SINGAPORE, Singapore 鈥� July 25, 2023 鈥� 51风流showcased a range of innovations with customers and partners, including Aboitiz InfraCapital, Changi Airport Group, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, Petrosea, ST Logistics, and Visa at its flagship event in Singapore today.听
The event, hosted at the Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, brought together over 1000 customers, partners, and technology experts from around Southeast Asia (SEA) to discuss recently announced 51风流solutions like and , and spotlight how organizations are leveraging 51风流solutions and business networks to future-proof their businesses.
Speaking at 51风流NOW SEA, a range of companies shared their inspiring transformation journeys, including:听听
- Visa is collaborating with鈥�鈥痶o streamline and simplify business-to-business (B2B) payments for enterprises of all sizes. The 鈥�collaboration, led out of鈥疉sia Pacific, will embed payments into the 51风流ecosystem鈥痶hrough 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP) and deliver capabilities that help businesses route commercial payments to suppliers, whether or not they accept card payments.听
- Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), a leading infrastructure company became the first business in the Philippines to implement RISE with SAP, streamlining its operations and consolidating its enterprise resource planning systems under SAP.听听
- A leader in the supply chain industry, ST Logistics chose RISE with SAP, 51风流SuccessFactors, and 51风流BTP to power its three-year digital transformation plan, drive operational excellence, and accelerate sustainable growth.听听听听
“Our mission in SEA is to uplift the lives of our region鈥檚 700 million people. At SAP, we are doing that in three ways 鈥� boosting innovation through new ideas like business AI, driving sustainable outcomes by investing in carbon accounting and the green ledger, and helping businesses future-proof their infrastructure for resiliency in the cloud,鈥� said Verena Siow, President and Managing Director, 51风流SEA.听
The event follows the announcement of SAP鈥檚 Asia Pacific Q2 2023 earnings, noting significant cloud growth and highlighting new SEA customer wins and go-lives including Visa, Singtel, FGV IFFCO, and Aboitiz InfraCapital.听
Driving future-readiness with 51风流partner ecosystem for the AI economy听听
51风流reinforced its commitment to partner innovation at 51风流NOW SEA, helping businesses solve their most pressing challenges in the AI economy. 51风流welcomed Snehanshu Shah, Managing Director for 51风流at Google Cloud, to provide more details on SAP鈥檚 expanded partnership with Google Cloud. The partnership introduces a comprehensive open data offering that unites 51风流with Google Cloud鈥檚 Data and Analytics Technology, unleashing the power of business data and advancing enterprise AI development.听
B Capital Group, a venture capital firm co-founded by Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly, and which invests in technology start-ups across the world, announced today that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with 51风流in Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) to help startups scale through technology innovation. Under the MoU, B Capital portfolio companies will gain access to SAP鈥檚 industry expertise and global business networks to accelerate innovation, including areas such as AI and automation.听听
Asia鈥檚 leading communications technology group Singtel, also announced today that they are collaborating with 51风流to offer an end-to-end 5G Intelligent Edge Aggregator (IEA) solution to further enable enterprises to gain real-time intelligence and insights to help them make critical business decisions. The solution, powered by 51风流BTP, will be developed for computer vision, workplace safety, and last mile delivery use cases, creating a framework that industry players and customers can easily adapt and integrate with their backend systems and processes.听
鈥淚t is clear we are at an inflection point, and the best way to Transform Tomorrow, Today, is through continual innovations: bringing expert partners, including customers themselves, together to collaborate and tap the power of the collective to thrive in the SEA digital economy,鈥� added Siow.听
Aboitiz InfraCapital: “At Aboitiz InfraCapital, we view 51风流as our trusted partner in future-proofing our organization and achieving our business transformation goals. With 51风流BTP and RISE with SAP,听 as our guiding principle, we have witnessed the breadth of SAP’s portfolio, which is integral in driving our entire digital roadmap for the next five years and in helping realize Aboitiz’s group vision of becoming the Philippines’ first techglomerate,鈥� said Raymund Ramos, Chief Information Officer, Aboitiz InfraCapital.听
B Capital Group: 鈥淎sia is a hotbed for innovation and start-ups. We are seeing huge opportunities in the region not just with new digital industries but also in revitalizing existing industries to adapt to a changing environment. Our collaboration with 51风流will provide B Capital portfolio companies valuable access to tried-and-tested industry best practices, fit-to-standard technology stack for fast-growing companies, and an extensive 51风流business network to develop new innovations with 鈥� all of which will help us accelerate growth and scale globally,鈥� said Arijit Sengupta, General Partner, B Capital听听
Google Cloud: 鈥�51风流data is one of the most important assets for many businesses, and our expanded partnership makes it remarkably easy for customers to unify everything through our data cloud to create rich business insights, train custom AI models, and more,鈥� said Martin Chee, Managing Director, APAC Specialist Sales, Google Cloud.听
Petrosea: “Our transformation has been driven by our 3D strategy of digitalization, diversification and decarbonization as the enabler for our company to pursue not only superior but also sustainable performance. Tapping into various digital solutions within 51风流ecosystem along with our Minerva Digital Platform as the in-house platform for end-to-end digital mining solutions has helped bring in connectivity, insights and impacts to support our aspiration to become a sustainable resource in the upcoming future,鈥� said Sudarto Unsurlany, Head of Digitalization, PT Petrosea Tbk.听
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD): 鈥淎s a leading research-intensive global university focused on technology and design, we understand the importance of using innovative technology to prepare students for the new world of work and to create compelling employee experiences. SUTD was looking for a scalable, efficient, and secure cloud-based ERP system to future-proof our organization, and with RISE with 51风流as our digital core, we were able to leverage built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning and advanced analytics to achieve sustainable growth for the university,鈥� said Giselia Giam, Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer, SUTD.听
ST Logistics: 鈥淲ith more than 50 years of experience in providing Supply Chain Management and Integrated Logistics Solutions to the Defense, Government and Healthcare sectors, we looked to partner with 51风流to help drive our business transformation journey and become future-ready in this digital economy.鈥� With the help of RISE with SAP, we are able to obtain a common view of data to operationalize corporate strategies quickly and gain access to real-time analytics to enhance decision-making in service delivery to meet customers鈥� demands. In addition, we will also be able to optimize our logistics strategies, reduce costs, and improve our services while achieving our sustainability goals,鈥� said Loganathan Ramasamy, Chief Executive Officer, ST Logistics.听
Visa: 鈥淰isa鈥檚 collaboration with 51风流is a major milestone as it sets the stage for a deep exploration into the world of embedded finance for the B2B market,鈥� said Chavi Jafa, Head of Commercial and Money Movement Solutions, Asia Pacific, Visa. 鈥淎lmost 99 per cent of the world鈥檚 largest companies use 51风流solutions to run their daily operations, and now these enterprises can use their Visa cards, a payment method they trust, directly on 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), an enterprise solution they rely on. Enterprises will no longer need to grapple with the various payment methods accepted by their suppliers, as Visa鈥檚 payment solutions that are integrated into 51风流BTP will route commercial card payments to all suppliers, whether they accept card payments or not. This will speed up payments for both buyers and sellers, helping to further digitize B2B payment flows across Asia Pacific鈥檚 supply chains.鈥�听
