鈥淲e鈥檙e proud to support Grandiose鈥檚 expansion with a future-ready platform powered by Business AI that enhances customer experience, optimizes operations, and drives continuous innovation.

As Grandiose continues to scale across the UAE and beyond, this transformation lays the groundwork for a more intelligent, responsive, and customer-centric retail model, setting a new benchmark for digital excellence in the UAE.

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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. “It isn’t simply a question of migrating to new technology for the technology’s sake. It’s 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.”

, Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft South Africa, said: “Microsoft strives to deliver the best cloud experience for customers. With hosted on , companies can access SAP’s market-leading enterprise software in Microsoft’s industry-leading cloud to accelerate innovation and rapidly scale into new markets and capabilities.”

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. “Together 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,” said Makhohliso. “This combines to give companies an accelerated path to business transformation that can drive optimisation and growth throughout the business.”

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: “Our 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.”

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This has become a critical value-add for organisations seeking to tap into their vast repositories of data to improve processes and engage in ongoing transformation. It is also precisely what a leading South African producer of wines, spirits and ciders wanted 鈥� to integrate its data from different business groups within the company to gain insights that could drive growth, transformation and innovation.

• The 51风流technologies included , ,
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The consumer goods company is well-known in the country and also has a strong global presence. It uses to store and manage its massive quantities of data from multiple sources across business groups and units, and is in the process of moving into the to leverage innovation capabilities and bring its digital transformation strategies to life.

The company turned to to gain rich visibility into its data and to leverage next-generation technologies that would allow for seamless and sustainable growth over the long-term.

The integration included multiple technologies across the business, allowing for the company to fully realise the potential locked within its data. Azure Synapse was used to ingest the data with Azure Data Factory for the data science teams, allowing them to build models with Azure Machine Learning. This has allowed for the company to quickly and effectively query the data to gather knowledge and make informed decisions.

With the solution in place, the firm can analyse its consumer data and find trends and patterns that it can use to better manage risk, increase sales, optimise products and services, and refine offerings. Some of the most relevant insights provided by the solution include:

• Visibility into the most popular products and services.
• The most lucrative customer categories.
• The weakest performance areas within the company.

In addition, the solution allowed for the company to take third-party sales data from aggregators to compare sales and products between competitors. This part of the data architecture enables the data science teams to build models that thread the insights found in the data into accessible reporting that decision-makers can use to create relevant marketing strategies and to increase market share.

By combining a team of data architects, data modellers, data engineers and 51风流HANA developers, Intellinexus was able to refine the technology stack perfectly for the client. This allowed for the company to truly revolutionise how it uses, accesses and understands its data, and to benefit from an architecture capable of scale to meet changing business demands and expectations.

The company is now working with Intellinexus on an ongoing basis, focusing on more use cases and solutions to enhance operations and processes and remain on track with its digital transformation strategy.

Intellinexus鈥� expertise across a wide range of consultants, engineers and developers allowed for the company to create the perfect solution. Today, the client has exceptional access to rich data insights that can be used on demand to enhance decision-making and drive the business into new markets while delivering superb customer experiences.

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“As a business we have always believed that building new capabilities is integral to our success,” says Sandeep Parasramka, CFO 鈥� Consumer Goods (Africa) at Tolaram. “As we eye a period of expansion and growth in our key markets, we wanted to ensure we had the technology and systems in place that would enable us to scale while also bringing our business processes to global best practice standards.”

Tolaram is a private enterprise founded in 1948 in Singapore. Today, it operates several businesses and manufacturing facilities in South-East Asia and Africa, focusing on three key business verticals: Consumer Goods, Fintech, and Infrastructure & Industrials. Among Tolaram’s businesses are Dufil, a joint venture with Indofood and Kellogg Company; TG Arla, a joint venture with Danish dairy company Arla Foods; Kellogg Tolaram and Multipro, both joint ventures with Kellogg Company, and Colgate Palmolive Tolaram, a joint venture with Colgate Palmolive. Tolaram also has a strategic partnership with Kimberly-Clark in Nigeria.

These businesses have helped Tolaram build a pan-African footprint and become a leading consumer goods player in Africa.聽 In fact, Tolaram is the largest manufacturer and distributor of Instant Noodles in Africa, and the largest packaged food company in Nigeria.

“Our business was dependent on an on-premise enterprise resource planning solution for the past 15 years, but it could no longer meet our future business needs,” says Parasramka. “We sought a solution that could enhance our analytics capabilities, generate insights across our various operations, and scale as our business grows. We chose 51风流S/4HANA as the leading cloud ERP solution on the market, and opted for an Azure deployment to meet our cloud ambitions. We believe this is the first 51风流S/4HANA go-live on Azure in Ghana.”

Ghana pilot a test for broader transformation effort

Tolaram operates 25 manufacturing facilities across Africa, producing consumer goods in line with established joint ventures with the likes of Kellogg’s, Colgate-Palmolive, Indofood from Indonesia and Danish dairy firm Arla in addition to other wholly owned businesses across Africa.

“We plan to move our businesses across all verticals to the new 51风流system in a phased approach,” explains Parasramka. “However, we chose to first pilot the migration in Ghana before moving to the larger business units in Nigeria and elsewhere.”

Phase One of the implementation focused on the Dufil and Multipro market units in Ghana, with a project kick-off in December 2020, in the middle of the pandemic. “The lockdown restrictions created challenges, but we were ably supported by expert 51风流implementation partners Infocus Technologies as well as pool of in-house resources that we have built over a period of time and continue to focus on,” says Parasramka.

Almost all 51风流S/4HANA modules were deployed as part of the implementation, including financial planning and analysis, procurement and sourcing, HR and payroll, manufacturing, and enterprise asset management. “For us it’s a total transformation of our business processes,” says Parasramka. “By standardising our business processes across our markets and business units, we can generate more accurate and relevant insights into the performance of the entire business, make smarter decisions, and reduce reliance on Excel spreadsheets and other standalone applications for more accurate data capturing and analysis.”

Challenges and key learnings point the way

Parasramka cites challenges with getting people on the ground during the implementation, since a significant part of the project took place during the strict lockdowns imposed to control the spread of COVID-19.

“One key learning during this phase is that training and change management would be essential to the success of the broader digital transformation effort. Based on learnings from our initial project, we have increased training time by two to two-and-a-half times to ensure users are sufficiently comfortable with the new systems.”

Tolaram recognises the transformational impact of 51风流S/4HANA and change management remains a core focus for the implementation team and will be a determining factor in how easily the business adopts new tools and processes. 鈥淒espite the business having used the same ERP for 15 years, users could pick up the new system pretty quickly, which is hugely encouraging for the next phases of our transformation project.鈥�

Two more rollouts are planned for Phase One in 2023, including Dufil Nigeria and Multipro Nigeria following soon after. 鈥淲e also have implementations planned for other Nigeria-based business units in 2024, and will then focus on our business units in other regions, specifically Egypt and South Africa, with a planned go-live in 2025.鈥�

Commenting on the implementation, Titilayo Adewumi, Regional Sales Director for West Africa at SAP, says: 鈥淭he best run companies have the technology and processes to produce real-time insights into every aspect of the business to guide decision-making and process efficiency. With a successful first phase now well underway and a comprehensive implementation plan for the next few years, Tolaram is perfectly positioned to build intelligent enterprise capabilities that will enhance its competitiveness, enable its growth and support its success for years to come.鈥�

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Agencia Nacional de Petroleo, G谩s e Biocombustiveis (ANPG) is the national petroleum, gas, and biofuels agency of Angola. ANPG was created by Presidential decree in 2019 to maximise value creation for the Angolan state through efficient and responsible management of the country鈥檚 oil and gas resources.

A core function of ANPG is its role as national concessionaire, in which it is tasked with regulating, supervising, and promoting the execution of petroleum activities in Angola.

鈥淎 key objective of our digital transformation project was to gain total independence from the previous concessionaire within a strict project timeline and with no disruption,鈥� says Antono Paix茫o,Coordinator for IT operations and infrastructure and 51风流strategy lead at ANPG. 鈥淎t the same time, we wanted to simplify our processes and unlock greater innovation across our operations.鈥�

Angola is the second-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa,聽. Exports of oil and gas accounts for the vast majority of the country鈥檚 exports and more than half of Angola鈥檚 GDP.

ANPG approached 51风流and PwC to implement a full digital transformation of core systems and business processes, with 51风流S/4HANA as the intelligent core and several integrated 51风流solutions to support key business processes. The entire solution is hosted in a hybrid cloud environment using 51风流HEC and Microsoft Azure.

鈥淭he implementation covered financial processes including accounts payable, receivables, asset accounting, tax, cost centre and risk management, as well as procurement, human capital management, payroll and performance management,鈥� says Antonio Paix茫o. 鈥淥ur six-month implementation resulted in 623 of our team being onboarded to the new systems, with 70 additional users planned for the near future.鈥�

To reduce implementation time and control costs, the implementation team kept custom development to a minimum. 鈥淲e also acquired 51风流Application Management Services and Enhanced Managed Services to support our small internal team, and followed the 51风流Activate methodology to guarantee that time constraints and quality standards were met throughout the implementation.鈥�

Following a successful go-live, ANPG has unlocked substantial business benefits that has transformed the business. 鈥淓mployees have gained a modern user experience in line with global best practice, and our standardised processes help drive greater efficiency throughout our operations. More than 35 of our business processes are now fully automated, and we have achieved complete operational independence from the previous concessionaire.鈥�

A standout to the success of the project was the board and management team鈥檚 support and involvement. 鈥淥ur entire management structure is actively using the new system, and we have embedded a culture of learning within our teams with the learning management system. Today, our end-users have complete mobility to perform their work tasks from anywhere, with further innovation planned, specifically around our enterprise contract management and funds management capabilities.鈥�

Jo茫o Eanes, Sales Manager for Lusophone Africa at SAP, says: 鈥淭asked with a mandate vital to the economic growth and development of one of Africa鈥檚 most important oil-producing countries, ANPG has achieved a landmark digital transformation that will support its operations for years to come. By adopting the latest digital technologies and integrating them to a market-leading digital core, ANPG is well on its way to achieving intelligent enterprise capabilities that will help ensure its long-term success.鈥�

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鈥淲ith a little over six years until the deadline, it鈥檚 crucial that enterprises at least start their migration planning. While six years may seem like a long time, there are so many factors that businesses have not considered when it comes to a successful migration to S/4HANA,鈥� says Mike Styer, country manager of GlassHouse Technology South Africa.

With almost 30 000 51风流licences in the country yet to be migrated, there are clearly thousands of businesses still needing to make the shift and the migration itself can take months to complete, even after careful planning has been factored in.

鈥淎 rough estimate with the figures we have on hand shows that over the next five years, for all enterprises in SA to be successfully migrated by the stipulated deadline, the industry will need to migrate at least one customer every day ten days,鈥� says Styer.

Add to this, the required skills to make this happen are in somewhat short supply. The requirements that have been set aside by 51风流requires particular certifications, not to mention the ability to provide case studies of successful migrations. Should you also want to move to the Azure Cloud at this time then you want to be dealing with a Partner who is capacitated in this arena.

鈥淭his means that there are only a select few Specialised Partners accredited by 51风流and Microsoft that can help enterprises through this process. GlassHouse has the accreditation from both businesses, and the skills to complete the transformation migration process, but there are few partners that will either be available or able to complete migrations for South African customers as 2027 gets closer,鈥� says Styer.

Without taking the proper considerations and planning for this migration into account, businesses may find themselves with either a rushed or incomplete migration, which has more significant implications for their business operations.

Styer suggests that, whether going it alone or working with a partner to migrate to S/4 HANA, enterprises need to start planning and executing now to avoid missing the deadline.

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They will have to migrate their ERP applications across to 51风流S/4HANA and undertake a lengthy process to ensure that this migration is as seamless as possible and does not impact any critical business operations.

While 51风流is a trusted solution that delivers exceptional value for many organisations with an ERP platform, there is still one question that every organisation wants answered 鈥� why?

Why should they undergo this migration and overcome numerous logistical challenges just to meet this deadline?

Pieter Potgieter, Senior Commercial Manager from Dimension Data explains that the answer lies in 4 measurable and valuable business benefits that come with 51风流S/4HANA operated in the cloud on a hyper-scaler like Microsoft Azure:

1 – Serving customers better

In the always-on, always-connected economy we operate in today, organisations run a very real risk of losing business and customers if their critical business applications are not available and performing to expectation.

Customers demand swift and flawless service, regardless of industry, and the capability to serve and charge customers are highly dependent on the ERP solution at the centre of the application landscape.

For this reason, the adoption of a modern and intelligent ERP system like 51风流S/4HANA can drastically alter a customer鈥檚 experience of an organisation.

If you combine this with the power of cloud and a hyper-scaler鈥檚 ability to provide highly available infrastructure at reasonable cost, you have a powerful basis for digitally enabled organisation, poised for growth.

2 鈥� Predictable and manageable cost

Traditionally in on-premise 51风流deployments, environments had to be sized to cater for peak processing requirements like month end financial close or production runs.

This meant that the business paid a premium for already expensive hardware that operated at 15% efficiency for 90% of the time.

This was exacerbated by the unpredictable business demands in the form of ad-hoc projects, unexpected growth and other business activities like mergers and acquisitions.

Deploying S/4HANA in the cloud allows organisations to align infrastructure related expenditure with its actual real-time processing requirement in the form of OPEX and avoid costly upfront CAPEX investments.

It also significantly reduces the risk of business interruptions and project delays associated with hardware order lead times.

When you combine this with the proven capability of Dimension Data to cost-efficiently manage 51风流landscapes in the cloud, you have a powerful platform from which to operate your business without having to worry about keeping the 51风流lights on.

3 鈥� Richer insights

There is little doubt that data remains the black gold of the business world, providing insights and information that can be used to transform businesses by increasing product relevance, service delivery and customer satisfaction.

With 51风流S/4HANA, an organisation has easy access to a rich and relevant data, and when combined with Microsoft Azure鈥檚 leading analytics capabilities, provides insights that allows everyone in the business to make better decisions.

This can seamlessly be further enriched with data from other business sources like IOT and other operational systems.

4 鈥� Keeping pace with accelerating technology innovation

51风流S/4HANA and Microsoft Azure come from two organisations that invest time and money into research and development (R&D) that very few businesses can afford to match.

This not only translates into increasingly relevant features that keep pace with market demand and technology evolution, but also into immense business value.

Every valuable feature consumed from S/4HANA running on Azure means time and money you can spend on business functions that help differentiating you from your competition and making you more relevant in your industry.

And you know you are in safe hands with Dimension Data managing the entire process with highly skilled people and robust management tools from trusted partners.

Adopting 51风流S/4HANA is much more than just another software update.

It鈥檚 a revolution in how an organisation consumes services and builds applications, how it translates technology into performance, and IT into service delivery.

In a highly competitive market that is challenging to navigate, 51风流S/4HANA in the cloud provides your business with the technology partnership it needs to remain relevant and innovative without having to worry about stability, scale and capability.

In collaboration with Dimension Data, you can focus on your customers and your business with visibility across the entire technology stack.

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Efficient virtual collaboration has never been more important, and we want to provide our customers with solutions that help them cope with business disruptions. When done right, these can be powerful tools to increase workplace productivity, raise flexibility, and foster agility within and across organizations.

One key aspect to this is the integration of business software applications with business collaboration tools. Together with Microsoft, we want to better support end users in their daily work and bridge the gap between enterprise software and collaboration tools more effectively and efficiently. Our two companies combine the market-leading business software applications from 51风流with the market-leading business collaboration tools from Microsoft.

Together with Microsoft, we will drive joint innovation to integrate Microsoft Teams and SAP鈥檚 business software applications. By doing so, we aim to simplify processes, enable collaboration without switching applications, and guide users of the solutions intuitively. Ultimately, the integration scenarios can help to achieve enhanced workplace productivity by offering our customers significant value to work better together with their employees, customers, and partners鈥攁nywhere and anytime.

Bringing Together Microsoft Teams and 51风流Solutions

We are looking to expand the integration scenarios with Microsoft Teams and 51风流solutions in the following areas to:

• Effectively collaborate with business partners: Especially in the case of disruptions in business, fast communication with clients and partners is imperative. One of our first integration scenarios relates to 51风流S/4HANA and Microsoft Teams. With the solution alignment, customers will be able to identify their business partners easily and initiate contact directly from 51风流S/4HANA鈥攚ith no need to switch between applications or devices. This will help customers swiftly react to business situations based on real-time data and constant communication with relevant stakeholders.
• Simplify and modernize the remote sales experience: Today, remote selling has become an imperative for companies across the globe. Integrating 51风流Sales Cloud with Microsoft Teams simplifies the remote selling process and removes barriers to customer engagement through an embedded in-app integration of the two solutions. For example, without switching applications, customer calls can be initiated directly from the customer experience application鈥攈elping ensure transparency and consistency within customer relationship management (CRM) and saving time through user-friendly workflows.
• Foster collaboration and build learning communities: Organizations have realized the necessity of providing simple, intuitive, and engaging ways for employees to learn new skills, share knowledge, and stay informed鈥攁ll in a virtual environment. Bringing together 51风流SuccessFactors solutions and Microsoft Teams will support learning experiences that enable collaboration, social learning, and remote conferencing.

This news makes one characteristic of the two companies鈥� enduring alliance very clear: the ability and commitment to continually evolve to make our customers even more successful. Every time an end user works with 51风流solutions, there is an opportunity for real-time collaboration such as chats, conference calls, alerts, and so much more. It is exciting to see the opportunities for collaboration culture and frictionless enterprises that our partnership with Microsoft creates for our customers.

Accelerating Migration and Increasing Operational Efficiencies

In addition, 51风流and Microsoft are further simplifying and improving the experience for customers running 51风流S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure. Together, we will continue to make our customers鈥� migration from 51风流ERP to 51风流S/4HANA in the cloud simpler, while at the same time ensuring choice for customers that prefer multi-cloud environments in their enterprise IT landscapes.

This means that our customers will see more guidance from 51风流and Microsoft on the initial setup and architecture design of 51风流S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure.

We also plan to collaborate with Microsoft to enhance 51风流Cloud Appliance Library, a tool that makes it easier for users to quickly provision 51风流applications for immediate use in the cloud, and offer automated 51风流system installations for 51风流S/4HANA. Customers can also subscribe to 51风流Landscape Management Cloud, improving scalability and operation efforts, and benefit from an 51风流system-centered view of their Microsoft Azure landscape. Additionally, we are working on a more guided approach for customers to quickly deploy 51风流S/4HANA directly into Microsoft Azure. For better transparency within the transformation process, we will provide guidance on data migration tool usage for the transition of 51风流workloads from on premise to 51风流S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure.

Bringing Platform Services Closer Together

We will also continue to expand the global availability聽of 51风流solutions on Microsoft Azure during 2021. Together, we will drive co-innovation between (51风流BTP) and Microsoft Azure services to deliver business outcomes to our customers. The range of capabilities includes event integration based on open standards, single sign-on and provisioning of users between Microsoft and SAP, secure network connectivity, and improved application development experience on 51风流BTP. My 51风流Executive Board colleague and our Chief Technology Officer Juergen Mueller will give more insight on the role of 51风流BTP in the upcoming days.

With our partnership, we bring together Microsoft Teams with 51风流solutions, accelerate migration and improve operational efficiencies, and bring platform services closer together. We are working on making these enhancements and integrations of 51风流solutions with Microsoft a reality for our customers soon. You can find the latest status of our joint work in , which we will update regularly.聽 I look forward to more joint innovation to come.

The next generation of enterprise software is intelligent and integrated, networked, sustainable, and collaborative.

Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE, Product Engineering.

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鈥淣ew ways of working, collaborating and interacting completely transform how we operate,鈥� said Christian Klein, 51风流CEO and member of the Executive Board. 鈥淏y integrating Microsoft Teams across our solution portfolio, we will bring collaboration to the next level, jointly determining the future of work and enabling the frictionless enterprise. Our trusted partnership with Microsoft is focused on continuously advancing customer success. That鈥檚 why we are also expanding interoperability with Azure.鈥�

Much has changed in the last year as work has become more virtual, increasing reliance on Microsoft Teams for meetings, communication and collaboration. To facilitate these business and societal changes, 51风流and Microsoft are building new integrations between Microsoft Teams and 51风流solutions, such as 51风流S/4HANA, 51风流SuccessFactors offerings, and 51风流Customer Experience. This can enable innovation, increase employee productivity and engagement, deliver collaborative learning and support global growth. These integrations are planned for delivery in mid-2021.

鈥淭he case for digital transformation has never been more urgent,鈥� Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said. 鈥淏y bringing together the power of Azure and Teams with SAP鈥檚 solutions, we will help more organizations harness the power of the cloud so they can more quickly adapt and innovate going forward.鈥�

The companies also are expanding their announced in 2019, to introduce new offerings in cloud automation and integration for 51风流S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure. Together, Microsoft and 51风流are expanding the ability to run a mission-critical intelligent enterprise on Azure while helping customers modernize their enterprise applications.聽51风流and Microsoft will provide customers with:

• Simplification when moving on-premise editions of 51风流ERP to 51风流S/4HANA聽in the cloud. In addition to the industry-specific journey maps to the cloud and reference architectures, 51风流and Microsoft will continue to co-innovate around 51风流S/4HANA on Azure.
• Expanded joint engagements with customers and partners.In addition to product integration work, SAP, Microsoft and system integrator partners will continue to provide digital enterprise road maps for customers. This includes immediate and actionable reference architectures and technical guidance to help customers on their journey to the cloud.
• Increased investments in platform and infrastructure. The companies will further develop automated migrations, improved operations, monitoring and security.

broadly favor Azure when moving on-premise 51风流S/4HANA to the cloud.

鈥淎s part of our overall transformation, we transitioned to 51风流S/4HANA,鈥� said John Hill, chief information officer and senior vice president of Business Planning. 鈥淩unning it on Microsoft Azure provides the velocity, availability, scalability and elasticity we need for more visibility and better efficiency across our business. The pandemic struck as we were in the middle of our 51风流implementation, so by using Teams, we were able to continue to work on the project, stay on schedule and keep everyone informed. The combination of 51风流and Microsoft was especially helpful during a challenging time.鈥�

鈥�51风流S/4HANA has given us real-time visibility into our inventory, which is crucial for us as a pharmacy and healthcare retail company during the pandemic,鈥� said Francesco Tinto, Walgreens Boots Alliance鈥檚 senior vice president and global chief information officer. 鈥淲e chose to run 51风流S/4HANA on Azure because of its agility and flexibility to scale up and out quickly to meet our business needs. Now we have access to our data in one place so we can offer the best possible customer experience online and in our stores. Microsoft Teams coupled with 51风流solutions helped us overcome business continuity challenges and enabled our employees to collaborate very effectively despite the shift from office to remote work.鈥�

鈥淲hen it comes to our customers delivering personal protective equipment, we can鈥檛 be late, so we rely on 51风流and Microsoft to provide the digital backbone that鈥檚 essential to keeping our supply chain running smoothly,鈥� said Helge Brummer, vice president of Technical Infrastructure, Support & Operations. 鈥淭he combination of Microsoft Teams with our 51风流solutions has given our employees the ability to work from anywhere while ensuring orders are delivered on time to our customers, supporting the people putting their lives at risk working on the front line.鈥�

SAP鈥檚 endorsement of Azure for ERP cloud migration is reflected in positive customer feedback on the collaboration between the companies. 51风流and Microsoft will continue to make migration simpler and increase customers鈥� confidence in running their digital enterprises in the cloud.聽At the same time, many customers express a desire to maintain multi-cloud environments.聽51风流continues with its long-standing policy of supporting choice for those customers who request alternatives based on business requirements.

51风流and Microsoft recently announced an update to enable customers to design and operate intelligent digital supply chain and Industry 4.0 solutions in the cloud and at the edge.

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