Sydney 鈥� SEPTEMBER 2, 2024 鈥� 麻豆原创 announced the winners of the sixth annual 麻豆原创 Best Run Awards for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), celebrating the top companies and people using 麻豆原创 products to turn insight into action, drive innovation and transform their businesses.

The awards are open to customers and partners leveraging 麻豆原创 products or technology. Entrants were encouraged to showcase new ways of thinking, disruptive use cases and the deployment of technologies that set the benchmark for their industry and make the world run better.

Winning entries showcased implementations demonstrating excellence in optimising business processes, improving productivity and reducing costs, and providing real-time insights. Many also highlighted impressive implementations leading to increased employee satisfaction, reduced turnover and overall business success.

The awards recognise 14 winners across categories including Next Gen Innovator, Capital Management, Business Transformation, Intelligent ERP Enterprise and Data Supply Chain, among many more. A new Business AI category attracted inspiring entries resulting in joint winners.

Additionally, the 麻豆原创 Chris O鈥橞rien Award recognises organisations that have successfully implemented 麻豆原创 solutions to achieve sustainability goals, improve social impact and create shared value for stakeholders. was recognised as this year’s winner for its implementation of 麻豆原创 Datasphere and Sustainability Control Tower to empower sustainable change through climate reporting.

The winners were announced in-person at Pier One Sydney, at the event hosted by Angela Colantuono, President and Managing Director of 麻豆原创 ANZ, on Friday August 30.

Colantuono said: 鈥淲e are thrilled to recognise the incredible achievements of our valued customer and partner community over the past year. We鈥檙e navigating testing market right now, so it鈥檚 encouraging businesses in ANZ are turning to technology and data to provide the certainty they need to make the right decisions and bring out their best.

鈥淚 am in awe of our winners and finalists 鈥� each representing businesses that have brought bold visions to life and driven real-world results. And it鈥檚 great to see cutting-edge innovation in the new Business AI category. I can鈥檛 wait to see what our customers and partners do next in 2025.鈥�

The winners and runners-up of 麻豆原创 Best Run Awards 2024 for ANZ are:

麻豆原创 Human Capital Management

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麻豆原创 Next Gen Innovator

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麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend & Business Network

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麻豆原创 Business Transformation

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麻豆原创 Customer Experience

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麻豆原创 Intelligent ERP

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麻豆原创 Data & Analytics

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麻豆原创 Data Supply Chain

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麻豆原创 Industry Disruptor

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麻豆原创 Concur

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麻豆原创 ERP Fast Growth

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麻豆原创 Chris O鈥橞rien Award

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麻豆原创 Business AI

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The announcement, made at 麻豆原创 Australia and New Zealand鈥檚 flagship customer event 麻豆原创 NOW ANZ, details how Atturra turned to 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors to help overhaul its employee experience, which was hampered by basic HR systems and a reliance on fragmented and manually tracked spreadsheets and documents.

As Atturra鈥檚 team quickly expanded, the administrative workload to manage the larger team became a bottleneck, causing HR process delays and affecting the quality of employee engagement. Performance reviews were less frequent, employee and organisational data quality suffered, and the lack of a structured training platform hindered growth opportunities, affecting both individual and business development.

To address these challenges, Atturra worked with Discovery Consulting to begin implementing 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors into its operations in October 2022. The rollout was completed in October 2023 and included core HR services, including Employee Central, Onboarding, Learning, Performance & Goals, and Recruiting. The phased rollout approach gave staff time to establish a change management framework and manage the cultural transition, granting greater insight into Atturra鈥檚 people data before implementing tailored performance and learning objectives.

The business has already felt the positive impact of its decision. Atturra now has an automated onboarding process and provides its employees with access to self-service tools, as well as improved access to learning resources and compliance training. Since the implementation, the organisation has seen a 78 per cent increase in accuracy of high-quality employee and organisational HR data; a 49 per cent decrease in the average time managers spend on administrative HR-related tasks; and staff turnover has also reduced by 15 per cent.

Speaking at 麻豆原创 NOW ANZ, Atturra鈥檚 Chief Operating Officer, David Dekker, said, 鈥淎s a company that prides itself on helping clients embrace the tools of the future, we saw how relying on better technology would support our growth and deliver a first-class experience to our people. Implementing 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors has streamlined our onboarding process, allowing new team members to settle in and start learning and contributing faster. In the second phase we added further functionalities with the Performance & Goals, Learning and Recruiting modules. This has been a game changer in promoting a culture of continuous development, boosting employee engagement and supporting our goals for sustainable growth and innovation.鈥�

麻豆原创 Australia and New Zealand鈥檚 President and Managing Director, Angela Colantuono, said, 鈥淚mplementing 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors had an immediate, positive impact on Atturra鈥檚 employee management, engagement and retention. From helping to improve its HR systems to better managing its growing team, to refining the onboarding experience from day one, the result was a transformative HR experience that supports and accelerates Atturra鈥檚 growth.鈥�

Discovery Consulting Group鈥檚 Managing Partner, Alistair Elloitt, said, 鈥淭he implementation of 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors enabled Atturra to drive change in its employee lifecycle management system, underpinned by strong project governance and the continued support and communication from leadership. The willingness to not only adopt new systems but also support organisational change to achieve benefits across the organisation and for their people is a testament to the team at Atturra.鈥�

Atturra continues to refine its performance goals and development processes through 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors, improving workflows and automations to increase authentic employee engagement, particularly in remote work teams, and use the platform鈥檚 analytics tools to identify retention risks.

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When organizations fully harness the power of their data, they become enterprises that use it to innovate faster, create new revenue streams, and adapt to unanticipated changes.

At 麻豆原创, we know the opportunity to capture and use data strategically has never been more paramount. Today, we鈥檙e taking a significant step forward 鈥� along with other leaders in our industry 鈥� to enable customers to simplify their data landscape and unleash the power of business data.

Announcing 麻豆原创 Datasphere

We are excited to announce听, a comprehensive data service built on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP) that enables every data professional to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. With a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization, 麻豆原创 Datasphere enables data professionals to easily distribute mission-critical business data 鈥� with business context and logic preserved 鈥� across the data landscape.

麻豆原创 Datasphere is the next generation of 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud. We have kept all the capabilities that customers love using today and added new capabilities that enhance the discovery, modeling, and distribution of mission-critical business data. Existing 麻豆原创 Data Warehouse Cloud customers will automatically see the new functionalities in their product environment today and can continue running their workloads without disruption 鈥� no migration necessary.

麻豆原创 Datasphere offers a range of benefits for businesses to enhance their data strategies.

Access Authoritative Data

麻豆原创 Datasphere provides a direct line to mission-critical business data and metadata 鈥� and the critical relationship between them 鈥� from 麻豆原创 applications. It makes it effortless for data professionals to solve complex business semantic modeling requirements via the new 麻豆原创 Datasphere Analytic Model. This capability provides accelerated time-to-value by automatically reusing the semantical definitions and associations from 麻豆原创 applications, simplifying the steps data professionals must take to deliver mission-critical business data across their organization. We have also made it easier to automatically discover, manage, and govern your data with 麻豆原创 Datasphere Catalog. Additionally, cataloging data stored in 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud and 麻豆原创 Datasphere will be provided at no additional charge.

Enrich All Data Projects

麻豆原创 Datasphere enables organizations to combine all their data and implement transformations that help ensure everyone is always working off the same data. It supports both data federation and new fast data replication, offering powerful options to combine data sources and harmonize heterogeneous data into a business semantic model of customers鈥� diverse data landscapes. Access to industry data is now even easier with 麻豆原创 Datasphere Marketplace, which has more than 3,000 curated data sets that can be acquired at the touch of a button to quickly enrich data projects with topical, trusted data. Moreover, we are announcing partnerships with industry-leading open data partners to closely integrate their data and artificial intelligence (AI) platforms with 麻豆原创 Datasphere to enable customers to combine 麻豆原创 data with other data sources unlike ever before.

Simplify the Data Landscape

麻豆原创 Datasphere runs in every cloud and against hybrid environments. This flexibility allows data professionals to have secure access to all their data no matter where it resides. It also enables customers to maximize their on-premise investments, such as 麻豆原创 Business Warehouse (麻豆原创 BW). 麻豆原创 Datasphere, BW bridge, enables the reuse of 麻豆原创 BW models and connectors, providing a transition path to the public cloud for 麻豆原创 NetWeaver BW and 麻豆原创 BW/4HANA customers. Once data is integrated, harmonized, and improved in 麻豆原创 Datasphere, data professionals can use 麻豆原创 Datasphere Spaces 鈥� a feature to organize, group, and manage data as well as control the level of visibility and collaboration 鈥� to create a 鈥渧irtual workspace.鈥� These virtual workspaces can then be delivered to data consumers that rely on packaged data such as marketing, sales, supply chain, or partner data and AI teams.

麻豆原创 Datasphere can make real the promise of business data being an always-on, always high-quality resource that can be relied on 鈥� without having to second guess if it is fit for purpose.

Building a Powerful Open Data Ecosystem Around 麻豆原创 Datasphere

In a major moment for our industry and customers, 麻豆原创 is partnering with other open data partners 鈥�,听,听, and听听鈥� to radically simplify customers鈥� data landscapes with a business data fabric. By closely integrating their data and AI platforms with 麻豆原创 Datasphere, organizations can now access their mission-critical business data across any cloud infrastructure.

Each of these strategic partners bring the unique strengths of their ecosystems:

• Databricks听integrates 麻豆原创 data, with its complete business context, with its Data Lakehouse platform
• Collibra听future proofs data governance, privacy, and compliance initiatives
• 颁辞苍蹿濒耻别苍迟听sets data in motion with its data streaming platform
• DataRobot听empowers organizations to leverage augmented intelligence with automated machine learning

Delivering a Business Data Fabric

麻豆原创 Datasphere, and its open data ecosystem, is the technology foundation that enables a business data fabric. This is a data management architecture that focuses on delivering an integrated, semantically rich data layer over underlying data landscapes to provide seamless and scalable access to data without duplication. A business data fabric equips any organization to deliver meaningful data to every data consumer 鈥� with business context and logic intact. As organizations need accurate data that is quickly available and described with business-friendly terms, this approach enables data professionals to permeate the clarity that business semantics provide throughout every use case.

鈥淭he business data fabric architecture enables us to bring 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 data together in the seamless and self-service way we鈥檝e been envisioning. 麻豆原创 Datasphere provided us with a solution to build a harmonized layer across 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创, cloud, or on-premise data sources, making the best use of our existing investments in 麻豆原创, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, and Oracle.鈥�

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麻豆原创 Datasphere represents the tailored integration point for all partners enabling customers to connect, unify, and manage 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 data unlike ever before. With the support of some of the world鈥檚 most renowned advisory firms, such as Accenture, CapGemini, Deloitte, EY, IBM, and听, every organization can enable a business data fabric to deliver meaningful data to their data consumers.

We welcome all partners to join us in the mission of empowering customers to unleash the power of business data.

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• 搁别补诲听A Deeper Look Into How 麻豆原创 Datasphere Enables a Business Data Fabric, by Juergen Muller, CTO and member of the Executive Board of 麻豆原创 SE

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Celebrating the outstanding achievements of 麻豆原创鈥檚 best-performing partners over the past year, the awards cover six categories including excellence in innovation, customer engagement and cloud delivery. The categories aim to reflect how partners are helping customers achieve their ambitions and continue to grow, especially in the cloud.

Winning entries ranged from projects aimed at tackling significant business issues, from the skills gap and capacity challenges, through to employee education, and compliance.

The full list of winners of the 麻豆原创 New Zealand Partner Excellence Awards 2023 are:

The presentation ceremony took place as part of 麻豆原创 New Zealand鈥檚 Partner Kick Off Meeting. The event was held at Auckland鈥檚 Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and hosted by Adrian Griffin, Managing Director, 麻豆原创 New Zealand and Mark Hettler, Head of Partners and Channels at 麻豆原创 Australia and New Zealand.

Adrian Griffin, Managing Director, 麻豆原创 New Zealand, said, 鈥淲e are delighted to host the first New Zealand 麻豆原创 Partner Excellence Awards. These awards are a testament to crucial role our partners play in supporting New Zealand businesses to grow and succeed, and show how we have been able to work together to help 麻豆原创 customers navigate the market uncertainty of the past year and the lingering impact of the pandemic. The submissions received demonstrate the thriving innovation, creativity and collaboration happening across the country.鈥�

Gareth Glover, Partner, Deloitte New Zealand, said, 鈥淲e are thrilled to be recognised as 麻豆原创鈥檚 NZ Partner of the Year 2023, and for our innovative work on 麻豆原创鈥檚 BTP platform. 麻豆原创鈥檚 decision to bring its Partner Excellence Awards to New Zealand this year, for the first time, demonstrates the value it places on its partners and the crucial work we鈥檙e doing across New Zealand to support 麻豆原创 customers. We鈥檙e looking forward to doing more great work together with 麻豆原创 and our customers in 2023 and beyond鈥�.

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A cohort of both education and technology partners have come together with the aim of launching NSW as the nation鈥檚 leading provider of digital skills, combining world-class facilities with an industry-driven education model.

As an industry partner, 麻豆原创 is supporting the institute in co-designing and delivering specific courses in key disciplines such as data management, software development, and cloud computing.

Students of TAFE NSW and the IAT will have access to a number of free learning modules via , and , and from mid-year, the first two 麻豆原创 courses will be available at the IAT:

• S/4 HANA Financial Accounting for 麻豆原创 Consultants
• S/4 HANA Management Accounting for 麻豆原创 Consultants

Additional courses will be added as the IAT matures, and are specifically being designed to focus on areas of skills shortages.

Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Australia and New Zealand said on the opening:

鈥淲e need more, and better, digital skills in Australia, but reaching the numbers and level of skill needed requires us to invest in new and different ways of finding and fostering talent.

鈥淲hich is why we鈥檙e really excited to partner with the Institute of Applied Technology (IAT) 鈥� Digital, at TAFE NSW Meadowbank. More than 800 students are due to be trained in 麻豆原创 skills through the Institute over the next five years, which will bring new capabilities, value and experience to our customers and the broader 麻豆原创 ecosystem.鈥�

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Sydney, Australia 鈥� 17 January 2023 – (NYSE: 麻豆原创) announced today that Origin Energy has achieved significant business and employee experience benefits through implementing a new suite of 麻豆原创 ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions, and modernising its payroll, time, and attendance platforms.

Origin Energy, one of Australia’s leading energy retailers, needed to bring its complex business processes into a single, consolidated view, to ensure continuous and effective service of its customers around Australia. With DXC Technology acting as the implementation partner, Origin Energy integrated multiple 麻豆原创 solutions onto its system, including: 麻豆原创 S/4 HANA, 麻豆原创 Ariba, 麻豆原创 Concur, 麻豆原创 Asset Manager, 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud, OpenText VIM and xECM.

Adopting a two-stage release strategy, the first release went live in April 2021, with the second in July 2021. Despite the impact of the pandemic and much of the team working remotely, Origin Energy was able to successfully migrate existing data and integrate with non-麻豆原创 systems. Since implementation, Origin Energy has seen a reduction in reconciliations of over 90 per cent compared to the previous ERP and can now make decisions more rapidly and confidently based on increased visibility and control over data.

鈥淐onsolidating and upgrading our system to 麻豆原创 means we鈥檙e now able to see the complete picture, remove risk from our asset management practices and realise significant savings out to the end of FY24. There鈥檚 been high impact since implementation across the business; for example, Origin can now plan maintenance activities more effectively because all our data is in one system 鈥� creating visibility across our entire Generation portfolio. Increased speed and efficiency are pivotal to ensuring Origin has a greater focus on getting energy right for our customers,鈥� said Glenn Joseph, Head of ERP, Planning & Reporting Systems, Origin Energy.

As part of a broader initiative to adopt a digital first strategy, Origin also took the opportunity to modernise systems within its P&C (People & Culture) function. As part of this, the organisation implemented 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll to replace its previous payroll platform. In parallel, a new time management application was also introduced to automate complex award entitlements. Through the use of 麻豆原创 Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), Origin was able to leverage pre-built integrations to seamlessly integrate its core P&C systems. Following the new P&C system implementations, Origin has streamlined processes, with 90 per cent of employees now paid fortnightly with standardised pay cycles, alongside a huge culture shift for the team on how they record time and apply employment awards.

To further progress the digital journey, Origin Energy develop a customised self-serve HR portal, to host all policies, procedures and employee-facing content in one place to simplify and improve the employee experience. This has resulted in an over 50 per cent reduction in volume of inbound employee tickets raised with HR, delivering a more positive and empowering employee experience across the business.

鈥淭he energy market is undergoing a significant transition, and having the right technology in place can go a long way in helping organisations drive efficiency and save costs. By supporting Origin Energy鈥檚 ERP upgrade, 麻豆原创 has helped it gain greater visibility over its assets, meaning it can deliver more accurate energy to its customers,鈥� said Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Australia and New Zealand.

鈥淲e鈥檙e also proud of the work we鈥檝e done to modernise Origin Energy鈥檚 people and culture function, making payroll and timekeeping simpler so that teams can focus more of their time, energy and resource on performing higher value tasks,鈥� continued Bueno.

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The award is an acknowledgment of the long-standing strategic partnership between the two companies that has been in place for over 15 years. During this period Woolworths Group has adopted 麻豆原创 technology across its retail and corporate operations, increasingly in the cloud since 2013, as well as played a pivotal role in many of 麻豆原创鈥檚 global advisory boards, which influence product development and roadmaps.

麻豆原创 technology supports Woolworths Group in ultimately getting groceries in the hands of consumers, through the enablement of many of its critical business processes. This includes the ordering of goods, driving promotions and managing inventory, as well as supporting business functions such as finance, procurement, and people.

鈥淭hrough these endeavours, and others, 麻豆原创 has demonstrated true strategic partnering in deed as well as in word and we look forward to many years of continued partnership,鈥� John Hunt, Woolworths Group Chief Information Officer, shared.

The Woolworths Group听Technology Awards have been running for five years, recognising and celebrating strong partnerships in the retail technology space.

Evan Mantis, Executive General Manager, Enterprise Industries & Growth Markets, 麻豆原创 ANZ, said on the win: 鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled and honoured to be named as the Woolworths Group Technology Partner of Year. To play a part in helping Woolworths serve over 22 million customers each week, and by supporting their nearly 200,000 team members across Australia and New Zealand through our technology, is something that we are incredibly proud of.鈥�

He concluded, 鈥淗elping our customers to run at their best is very important to us, so to be acknowledged through winning this award is testament to the effort put in by so many talented individuals over many years. When our customers succeed, we succeed, so I look forward to many more years of partnership with Woolworths!鈥�

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麻豆原创 NEWSBYTE 鈥� 14 November 2022 鈥� (NYSE: 麻豆原创) today announced that Zespri, the world鈥檚 biggest marketer of kiwifruit, has gone live with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, private edition. 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 of this new technology, which took place on 1 November 2022, is the first phase in Zespri鈥檚 ambitious, multi-year Horizon transformation programme. The aim of the programme is to standardise and automate Zespri鈥檚 processes, increase its operational efficiency, and provide a platform for growth and innovation.

As a result of the implementation, Zespri hope to deliver kiwifruit to customers more effectively. Ultimately a more robust, transparent and reliable process will support its entire product delivery system, from the receipt of a sales order, to payments for product, through to distribution. Zespri鈥檚 quality management solutions will include proof that the product has been grown and handled in accordance with regulatory, customer specifications and consumer expectations.

With a focus on creating global consistency, almost 1000 full-time employees and contractors across offices in 17 countries will benefit from the implementation, with Zespri also undertaking its biggest-ever training programme.

As well as the move to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning (IBP) has been implemented to provide a more efficient end to end demand and supply planning capability.

Zespri will also take advantage of capabilities, including , 麻豆原创 Integration Suite, the 麻豆原创 Extension Suite, and 麻豆原创-endorsed partner solutions from OpenText, Tricentis, and Celonis.

The 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud (SAC) platform combines business intelligence, analytics, and planning, using best-of-breed data visualisations and dashboarding for analytics and insights. Fiori applications will generate real-time operational reporting right at the point of transaction capture. This will enable Zespri to turn data into intelligence that will help it gain business advantage, make better decisions, improve business performance and mitigate risk. Improved reporting will support informed, strategic and timely decision-making.

麻豆原创鈥檚 Cloud Success Services worked with Deloitte in collaboration with Accenture, to use the 麻豆原创 Delivery Framework to establish a premium engagements service focused on mitigating the technology risk for the program, supporting the partner with the initial design, technology safeguarding, and go-live support.

Commenting on the successful go-live of this first phase, Dave Scullin, Zespri鈥檚 Chief Digital Officer, said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e known for a long time that our legacy systems were no longer scalable and fit for purpose. We underinvested in them for many years, to a point where they would hold us back, reduce our efficiency and effectiveness, and create real risk for the business. We had to change.

鈥淲e鈥檝e selected the latest generation 麻豆原创 applications as our core enterprise platform, but to view this simply as a digital project would be wrong. The Horizon Programme aims for transformational change, supporting a truly integrated end-to-end business.鈥�

Paul Marriott, President, 麻豆原创 Asia Pacific Japan, said: 鈥淶espri is one of our most forward-looking customers and their ambitious and proactive way of embracing their business transformation means they鈥檙e experience the benefits of RISE with 麻豆原创 across their entire business. We鈥檝e been working with Zespri for many years, and I look forward to the next phase of our journey, as Zespri continue to grow, deliver, and delight customers, while also sustaining returns to the industry and growers.鈥�

With the foundations now firmly in place and phase one complete, Zespri is looking forward to further developments, focusing on grower enablement and solutions for extended supply chain and quality management, integrated business planning and sales.

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Auckland, New Zealand 鈥� 20 September 2022 鈥� New Zealand farmer-owned co-operative Ballance Agri-Nutrients (Ballance) has successfully completed the first phase of a multi-year cloud program, migrating to 麻豆原创 cloud solutions, 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS), to deliver greater business value to its farmers.

The migration was achieved in just five months, to avoid running into peak farming season and prevent delays to Ballance鈥檚 customer facing geospatial initiatives, and went live over a single weekend in March 2022.

By moving to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud private edition and 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform onto AWS in the first phase of its transformation, Ballance has established a stabilised core and solid foundation in the AWS cloud to drive and support future strategic deliveries, where it looks to further leverage the 麻豆原创 and AWS platforms to enhance its overall customer experience and digital offerings.

Ballance decision to engage 麻豆原创 and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and to partner with 麻豆原创鈥檚 Cloud Success Services to manage the availability, performance and maintenance of its cloud infrastructure has allowed Ballance to reduce demand on internal resources by 10 per cent, shifting its focus from delivering operational support and maintenance to driving value through on-farm digital services for its customers.

David Healy, Chief Digital Officer at Ballance, said, 鈥淲e selected 麻豆原创 and AWS as partners because of their deep knowledge and history of migrating existing 麻豆原创 environments into the cloud and their focus and alignment to enabling Ballance鈥檚 future geospatial and on-farm application initiatives. They understood the urgency and importance of this phase and created a seamless and rapid transition for us.鈥�

鈥淲e had initial concerns around performance, shifting from architecture hosted in New Zealand to the cloud hosted in Australia, however the performance is much more consistent and stable, and more importantly we now have the ability to scale when required during our seasonal peaks which is critical for us. Knowing that there is a team dedicated to looking after the environment, managing security, availability and maintenance has really allowed us to focus on delivering value to our customers.鈥�

Ballance has been running 麻豆原创 since 2009 and saw an opportunity to use the technology more effectively.

鈥淭he way I put it, is we had a Rolls Royce in the garage, but we were not servicing and maintaining it. Everything was just in time, and we were always lagging on updates and as a result other work and deliverables. The service and maintenance alone have been a huge improvement, especially for security, stability and time for us, the stats speak for themselves 鈥� 10 per cent reduction in FTE managing their core 麻豆原创 environment, 20 per cent reduction in 麻豆原创 support and maintenance, 70 per cent reduction in workload managing hardware and resource upgrades and 99.9 per cent availability of 麻豆原创 production environment鈥�. said David.

Key to the success of the project has been Ballance鈥檚 partnership with 麻豆原创 from the executive level through to the project team, which created an open, transparent environment for problem solving. It became a joint project dedicated to ensuring a smooth transition. The deep product knowledge of the 麻豆原创 team resulted in faster resolution of any technical issues.

Phil听Cameron, Chief Operating Officer, 麻豆原创 Australia and New Zealand, said,听鈥淏allance听Agri-Nutrients鈥� migration to 麻豆原创 cloud solutions, achieved in just five months, is evidence of the value RISE with 麻豆原创 is delivering to customers. By moving to the cloud,听Ballance听is able to spend more time and resource on driving greater value for its customers, rather than on keeping its systems running. We鈥檙e incredibly proud of our partnership and of how 麻豆原创 technology is supporting听Ballance听to achieve its ambition of helping farmers work more productively, profitably, and sustainably鈥�.

Scene set for Phase II

The second phase of the program started in June 22 and focusses on enhancing Ballance’s existing 麻豆原创 Customer Experience Solutions, which power its farmer platform, MyBallance. The customer-facing platform will be moved to 麻豆原创 Commerce Cloud, which will enable Ballance to deliver more personalised geospatial experiences, products, and services to New Zealand farmers.

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The implementation gives Taronga鈥檚 executive team instant access to critical data-driven insight from across the organisation, providing greater insights into important commercial aspects such as guest feedback, admission trends, ticket sales and marketing effectiveness. The suite of reporting dashboards present key financial and operational performance metrics in an intuitive, easy-to-consume format, providing Taronga executives with the information they need for pivotal, real-time decision-making.听听

Taronga鈥檚 goal was to drive further efficiencies in support of its critical conservation work, following the successful migration of the organisation鈥檚 system to 麻豆原创 S4/HANA Cloud. With SAC, Taronga has simplified and modernised its manual and time intensive data consolidation and reporting processes through automation, reducing by 50 per cent the time required to prepare Taronga鈥檚 monthly management reporting packs. More importantly, the automation and improved insights enable Taronga staff to devote more time to higher value, strategic work, including allowing them to develop new ways to attract visitors and boost membership numbers.听听听听

鈥淚t鈥檚 not often that you associate back-office technology solutions with wildlife conservation, but 麻豆原创 has helped us to not only find operational efficiencies and cost savings, but to view the data that we gather in a way that ultimately helps us better deliver on our commitment to the conservation of wildlife in Australia and around the world. We have moved from having a limited, but not fully integrated business intelligence experience, to a state-of-the-art analytics and planning platform. Our long term partnership with 麻豆原创 has been instrumental in ensuring success of this 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud integration,鈥� said Mark Kemp, Project Manager, Information & Digital Technology, Taronga Conservation Society Australia.听听听

The implementation of SAC was driven jointly by 麻豆原创鈥檚 Cloud Success Services and Industries & Customer Advisory Innovation Experience, with the integration requiring the consolidation of data from disparate 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 source systems into a single, unified analytics platform with consistent data structures. 听

鈥淭he implementation of 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud provides Taronga with instant access to data from across its organisation, from ticket sales, to admissions trends and guest feedback. This greater level of insight enables Taronga鈥檚 executive team to make more informed decisions and develop new strategies to attract visitors, boost memberships and, ultimately, support its conservation work,鈥� said Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Australia and New Zealand.听听听

鈥淲e鈥檙e proud of our longstanding relationship with Taronga and how we have supported it to take full advantage of its data, streamline operations and find new opportunities to bolster its conversation efforts, and look forward to this continuing in the future.鈥澨�听

Taronga plans to roll out the reporting dashboards powered by SAC across finance, procurement, payroll and human resources in the near future.听

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