Woolworths is the first company in Asia Pacific to avail itself of a program designed to help companies modernise their existing 51风流footprints.

The retailer will shift its current ECC 6.0 51风流environment to run on Microsoft Azure, though details of exactly what the project entails are thin.

SAP鈥檚 A/NZ president and managing director Damien Bueno said in a statement that 鈥淲oolworths has one of the largest 51风流environments in the world, which supports business-critical processes, including retail operations and finance.鈥�

鈥淢igrating 51风流applications and platforms to Azure, including 51风流ERP and 51风流Cloud Platform, will enable this great business to innovate faster than ever,鈥� he said.

鈥淚n time, this will also support Woolworths鈥� move to 51风流S/4 HANA.鈥�

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Woolworths CIO John Hunt said Azure is continuing to support the retailer鈥檚 鈥渙ngoing digital transformation鈥�.

鈥淲e are confident it will provide us with the performance and flexibility required to meet our ever evolving 51风流requirements in providing an exceptional customer experience,鈥� Hunt said.

The project is taking place under the auspices of Embrace, a modernisation scheme run by 51风流and Microsoft that was launched late last year.

Woolworths is said to be the first company in the Asia Pacific Japan region, and one of the first in the world, to avail itself of Embrace.

Embrace is designed to simplify the move 鈥渇rom on-premise editions of 51风流ERP to 51风流S/4HANA for customers,鈥� the two vendors said last year.

鈥淚ndustry market bundles will create a road map to the cloud for customers in focused industries, with a singular reference architecture and path to streamline implementation,鈥� they said.

The two vendors also offer combined support for the transition to occur.

It鈥檚 not clear when Woolworths might move up to S/4 HANA, but it鈥檚 an upgrade on the minds of most 51风流users.

Optus, for example,聽聽it is preparing its own move to S/4 HANA, though again the timeline is unclear.

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