SAP to Accelerate Qatari Investors Group Cloud Transition
Qatar's business landscape is undergoing a digital transformation, with prominent local companies embracing cloud-based enterprise solutions to drive efficiency and agility. Leading this charge is Qatari Investors Group (QIG), a prominent diversified conglomerate that has inked a partnership with global technology company SAP that will enable it to leverage the benefits of SAP’s cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
The deal will see QIG move its mission-critical business processes from its legacy on-premises ERP software systems to SAP S/4HANA Cloud: an ERP solution that enables 360-degree visibility and greater control over all operations. The move will be accelerated through the adoption of RISE with SAP, a comprehensive subscription offering regular updates to make QIG more resilient and agile.
As part of the partnership, QIG's data will be hosted securely within Qatar, ensuring compliance with local data sovereignty regulations while enabling seamless access to real-time insights for informed decision making.
RISE with SAP enables QIG’s cloud transformation
Launched in January 2021, RISE with SAP offers a comprehensive solution that combines cloud software, infrastructure and services, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of cloud computing while modernising their business-critical processes and systems.
- Cloud Migration: The RISE with SAP Migration and Modernisation programme is tailored to each customer's unique starting point, providing a smooth, secure way to migrate on-premise SAP ECC and S/4HANA systems to the cloud. It follows a ‘clean core’ approach to take full advantage of the latest cloud innovations.
- Structured Methodology: The RISE with SAP Methodology captures best practices from thousands of successful customer implementations over three years. It provides a consistent, KPI-driven approach from planning to go-live to operations, helping customers meet their transformation goals.
- Guided Implementation: New enhancements include an onboarding experience with SAP advisors providing 1:1 guidance, recorded training, and quality checks to validate adherence to best practices - all to help customers implement cloud ERP with clarity and confidence.
- Business Agility: With a cloud-based core system, businesses gain agility, faster innovation cycles, and improved value realisation from their ERP investments as new capabilities get continuously delivered.
- Resilience & Compliance: Cloud ERP provides a resilient foundation with advanced security, compliance adherence, and business continuity capabilities that would be challenging to match on-premises.
With SAP’s S/4HANA Cloud offering at its core, RISE with SAP aims to unlock continued innovation and transformation for customers by modernising their business-critical processes and systems in a collaborative and measurable way.
By combining software, guided services, and a structured cloud adoption approach, RISE with SAP equips businesses to unlock innovation, boost agility, strengthen resilience and compliance and ultimately drive their digital transformation by leveraging intelligent, cloud-based ERP solutions. Today, global organisations such as Deutsche Telekom, AWS and Microsoft trust SAP to work on cloud transformations.
According to Joseph Abdo, Chief Executive Officer of QIG, the organisation worked closely with SAP to create a roadmap that was closely aligned with both the country’s digital transformation agenda and Qatar’s National Vision 2030 ambitions.
“We also wanted to ensure that we had real-time data and insights to respond rapidly to changes in the market, while delivering greater value to our customers,” he adds. “With RISE with SAP Cloud, we can transition to cloud without business risk, while gaining advantages from automated processes that allow us to concentrate on innovation and growth. We will see immediate benefits, such as streamlined operations and increased efficiencies, while setting ourselves up for long-term success, with automatic upgrades to new technologies and a scalable and flexible digital infrastructure.”
A key motivator for QIG in selecting SAP as its digital transformation partner was SAP’s deep expertise in multiple industries, and the ease of establishing an integrated platform to manage diverse operations. QIG’s subsidiaries and business interests include building and construction materials and services – such as the group’s flagship project, Al Khalij Cement Company – as well as technology, marine services, property, project development, contracting and financial services.
“In an intensely competitive market, QIG is known for being futuristic in outlook and effective in management, and this digital transformation is a prime example of this approach,” comments Alaa Jaber, Managing Director for SAP, Qatar and Fast Growth Markets. “RISE with SAP enables customers to adapt to fast-changing conditions, from rapidly evolving AI applications to cybersecurity threats. The deployment will make QIG increasingly resilient, efficient, and agile, while also allowing it to innovate more quickly and easily.”
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