World events continue to impact organisations and industries undergoing transformation, demanding agility, data insights, and partnership based on adaptation and collaboration. 51风流announced its fourth quarter of cloud revenue growth and a host of leading new Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) customers, embodying those qualities to deliver strong cloud momentum in its core ERP and RISE with 51风流business, and demonstrating the business systems leader is more relevant than ever.
- Cloud revenue globally was up 33% to 鈧12.5 billion, up 24% at constant currencies
- 狈别飞听RISE with 51风流customers in APJ included聽Fujitsu Limited,听PETRONAS, and聽Daiwa House, while聽Mahindra & Mahindra聽went聽live with聽RISE with SAP
- Leading global names reported go-lives supported by 51风流Cloud Success Services, including聽Zespri,听Macquarie Banking & Financial Services, and聽Korea Chamber of Commerce
- APJ also reported momentum with new聽51风流SuccessFactors customers like聽IndiGo Airlines, while organisations including聽Qantas,听Freedom Furniture,听Endeavour Group, and聽Wipro聽selected or expanded their investments in Qualtrics.
In APJ, 51风流grew cloud revenue to 417M Euros in Q4 2022, an increase of 28% over same period 2021, with Japan and India showing particular momentum. Total APJ Q4 2022 revenue grew to 1.171B Euros. Those results culminated in a full year APJ cloud revenue of 1.575B Euros (29% growth against FY21) and total revenue of 4.495B, up 5% year-on-year, with Japan and Korea showing particular strength.
World-renowned brands like Fujitsu and PETRONAS chose RISE with SAP, becoming the latest companies to benefit from comprehensive, flexible, and innovative cloud-based transformation.
One year from the launch of 51风流Cloud Success Services, the APJ services organisation is providing a simpler way to realise business outcomes through reliable, value-driven collaboration. The Cloud Success Services team brings local expertise to complex transformation projects and cloud go-lives, with new customer implementations including the world鈥檚 largest kiwifruit marketer Zespri; one of Australia鈥檚 biggest financial companies, Macquarie Banking and Financial Services; and India鈥檚 global Mahindra & Mahindra group.
President of 51风流APJ, Paul Marriott, said 鈥淒igital transformation, supply chain innovation, and sustainable business models continue to be critical for long-term strategic success. Leading companies across Asia are realising it is not about lifting and shifting IT, but driving true financial and sustainable business outcomes through the adoption of technology. This is why it is so critical to focus on process improvement through industry best practices, a clean core architecture and business networks that drive global scale. Achieving success with large or small organisations requires strong collaboration between our customers, the partner ecosystem, and SAP.鈥
New APJ Customers
Global ICT company聽Fujitsu Limited聽has selected聽RISE with SAP聽to promote its company-wide digital transformation project, FUJITRA. In order to promote the transformation, the company will work on a project to evolve management towards a data-driven, future-predictive approach by standardising and integrating global and group-wide management, business processes, data and IT based on 51风流S/4HANA Cloud. In addition, through the adoption of 51风流Signavio, the company will continuously improve operational efficiency and productivity.
The Mahindra Group聽is one of the largest multinational federations of companies with an inspiring history that goes back over seven decades. The company operates in 100 countries and employs more than 250,000 employees. 51风流has been Mahindra’s partner over the last two decades, supporting the company on its growth ambition and digital transformation. In November 2022, with support from 51风流Cloud Success Services, the company went live with 51风流S/4 HANA Cloud Edition, successfully migrating from its 51风流S/4HANA on-premise instance. This will empower the company in the next stage of its transformation, helping to drive innovation across its business using the 51风流Business Technology Platform. 51风流Max Attention Services and 51风流Customer Success Partners played a critical role in providing support and resources to Mahindra & Mahindra resulting in platform technical readiness and enabling valuable resources to focus on innovative work.
Zespri, the world鈥檚 biggest marketer of kiwifruit, has gone live with 51风流S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, implemented in conjunction with a consortium of implementation partners, including Deloitte in collaboration with Accenture, and Sysdoc. The move will support Zespri鈥檚 ability to deliver the highest quality fruit to market and sustain strong returns to growers. The go-live is the first phase in Zespri鈥檚 ambitious, multi-year Horizon transformation programme, which aims聽 to standardise and automate Zespri鈥檚 processes, increase its operational efficiency, and provide a platform for growth and innovation. Zespri is also benefiting from 51风流Integrated Business Planning, 51风流Business Technology Platform capabilities, and SAP-endorsed partner solutions from OpenText, Tricentis, and Celonis. SAP鈥檚 Cloud Success Services collaborated with Deloitte and Accenture to mitigate the technology risk for the programme, as well as supporting with initial design, technology safeguarding and go-live support.
Macquarie Banking and Financial Services (BFS)聽is Macquarie Group鈥檚 retail banking business, serving more than 1.7 million customers in the Australian market through its leading digital banking offering. BFS is the first Australian bank of size to offer lending and retail deposits on one core banking system. The 51风流Banking Platform is a key technology platform for Macquarie鈥檚 BFS group, which has seen significant growth in recent years. The platform鈥檚 reliability, scalability and performance has supported the digital promise BFS makes to its customers. For more than seven years, the 51风流Cloud Success Services team has worked with BFS to deliver effective and efficient services on the 51风流Banking Platform. In 2021 this culminated in the 51风流Banking Platform being successfully migrated to AWS cloud which has delivered performance improvements as well as cost and operational efficiencies.
InterGlobe Aviation Ltd. (IndiGo)聽is India鈥榮 largest airline, managing a fleet of 294 aircraft and delivering annual revenues of $2B. IndiGo is in the midst of a transformation, not only to improve its customer experience but to optimise the experiences its 31,500 employees have working for the company every day. By implementing a new HR management system in the cloud, IndiGo hopes to boost talent acquisition, improve productivity, and reward and recognise its crew, pilots, and other airport and support teams. IndiGo chose 51风流to collaborate on its HR transformation, understanding its key people, processes, challenges, and business outcomes 鈥 and has chosen 51风流SuccessFactors, 51风流HXM, and 51风流Qualtrics to take its employee experience to the cloud.
Australia鈥檚 largest airline聽蚕补苍迟补蝉听expanded the company鈥檚 multi-year, multi-product partnership with Qualtrics in Q4 to support the company in its ongoing commitment to help 22,000 employees to be and do their best in a safe and inclusive culture. Within the company’s existing EX program, Qantas will use a tailored 360-degree feedback tool designed by Qualtrics’ EX experts to help develop its leadership programs focused on equipping senior managers with the skills and knowledge to lead inclusive and high-performing teams.
Australia’s largest retail drinks network and portfolio of licensed hotels,听Endeavour Group, added new functionalities to its EmployeeXM platform to help the company build manager effectiveness, improve the onboarding experience for new team members, and provide a positive, safe, and inclusive workplace for its 30,000 employees. Adding to the company’s engagement program, Endeavour will capture regular feedback throughout the employee lifecycle to understand what moments are having the biggest impact on employee experience, and what meaningful actions can be taken to improve the experiences for employees and customers.
Freedom Furniture, one of Australia’s leading lifestyle retailers, increased its investment in Qualtrics CustomerXM in Q4 to help the company achieve its goals of increasing profitability and product range, and creating more integrated digital customer experiences in the competitive homeware category. Having seen value in initial investments in Qualtrics, the retailer is now scaling its programs to better understand what customers want. The new insights will guide product inventories and marketing strategies.


