LONDON, UK 鈥� 16 August 2022 – (NYSE: SAP) has today announced that Central Bedfordshire Council is the latest UK public sector organisation to select to modernise its IT and technology infrastructure in order to deliver efficient services to its local residents.

Having witnessed a boom in its number of residents the council is investing in technology to transform the ways it supports this growing community.

A long-time 51风流customer, having first started using 51风流in 2006, the Central Bedfordshire Council moved to the latest version of 51风流software, in September 2019. And now, with a stable 51风流service in place, the council is looking to upgrade to the latest cloud version of S4/HANA , deployed via a scalable, secure and highly resilient Microsoft Azure cloud-based infrastructure platform.

In addition to transforming its core ERP via the latest cloud version of 51风流S/4HANA, Central Bedfordshire Council will be leveraging , a new generation of cloud analytics combining all capabilities 鈥� including planning, predictive analytics & business intelligence in a single-software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

Cllr David Shelvey, Executive Member for Corporate Resources at Central Bedfordshire Council, comments: 鈥淐entral Bedfordshire Council aims to become a visionary within local government. Alongside delivering cost-savings and efficiencies, we want to enable fast and continuous adoption of future innovations that allow our employees to create the types of services that best suit the needs of our residents.鈥�

Satpal Biant, Head of Public Sector at , added: 鈥淥ur partnership with Central Bedfordshire Council is one we鈥檙e greatly proud of. It constantly wants to push the boundaries of what it can provide its residents, and with RISE with SAP, is ideally placed to meet that objective. They are one of many UK councils that use the latest 51风流technology and innovation, to make the most out of the investment in technology that it makes.鈥�

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LONDON, UK 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today announces it has grown its strategic partnership with leading UK airport operator, . As an existing partner of SAP, MAG has chosen RISE with 51风流in collaboration with AWS as the first step on its digital transformation journey across a number of key areas, from finance to people.

The Group, which operates Manchester, London Stanstead and East Midland airports, collectively saw 60 million passengers fly through its airports in 2019, and employed more than 40,000 people on site. Additionally, it has a 50% investment in the 拢1 billion, 5 million square foot development at Manchester Airport.

The pandemic had a devastating impact on international travel with passenger numbers at 1% of usual levels at its peak. As the Group started to see green shoots of recovery over the last few months, it spotted an opportunity to partner with 51风流as part of an initiative called 鈥楶roject Build Back Smarter鈥�.

This programme focused on total departmental transformation as well as the considerable assets under management. It identified as the foundation of this initiative, with a move to the Cloud helping to overhaul and streamline these extensive and complex business functions. The first phase of the move to RISE is a lift and shift of its existing ECC estate into the Cloud with a view to moving to 51风流S/4HANA Cloud in the near future. With its core Cloud ERP platform now in place, MAG will also be looking to maximise its and partnerships, to help create best-in-class experiences for finance teams and across its employees.

Due to the challenging backdrop of the past 18 months, 51风流worked closely with MAG to identify a roadmap to support its recovery through its Project Build Back Smarter initiative. Key to this relationship was 51风流understanding the challenges that MAG was currently experiencing, including reduced staffing through continued furlough schemes. Despite these challenges, MAG went live on RISE in March this year 鈥� marking the organisation鈥檚 first step on the road to transformation with 51风流over the next five years.

Nicholas Woods, CIO at Manchester Airport Group, said: 鈥淔ollowing a challenging period for the airport industry, we鈥檙e now seeing a resurgence in the number of people wanting to get away. As passenger numbers continue to increase, we need to be as agile as possible to deliver the best possible service for our customers and to respond to our colleagues鈥� needs in the workplace. Our 51风流partnership allows us to do just that, initially shifting key functions to the Cloud, with a view to completing a full digital transformation in the next few years.鈥�

Michiel Verhoeven, UK & Ireland Managing Director at SAP, added: 鈥淲e鈥檙e delighted to be supporting Manchester Airports Group as it embarks on its journey towards full digital transformation. The tourism industry has been profoundly affected over the last couple of years, but as MAG becomes more agile, automated and insights-driven, it is putting itself in the best possible position to take off as global restrictions ease.鈥�

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LONDON, UK – (NYSE: SAP) has today announced that has become the first UK public sector organisation to select to modernise its IT and technology infrastructure, accelerate its transformation into the cloud and deliver efficient services to its local residents.

From council services to fire and rescue, GCC is responsible for providing a range of services to a local population of around . But with pressure on public services increasing as a result of the pandemic, it needed to reset its digital strategy to align with modern expectations of services.

Through RISE with SAP, GCC identified that , and , will best drive the transformation of the county council鈥檚 core capabilities, including finance, human resources, procurement and manager/employee self-service. The county council will be able to deliver automated and simplified business processes and real-time data insights that will modernise its existing services and enable timely, efficient support to residents.

What鈥檚 more, RISE with 51风流is empowering the council to simplify its IT estate and fully embrace the benefits of the cloud. RISE with 51风流will be adopted via the public sector Back Office Solutions framework; providing an approved modernisation process for other industry organisations to follow.

Steve Mawson, the Executive Director of Corporate Resources at Gloucestershire County Council said: 鈥淭he pandemic has accelerated a need to digitalise our services, and we needed a framework that would help us adapt to this new way of working, as well as a solution that would allow us to use data and analytics to improve the services we provide. After considerable market evaluation, 51风流stood out as not only meeting these requirements, but as offering the best value for money and providing the crucial future proofing element that we needed. As the first RISE with 51风流customer in the UK public sector, we鈥檙e excited to be paving the way for other public sector organisations looking to modernise their services.鈥�

Michiel Verhoeven, UK & Ireland Managing Director at SAP, added: 鈥淲e鈥檙e proud of our long-standing relationship with Gloucestershire County Council. Offering better speed, increased flexibility and greater scalability, transferring to the cloud will prove hugely valuable to the public sector as it adjusts to a post-pandemic world. As other industries progress and embrace the cloud, it鈥檚 important that the public sector is not left out of this transformation. That鈥檚 why we鈥檙e delighted to extend our partnership with Gloucestershire RISE with 51风流and see where we can take the council next.鈥�

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London, UK – (NYSE: SAP) today announces that it has extended its partnership with global logistics, consulting and manufacturing organisation, Unipart Group. An existing 51风流customer for 21 years, Unipart Group will now adopt S/4HANA on RISE with 51风流to embrace cloud innovation and evolve its business as an IT services-led company. The collaboration will also see Unipart Group strengthen its capability as an 51风流Systems Integrator to empower its own customers to transition to cloud technology under RISE with SAP.

With roots in the automotive industry, Unipart Group has built a reputation as an industry world leader in manufacturing, logistics and consultancy. Over time Unipart wants to use its extensive experience in logistics and ERP to commercialise solutions at pace and sell IT services beyond logistics, expanding its customer portfolio, which currently includes Jaguar Land Rover, Sky and NHS Supply Chain.

Turning to its existing partnership with 51风流to accelerate its transformation into an agile technology company, Unipart Group hosted joint workshops and discovery sessions to define the best path forward. Recognising the necessity of the cloud to support its service expansion, Unipart chose to adopt RISE with 51风流to provide the flexibility and bandwidth to scale its business and accelerate products to market. It can now enjoy access to a single Digital Core platform that delivers automated and simplified businesses processes, real-time data insights and near real-time sales and process visibility. This means it is better placed to understand and respond to the needs of customers and the wider market.

The move to embrace RISE with 51风流both as part of its own IT estate, as well as an 51风流Systems Integrator, ensures Unipart Group will significantly modernise its solutions and data architecture, offering its customers a product synonymous with a modern, innovative IT services company.

Yiannis Levantis, Group Chief Information Officer at Unipart, said: 鈥淩einvention is part of our DNA, it means our transformation journey is never finished and that we can always better serve and provide innovative solutions to our customers. As we look to shift our business model towards being an IT services company first, with deep expertise in logistics, manufacturing and supply chain, expanding our capabilities alongside 51风流has been the next step to make this a reality.鈥�

Michiel Verhoeven, UK & Ireland Managing Director at SAP, added: 鈥淲e鈥檙e proud of our long-standing relationship with an industry heavyweight in Unipart. As it evolves to become a truly digital-first company, RISE with 51风流is the perfect solution to enable faster, more agile, automated and insight-driven business services. With more than two decades already behind our partnership, we鈥檙e excited to see where we can take Unipart next.鈥�

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LONDON, UK 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today announced global healthcare solutions company , has selected with , the largest digital operating transformation provider to mid-market and mid-enterprise. The platform will support rapid growth and diversification at the Dublin-based innovator of healthcare services, facilitating greater control, collaboration and confidence. The initial project is anticipated to be live in December 2022, with roll-out to the company鈥檚 laboratories to follow in phase two.

LetsGetChecked experienced exponential growth since its founding in 2015. Having secured $71 Million in Series C funding, opened its first privately owned state-of-the-art laboratory in Monrovia, CA in the US, and delivered against overwhelmingly high demand for COVID-19 testing, a new platform had become imperative to underpin global operations and sustain future growth. The company closed a $150 million Series D round of financing in June 2021, which brought the total capital raised by LetsGetChecked to more than $260 million.

Having used cloud accounting application Xero since its inception, LetsGetChecked鈥檚 market potential and ambitious growth plans necessitated a more scalable, intelligent and comprehensive end-to-end platform, which would support the entire business. Crucially, the solution needed to support nuances such as complex LOT traceability,expiry date management, and regulatory compliance around patient health records.

Following a thorough evaluation of the market, LetsGetChecked selected from a shortlist comprising Netsuite and Microsoft. The decision was based on the system鈥檚 depth of capabilities, intelligence and scale as well as ease of use – access to for greater collaboration in procurement was also considered particularly valuable. Sapphire Systems was chosen as the deployment partner based on experience and expertise on similar projects and there was a strong cultural fit with the team.

鈥淲e鈥檝e seen massive disruption in the healthcare market as consumers and employers have become more and more comfortable with the concept of at-home testing and care, and this has catapulted our model extremely quickly,鈥� said Gary Fitzgerald, Group Financial Controller of LetsGetChecked.

鈥淥ur decision to invest in a world-class digital platform was pivotal to support our next stage of聽聽聽聽聽 growth and it quickly became clear that would be an excellent fit for our complex business model. Their system delivers automation, simplifies business processes in the cloud, provides real-time business insights and visibility of the entire sales, inventory and fulfilment lifecycle. Complementing the platform, Sapphire Systems understands all our complexities and specific needs. Their team worked closely with us to scope out the right project methodology and expedite performance,鈥� continued Fitzgerald.

鈥淚f there is one thing the last two years have taught us, it is that speed of change and adaptability to change defines success,鈥� comments Chris Gabriel, Chief Strategy Office for Sapphire. 鈥淲e are incredibly excited to be partnering with LetsGetChecked and 51风流to deliver the powerful combination of speed and RISE adaptability to create the digital operating platform that will now sit at the core.鈥�

鈥淩ISE with 51风流is designed to help organisations deploy in the most straightforward, structured way possible, enabling their digital transformation in the cloud,鈥� comments Michiel Verhoeven, managing director for . 鈥淲e have a great sense of pride from servicing high growth, market innovators such as LetsGetChecked. Through the strength of Sapphire Systems as a quality 51风流Partner, RISE will enable a faster time to deploy, implementation of standard processes and innovation outside the core.鈥�

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With the Covid-19 pandemic creating an exponential e-commerce growth and changing the role of the retail store as consumers shop in different ways, Asda was looking for a digital platform that would improve its understanding of changing customer behaviours, while also ensuring business continuity via improved response to rapidly fluctuating supply chain disruption.

The move to will provide Asda with an agile and single Digital Core platform to deliver automation and simplification of business processes in the cloud, enhanced (consumer-grade) user experience, real-time data and insights and near real-time sales, inventory and process visibility. This will enable the business to respond more adeptly to the needs and behaviours of its customers and the wider market.

With its adoption of 51风流Ariba solutions for sourcing, buying and invoicing, contracts, spend analysis, supplier lifecycle and performance, supplier risk and commerce automation over Ariba Network, Asda will standardise and streamline its procurement processes across the organisation and expects to enhance data-driven intelligence, pricing optimisation and supply chain visibility. By improving supplier relationships and spend compliance, Asda aims to mitigate risk, reduce waste and achieve long-term resiliency against supply chain disruption.

With over 600 stores and 140,000 employees serving 18 million customers every week, Asda has been the lowest cost supermarket in the UK for 24 consecutive years, according to The Grocer magazine, while its fashion arm george is the second largest fashion brand by volume in the UK.

Following its acquisition by the Issa Brothers and TDR Capital from Walmart earlier this year, Asda is transitioning from its legacy solutions and embarking on an accelerated digital transformation strategy to better manage its end-to-end business operations. This includes commercial, procurement, supply chain, logistics and retail operations.

Carl Dawson, Chief Information Officer at Asda, said: 鈥淲e are embarking on an exciting business transformation for our Future as part of our separation from Walmart. We have chosen 51风流as our Digital Core partner for its market leading real-time business platforms and proven experience in retail and delivery. Through RISE with SAP, we are looking forward to building on our strategic relationship and achieving Asda鈥檚 goals for now and the future in the dynamic retail industry.鈥�

Rohit Nagarajan, President EMEA North 51风流said, 鈥淲e are incredibly proud of the long standing partnership we have built with Asda over the years. This organisation has been at the forefront of one of the industries most prominent throughout the recent pandemic, which has highlighted how important it is that as a business it continues to evolve to put its customers and families all over the UK, at the heart of its organisation. This next phase of business innovation will undoubtedly mean Asda will be able to supercharge its operations, streamline processes and harness the power of its data for increased insight and real time business decision making and we look forward to supporting them on this next phase of growth and into the future.鈥�

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