Hardened platform to deliver local cloud services designed for听government and regulated industries

Canberra, Australia听鈥斕�听听(NYSE: 麻豆原创) today announced听麻豆原创 Critical Data Cloud, a fully managed service capable of powering the operations of government and regulated industries across both Australia and New Zealand

This is designed to help protect the core business applications of governments and highly regulated industries including financial services, healthcare and utilities. Planned to be operational in the second half of 2021, the platform is intended to support the Australian Government鈥檚听Official: Sensitive听and听Protected听information, enabling customers to make faster, more informed decisions and with greater peace of mind.

麻豆原创 Critical Data Cloud is a significant investment recognising the increased focus on improving whole-of-economy cybersecurity. The hardened platform provides customers the full functionality of 麻豆原创鈥檚 multi-tenanted cloud applications. 听It is initially available for human resources (麻豆原创 SuccessFactors) and 麻豆原创鈥檚 full suite of finance, analytics and machine learning applications (麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud and 麻豆原创 S/4HANA).

In addition to providing customers with the constantly evolving benefits of contemporary business cloud applications, 麻豆原创 Critical Data Cloud enables customers to extend functionality within the same certified framework. Importantly it also supports secure integration to other systems, for example public cloud, bespoke applications.

麻豆原创 Critical Data Cloud services and applications are continuously reviewed and hardened to ensure they stay current and are projected to meet evolving government security policy requirements. Customers are offered transparent assurance that data remains supported by appropriately cleared personnel.

鈥淭he legislative environment and cyber considerations in both Australia and New Zealand require organisations of different sizes to think hard about moving to cloud,鈥� Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Australia and New Zealand said.

鈥淚n support of those pursuing a cloud agenda, 麻豆原创 is providing a service that puts all its software and service assets in an environment that exhibits the cloud and security characteristics needed to meet the legislative and security requirements of government.

鈥淎s a global enterprise provider and supporter to some of the world鈥檚 largest organisations, we鈥檝e looked at how to drive efficiencies and provide customers with the capacity to deliver the sovereignty, security and confidence they need from a trusted platform. This follows the launch of听, providing customers with everything they need to transform their organisation in a way that works best for them.鈥�

Richard Bergman, Lead Partner for EY鈥檚 Oceania Cybersecurity, privacy and trusted technology practice, said, 鈥淧lanned changes to the Security of Critical Infrastructures Act and the increasing prevalence of foreign interference targeting the Australian public and private sector are driving an increasing need for sovereign cloud and security solutions and services.鈥�

鈥溌槎乖粹�檚 approach leveraging hardened patterns and templates is a great way of assisting Australian organisations to combat the increasing threat landscape and changing regulatory requirements,鈥� continued Mr Bergman.

Leveraging its work with听听(NS2), 麻豆原创 Critical Data Cloud is tailored for Australian and New Zealand legislative requirements. It empowers public and private customers to rapidly and safely digitise customer, citizen and employee services, while remaining current with legislation and policy. This reduces the cost and complexity of assessing and certifying multiple systems and platforms.

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We at 麻豆原创 know this because we have developed the best practices over decades with our customers in all industries. And we drive continuous innovation to deliver next practices that make business processes more efficient and transparent.

So far so good. Or is it?

Startup Spirit

I have observed a few trends affecting many industries that give me pause. Startups aggressively investigate how they can give incumbents a hard time by competing on different terms. They are not burdened by a customer base with expectations, there is no legacy 鈥� or treasure 鈥� of business relationships and commitments. There is nothing to break, nothing to protect.

Innovative big players are tuning into this spirit and looking along their value chains to directly engage with the customers of their customers, or to capture the revenue and margin their suppliers make today. Digital technologies and abundant 鈥� but still hardly exploited 鈥� data are the key ingredients to power the next wave of innovation and disruption for business models, business best practices, and the way businesses operate.

Crisis as a Catalyst

I have viewed the current crisis initially from the humanitarian perspective; after all, the pictures we have seen are hard to digest. But there is also the gigantic economic impact, and we expect a mix of V, L, and U shapes for the recovery and restart. But we can also observe how very large enterprise super tankers turn on a dime, innovate in days and weeks, and break established rules and habits.

New industries are shaping a public health sector that will look different as research institutes, life science companies, healthcare providers, technology companies, and the public sector work on keeping the world population safe and healthy. I have the opportunity to see this firsthand. 麻豆原创 plays an instrumental role in developing a听COVID-19听tracking app for Germany and beyond in close collaboration with public health institutions (Robert Koch Institute), government, and tech companies, including T-Systems, Google, and Apple (for the smartphone APIs). It is quite an experience to see how tech giants and government fall into a collaborative innovation mode rather quickly.

New Business Models, New Speed of Innovation?

Many 麻豆原创 customers in their industries feel a similar sense of urgency as business practices are redefined by market pressure and by digital technologies that enable new, data-driven business models 鈥� innovative ways to generate revenue streams from knowledge, data, and customer insights.

Over decades, 麻豆原创 has earned a reputation for being possibly the most reliable partner to solve the most difficult business problems with best practice solutions that service many customers. But when fast-paced innovation is a critical success factor not all innovative solutions can be added into the large applications of our intelligent suite. The upgrade effort would be too high to allow for a rapid adoption of innovations. What鈥檚 more, the clear path to the cloud for enterprise software disrupts our partners鈥� business model of adding new capabilities to 麻豆原创 Business Suite by modifying and extending code in our joint customers鈥� systems.

The obvious consequence is that we need a new innovation model and extension model for our intelligent suite and our business network.

Industry Cloud: A New Response to a New Challenge

Our new industry cloud is an open yet integrated innovation space for 麻豆原创, partners, and customers, which provides both best-practice business processes and advanced digital technologies to create next business practices and innovate at the vertical edge.

The processes and data domains of the intelligent suite are a key asset for our customers. Many developer years and significant brainpower have gone into creating business best practices for all industries that take care of the business essentials. We make those capabilities available through open APIs and expose the business process and domain models.

This open integration layer gives us, our partners, and customers a structured access to build next practice solutions that optimise the end-to-end processes supporting our customers鈥� current business models with 鈥渘ext practices.鈥�

The industry cloud is also the innovation space for experiment and exploration. All digital technologies of the Business Technology Platform are available, including machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, and blockchain to drive innovation at the 鈥渧ertical edge鈥� 鈥� trying out ideas that may fail or enable our customers鈥� breakthrough to develop successful data-driven or ecosystem-driven business models.

The industry cloud also makes development of new solutions easy, with business services that provide common functionality like currency conversion but also subscription management, billing, and other services that create a simple and unified user and customer experience. For more information, see the听.

Starting the New Ecosystem for Innovation

To jump-start the wide adoption of the industry cloud as an innovation space, we have selected an initial set of four industries that span a wide spectrum of processes and business priorities.

听companies are currently balancing their classical, sophisticated business models with the disruptive forces of new mobility.听听are managing the transition to renewable energies and the new opportunities from a redefined relationship with their commercial and retail customers.听听businesses have long been at the leading edge of digital innovation, and听听is catching up rapidly with digital twins of buildings and capital assets for intelligent operations and new service offerings (read the听partnership announcement听we made with Honeywell last week).

Industry 4.Now

Many industries are looking forward to capitalising on the promise of integration operational data from the shop floor with the data coming from business IT. This convergence benefits both the manufacturers of vehicles, industrial machinery, or buildings as well as the industries that use this equipment to make chemicals or mill products, operate buildings, drive logistics services, or run mining and oil and gas operations.

Our Industry 4.Now initiative is an integral part of the industry cloud strategy and we are already on our way.

Beginning of a Journey

We are starting a multi-year journey to write a new chapter how we drive innovation with our partners for the core business of our customers in their industries.

More industries will join this initiative every quarter and I look forward to the innovations and to the vibrant ecosystem of customers and partners that the industry cloud will foster and shape.

Peter Maier is president of Industries and Customer Advisory at 麻豆原创.

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鈥淚鈥檓 asking you and all of us to become resilient, sustainable, and profitable companies,鈥� he said. 鈥淭ogether, as intelligent enterprises, we can turn the world鈥檚 biggest challenges into our greatest opportunities. The recent听pandemic听is a crisis that will drastically impact societies and business for months and probably years. Digital transformation is no longer an option, but a must.鈥�

Klein brilliantly brought the intelligent enterprise to life, spotlighting 麻豆原创鈥檚 newly launched听Climate 21听program for sustainable and profitable business, as well as the company鈥檚听. Joined by customers and experts during the virtual broadcast, Klein reaffirmed 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to customer success, as well as partnerships with customers like Porsche for business adaptability and growth.

麻豆原创PHIRE NOW Reimagined is a digital program of livestreamed and on-demand broadcast channels featuring senior 麻豆原创 executives, customers, solution demonstrations, and experts in 14 languages across regions worldwide.

Building a More Sustainable, Profitable Future

, Klein shared how companies using technology to adapt supply chains and automate for new digital business revenue streams were more competitive before the pandemic. They were also emerging more resilient after the crisis. Pointing out that increasingly companies were measured on both their financial performance and contribution to society, Klein saw business and society at a turning point.

鈥淛ust like we cannot ignore the pandemic鈥� we cannot ignore climate change and the major contributions of enterprises,鈥� he said. 鈥淭ogether, we can lead this change and become intelligent enterprises, to make sustainability profitable and profitability sustainable. With our new Climate 21 program, we will support all of our customers to become sustainable companies by building analytical and transactional capabilities [to track greenhouse gas emissions] into our core business applications. It is a huge step in taking climate action.鈥�

麻豆原创 as Trusted Partner

While Klein acknowledged that 麻豆原创鈥檚 more than 400,000 customers did not question the company鈥檚 ability to generate business outcomes, he said what they needed was a trusted partner to help in their digital transformation. He explained how the 麻豆原创 solution portfolio reflected the intelligent enterprise vision, based on integration, innovation, agility, and speed. This included how the integrated听听connected end-to-end business processes 鈥� finance, human experience management (HXM), customer experience, spend management, and supply chain 鈥� for more informed decisions.

鈥淣o other company is more experienced than 麻豆原创 to transform your business, because we have been doing this for almost 50 years,鈥� he said. 鈥淥ur product strategy has one goal: to be the innovative and trusted partner for your holistic business transformation.鈥�

Klein showcased how the open听听with embedded analytics and real-time reporting was the technical foundation of the intelligent enterprise, allowing an ecosystem of partners and customers to integrate with 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 applications and data across hybrid landscapes to extend and create innovative business applications.

Industry Cloud for Vertical Differentiation

Emphasising the importance of partners, Klein explained how the industry cloud supported the development of cloud-native applications for differentiating business capabilities, powering the 鈥渇ourth industrial revolution.鈥�

鈥淲e will partner with our ecosystem to gain broad coverage across all industries鈥� because you know which industry best practices matter most to you鈥� Business processes and steps have many dependencies,鈥� he said. 鈥淥nly 麻豆原创 can bring together all this data of the many stakeholders in one business network, allowing you to manage all these dependencies in real time.鈥�

Partnership with Porsche Drives Results

While it might seem counter intuitive to hold up the automotive industry as an innovation leader during the pandemic, Lutz Meschke, CFO of Porsche, discussed how his company鈥檚 partnership with 麻豆原创 was instrumental in helping both organizations usher in a new era of digitalisation.

In Porsche鈥檚 case, the innovations included electric vehicles, automated driving, new services, and digital sales channels.

鈥淭he pandemic showed us insistently how important it was to act with a sustainably profitable strategy鈥� and to work with a resilient supply chain,鈥� Meschke shared. 鈥淲e see a unique opportunity to become a completely digital company鈥� We believe in strong partnerships, like our strategic partnership with 麻豆原创, driving forward co-innovations and jointly delivering new solutions for our digital transformation.鈥�

Meschke said that Porsche is putting data at the 鈥渉eart of everything鈥� for decision-making backed by听. Using听听and听, Porsche will have one integrated reporting system across its application landscape.

Data Fuels Circular Economy

Meantime, Klein detailed 麻豆原创鈥檚 vision for the intelligent automotive company, taking viewers on a data-driven electric car buying and ownership experience from customised configuration through delivery and beyond. In this future, data provided an informative window into the customer鈥檚 entire driving experience, during a car鈥檚 lifetime and even after. Businesses could provide new services to customers, cities could increase road safety, and car manufacturers could make continuous improvements in a perfect rendition of the circular economy.

Amazing Intelligent Enterprise Journey

Klein closed his keynote with a heartfelt pledge of 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to its customers, and a resounding call to act.

鈥淲e want to serve you with the best possible business outcomes to help you quickly adopt and get the most value from our solutions to ensure your long-term success,鈥� he said. 鈥淭ogether, we鈥檝e embarked on the journey to become intelligence enterprises. We have come a long way already, making a significant contribution to growth while acting sustainably. Let鈥檚 show the world when people and technology meet, amazing things happen.鈥�

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