The transformation, anchored on 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and complemented by 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning (IBP), 麻豆原创 Commerce, 麻豆原创 Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), 麻豆原创 Vistex, and 麻豆原创 Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), delivers a unified digital backbone across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, and dealer management. This integrated landscape was implemented significantly faster than industry benchmarks, enabling rapid, large-scale cloud transformation.

Adopting a cloud-first architecture empowers Birla Opus Paints to scale in line with its ambitious growth trajectory, targeting 3x expansion year-on-year, while enhancing visibility, responsiveness, and operational precision. By building a fully digital enterprise from inception, the company has leapfrogged traditional transformation cycles that typically take decades.

鈥淏irla Opus Paints represents the new generation of Indian enterprises that are born digital and built for scale. Their rapid end-to-end transformation reflects the power of 麻豆原创鈥檚 cloud strategy in helping customers run with speed, intelligence, and resilience. We are proud to support their journey as they shape the future of India鈥檚 paints industry,鈥� said Kulwant Singh, Vice President, Enterprise sales, 麻豆原创 India.

Three Pillars of Birla Opus Paints鈥� Digital Strategy

1. Customer-Centric Innovation: Transformation designed with the customer at the center around speed, scale, and real-time visibility. 麻豆原创 enabled a fully digitized value chain鈥攆rom procurement and production to distribution and finance.
2. Industry and Societal Impact: Strengthening India鈥檚 paint and coatings ecosystem with improved supply chain reliability, dealer experience, and nationwide product availability across 40,000+ dealers, six manufacturing plants, and 150 depots.
3. Differentiated Speed and Scale: Achieved a full-stack, cloud-driven enterprise in approximately two years, compared to decades-long industry norms.

鈥淲e have traversed our digital journey with the customer at the epicentre, ensuring every process, platform, and insight works toward delivering a seamless experience right from our inception. With 麻豆原创鈥檚 unified cloud suite, we have created an integrated backbone that brings precision, transparency, and agility to our operations. This implementation not only strengthens how we run our business today but also equips us to scale 3x year after year with confidence,鈥� said Girish Rao, Head 鈥� IT, Birla Opus Paints.

Key Outcomes of the Transformation

• Unified financial and operational planning for strategic alignment
• Real-time visibility to detect and resolve bottlenecks quickly
• Data-driven decision-making replacing manual forecasting
• Accelerated operations across procurement, warehouse management, pricing, and accounts payable
• Scalable growth with a pay-as-you-grow cloud model

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Daily operations run on 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud for core ERP, 麻豆原创 IBP for integrated planning, 麻豆原创 EWM for automated logistics, 麻豆原创 Vistex for pricing and incentives, 麻豆原创 VIM for AP automation, and 麻豆原创 Commerce for digital dealer engagement鈥攕upporting six Industry 4.0 plants, 150 depots, and 40,000+ dealers.

By leveraging a unified digital architecture, Birla Opus Paints is poised to drive continuous improvement, operational agility, and data-driven decision-making across its expanding business landscape.

About Birla Opus Paints

Birla Opus Paints, housed under Grasim Industries, Aditya Birla Group鈥檚 flagship firm,听offers Decorative Painting Solutions to consumers in India. Launched in 2024, Birla Opus Paints has a complete portfolio featuring a range of superior products across categories like interiors, exteriors, waterproofing, enamel paints, wood finishes, aerosols and wallcoverings. With six manufacturing plants spread across India, Birla Opus Paints is well positioned to be amongst the market leaders in the decorative paints category. The brand aims to inspire people to turn their surrounding spaces into their very own masterpiece.

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India Delhi, 19^th September 2025 鈥� 麻豆原创, a market leader in enterprise application software and business AI, today announced the launch of its 麻豆原创 Sovereign Cloud in India鈥攎arking a milestone in the country鈥檚 journey toward digital sovereignty. Designed in full compliance with India鈥檚 National Information Security Policy & Guidelines (NISPG), the new offering empowers governments and regulated industries to modernize with cloud and AI while retaining full control over their most sensitive data and systems.

Amid shifting global dynamics and the unprecedented growth of AI-driven innovation, 麻豆原创 Sovereign Cloud in India strengthens cloud innovation with four key dimensions of control: data, operational, technical, and legal sovereignty. Together, these capabilities empower Indian customers in the regulated industries to build a secure, compliant, and future-ready digital ecosystem with the core foundation of innovation.

麻豆原创 Sovereign Cloud is designed as a full-stack framework, spanning infrastructure, platform, applications, and AI. By combining 麻豆原创鈥檚 sovereign controls with an open-source foundation, it delivers flexibility and innovation while meeting the highest sovereignty standards. Customers can now choose from a range of deployment models, including 麻豆原创 Sovereign Cloud On-Site in customer data center, and a hyperscaler-based option in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) ensuring full alignment with their sovereignty and operational requirements. This approach complements 麻豆原创鈥檚 broader strategy by offering customers enhanced deployment flexibility within a secure and trusted framework.

鈥淒igital sovereignty听supports public sector and regulated industry customers听in creating a foundation听that is secure, resilient, and future-ready for growth,鈥� said Martin Merz, President, 麻豆原创 Sovereign Cloud. 鈥淲ith 麻豆原创 Sovereign Cloud听in India, we are proud to support the country鈥檚 path as a growing hub for innovation鈥攐ffering customers freedom of choice to embrace cloud and AI while retaining full control over data and operations.鈥�

Built for India: Secure, Compliant, and Future-Ready Facility.

Within the newly inaugurated campus at 麻豆原创 Labs India Innovation Park, Bengaluru, 麻豆原创 has unveiled a Secure Operational Facility purpose-built to meet the stringent requirements of India鈥檚 National Security Authorities. Fully aligned with Government Security Policies and Guidelines, the facility serves as strategic hub for innovation, compliance assurance, and co-creation with Indian customers鈥攁dvancing digital sovereignty solutions that are built in India, for India.

鈥淭he launch of 麻豆原创 Sovereign Cloud in India underscores our unwavering commitment to the nation鈥檚 digital transformation journey,鈥� said Manish Prasad, President & Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Indian Subcontinent. 鈥淏y ensuring data remains secure, compliant, and within sovereign boundaries, we are enabling India鈥檚 regulated industries to innovate fearlessly. This initiative supports the country鈥檚 vision of a self-reliant, technologically empowered future鈥攚here digital growth is driven by trust, resilience, and strategic sovereignty.鈥�

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Founded with the mission to bring authentic Indian flavors to every household, Nilons specializes in pickles, instant mixes, spices, and culinary pastes. To support its continued growth and modernization, the company chose 麻豆原创鈥檚 industry-leading cloud-first ERP platform, RISE with 麻豆原创, to gain end-to-end visibility, real-time insights, and enhance supply chain efficiency. With the integration of 麻豆原创鈥檚 solution, Nilons now operates on a unified cloud platform that connects procurement, manufacturing, sales, compliance, and finance. This transformation empowers over 300 users across multiple locations to make faster, data-driven decisions, driving efficiency and ensuring the delivery of high-quality products at scale.

鈥淎t Nilons, our unwavering commitment is to deliver authentic flavors, natural ingredients, right authentic recipes to every household, with our customers at the heart of everything we do,鈥� said Dipak Sanghavi, Managing Director & CEO, Nilons Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. 鈥淏y embracing 麻豆原创 S/4HANA and partnering with SAVIC Technologies, we鈥檝e transformed our core business processes, eliminated inefficiencies, and achieved unparalleled accuracy in inventory and reporting. This digital foundation empowers us to scale with confidence, drive sustainable growth, and continue delivering nutritious and delicious top-quality products for our customers well into the future,鈥� he explained.

The implementation, spearheaded by SAVIC Technologies, was successfully completed within the defined timeline, navigating complex data migrations and change management with precision. Leveraging SAVIC鈥檚 extensive expertise in food processing and 麻豆原创 ecosystems, the transition from legacy systems to a modern, intelligent enterprise framework was seamless, laying the foundation for long-term growth and operational excellence.

鈥淚nnovation and agility are key drivers of growth, and Nilons’ successful transformation reflects the growing momentum of cloud adoption in the food industry,鈥� said Rajeev Singh, India Head of Corporate, 麻豆原创 Indian Subcontinent. 鈥淎s industries transition to the intelligence era, Nilons鈥� embrace of a unified, intelligent ERP suite positions them to drive customer-centric innovation and achieve operational scalability. This milestone sets a new standard for agility and future-readiness in food processing, and we are proud to support Nilons in this pivotal step forward,鈥� he added.

“At SAVIC, we believe every transformation deserves personal commitment. For Nilons, I made it a point to visit the project site every week, connect directly with teams on the ground, and resolve challenges in real time. This hands-on partnership is what sets SAVIC apart 鈥� we don鈥檛 just deliver 麻豆原创 projects; we co-own our customers鈥� ambitions and make sure they succeed, step by step鈥�, said, Senthil, Chairman, SAVIC Inc

Through this transformation, Nilons has enhanced reporting, optimized inventory, and automated compliance, solidifying its position as a digital leader in India’s food processing industry. This achievement underscores 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to driving digital transformation through cloud innovations and strategic partnerships that deliver enduring business results.

About Nilons Enterprises Pvt Ltd

“Nilon鈥檚 Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., with it’s head office in Pune, is one of India鈥檚 leading processed food companies, offering a wide range of high-quality products including pickles, sauces, jams, pastes, ready-to-cook mixes, and more. Established in 1962, Nilon鈥檚 is known for its commitment to taste, quality, and innovation, bringing the authentic flavors of India to every kitchen. With strong distribution across the country, Nilon鈥檚 continues to be a trusted name in Indian households. Nilon’s is India’s leading Pickle & Tooty Fruity manufacturer.”

About SAVIC Technologies Pvt Ltd.

SAVIC is a global system integrator simplifying business processes and enabling customers to achieve their objectives. With expertise in technology and consulting, we drive digital transformation for growth through innovative initiatives. Our delivery model ensures easy adoption and scalability in a cutting-edge digital environment.

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With RISE with 麻豆原创 as the digital backbone, TATA Projects is unifying key business functions, from project planning and procurement to finance, human resources, compliance, and analytics, on a single, intelligent platform. This consolidation will enable the company to enhance data visibility, driving business agility and operational efficiency with real-time decision-making across the enterprise. The digital transformation is set to reimagine how infrastructure projects, from urban metro systems to industrial corridors, will be planned, executed, and scaled in India鈥檚 rapidly evolving economy.

“As Tata Projects aims to be among the top global infrastructure companies, RISE with 麻豆原创 implementation represents a pivotal moment in our technology journey, said Vinayak Pai, Managing Director & CEO, TATA Projects. 听鈥淲ith 麻豆原创’s comprehensive cloud suite, we have created a unified digital backbone streamlining and modernizing our core operations with precision, speed, and transparency. This transformation enables us to continue to deliver innovation and excellence in the infrastructure sector while creating a sustainable future鈥�

鈥淎s India鈥檚 infrastructure sector undergoes exponential growth鈥攆ueled by urban expansion, sustainability imperatives, and digital-first government initiatives鈥攖echnology is emerging as a key enabler of scale and agility. Tata Projects鈥� successful digital transformation exemplifies the construction industry鈥檚 accelerating shift to cloud-based solutions. We are proud to support their journey with 麻豆原创鈥檚 unified ERP platform, which is enhancing operational efficiency, enabling data-driven decision-making, and fostering innovation across the enterprise,鈥� said Manish Prasad, President and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Indian Subcontinent.听

Through this digital shift, TATA Projects has improved its overall project profitability, reduced procurement lead times, enhanced data governance, and optimized workforce productivity. Moreover, aligned with its sustainability goals, the transformation also empowers Tata Projects to make faster, more informed decisions that support long-term environmental stewardship.

About TATA Projects Limited

Tata Projects is one of the most trusted Technology led Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies in India. We have expertise in providing sustainable solutions in the execution of large and complex urban and industrial infrastructure projects while also demonstrating strong presence in refineries and petrochemical plants. We leverage our domain knowledge across various business segments to address the shift to clean energy to meet the nation鈥檚 Net Zero ambitions.

We provide ready-to-deploy solutions for semiconductor facilities, giga factories, data centres, refineries, green fuels, roads, bridges, integrated rail & metro systems, commercial building & airports, power generation, transmission & distribution systems, chemical process plants, water & waste management, and mining & metal purification systems.

Tata Projects offers one stop service covering entire life cycle of the project, from project conceptualization to operations & maintenance. It uses innovative technology solutions to offer bouquet of services which includes engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, inspection & expediting, operations, repairs & maintenance, and shutdown services.

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For German software maker, 麻豆原创, India is a priority market in which small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for 80% of 麻豆原创 India鈥檚 customer base. Last year, 麻豆原创 India invested `500 crore to localize its multi-cloud strategy for specifically helping Indian businesses. Kulmeet Bawa, President and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Indian Subcontinent, talks about trends in cloud adoption and the company鈥檚 strategy for the next year, in an interview with Ayushman Baruah.

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How was the adoption of cloud in 2022 and how do you see it next year?

India鈥檚 cloud adoption reached an inflection point in 2022. From听鈥檚 perspective, India remains a strategic priority market, both for business and innovation. We observed an accelerated cloud adoption across industries, including engineering, construction, life sciences and pharma, CPG/retail, and IT-ITeS. Major corporations such as Mahindra & Mahindra, Wipro, and HCL Tech moved their digital core to the cloud. We saw an enormous growth across different sizes of organizations, be it the enterprise or midmarket. We also saw numerous 麻豆原创-led digital transformations in start-ups and digital natives who now rely upon us as their trusted advisor. In fact, for the past six or seven quarters, we have outperformed our growth every quarter, with a high continuous year-on-year growth. When I consider the headroom and opportunities that are open to our country, I believe that 2023 is our world of opportunity.

What will be the key drivers of digital transformation next year as the macro-economic conditions remain uncertain?

Although organizations have always aimed to enhance their speed, agility, and data-driven decision-making, there is now a heightened feeling of urgency around the adoption of digital. For enterprises to stay relevant in the face of uncertain macroeconomic market conditions, organizations across the spectrum have hastened their digital transformation. Furthermore, low-code and no-code tools, automation, composability, cloud computing, and associated technologies will be the driving forces behind digital transformation. Additionally, rising attention by businesses and the public sector on how digital technology can enable sustainability will be another trend to watch out for.

What鈥檚 麻豆原创 India鈥檚 strategy to tap into the growing SMB market in the country?

The small and midsize business (SMB) sector in India today accounts for 29-30% of the country鈥檚 GDP, and SMEs account for 80% of 麻豆原创 India鈥檚 customer base. We are the market leader in the SMB sector in India, with a large customer base coming from tier-2 and tier-3 cities including Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Jaipur, Ratnagiri, Kanpur, etc. With the goal of advancing cloud adoption and accelerating company transformation for the Indian mid-market, we have launched several outreach initiatives such as the Transformation Express and Global Bharat Movement focused on helping MSMEs in their journey to cloud migration and digitalization. We invested `500 crore in early 2021 to localize our multi-cloud strategy with the goal of helping Indian businesses become more resilient. Through our multi-cloud strategy, we are enabling our customers to enjoy the benefits of our platform on their choice of cloud infrastructure. Our cloud offering has been adopted by hundreds of brands like Cera Sanitaryware, Luminous Power, Virescent Infrastructure, Puravankara, WayCool Foods & Products, to name a few.

What are some of the key technologies 麻豆原创 will be focusing on next year?

As we step into 2023, our goal is to provide our customers with transformational tools that they need to embrace innovation and address the biggest business challenges of their respective industries. Some of these key technologies include: (a) focused on creating an intelligent, inter-connected, and sustainable world and helping companies of all sizes and industries accelerate their sustainability journeys; (b) Platform Engineering which is expected to become more prevalent in 2023 as organizations continue to find and retain highly skilled technology talent. will become the norm that will aid our customers to achieve business agility; and (c) where AI, automation, and machine learning are shaping business landscapes worldwide. By unifying all AI capabilities into a single platform, 麻豆原创 AI services will continue to enable teams to build chatbots and automate processes to gain business efficiencies through AI and machine learning.

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Rise with 麻豆原创 – Nurturing Innovation though Collaboration

German multinational software corporation 麻豆原创 is looking to double the contribution from its India operations by 2025, as the country is among the fastest growing geographies for the firm.

Its India operations posted high double-digit growth in 2021 across all market segments, Kulmeet Bawa, president, and managing director, 麻豆原创 Indian Subcontinent, told ET.

鈥�2021 was the best year in our history, and we鈥檝e contributed globally very holistically. India was one of the frontrunners in terms of the number of RISE customers globally,鈥� Bawa said.

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New Delhi, December 8, 2021:听 India Midmarket enterprises have truly embraced the power of digital, to be more agile, flexible, and scalable. As they embark on their journey to cloud, they are gearing up to adapt to business disruptions while competently capitalizing on the changing business landscape. While priorities varied from industry to industry, the aim is to service customers better through touchless solutions, enable uninterrupted operations through automation, and provide a seamless user experience through adoption of cloud. indicated that 82% of midmarket enterprises are reducing their focus from on-premises business applications.

鈥�While digital transformation can accelerate growth, it is innovative business models, cloud transformations and reconnecting with customers which will determine long-term and sustainable success鈥� said Kulmeet Bawa, President, and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Indian Subcontinent 鈥�The Indian midmarket segment is poised to play a significant role in the country鈥檚 quest to become a $5tn economy. 麻豆原创 is committed to co-create, empower and enable mid-market enterprises in their digital-first business and growth journey.鈥� he added.

The rising trend of digital resiliency among the midmarket enterprises showcased an increasing optimism to invest more in cloud, cybersecurity, analytics, and business intelligence. The orchestration capabilities to interoperate across different cloud environments is considered as one of the top drivers for cloud-related investments in 2022. The survey findings also indicated that 68% of midmarket enterprises either intend to increase (5-10%) or retain their IT spend in 2022. 听

The survey indicated the following key findings:

75% of Midmarket Enterprises Will Return Operations to Pre-Pandemic Levels by End of 2021

Leadership Resiliency

• 83% of enterprises are focusing on resiliency objectives like business continuity

Operations Resiliency

• 58% of enterprises have an ERP system providing full visibility of operations across different departments
  • IT & ITeS, Retail and Engineering, Construction and Operations leading this adoption

Financial Resiliency

• 58% if enterprises have introduced scorecards, visualization and simulations to analyse their financial performance to take critical business decisions

Workforce Resiliency

• 50% of enterprises are taking an integrated approach towards employee experience & engagement post the pandemic as compared to only 36% enterprises in pre-pandemic.
  • IT & ITeS and Retail are the top industries focusing on an integrated approach

Customer Resiliency

• 40% of enterprises are adopting an end-to-end approach for managing the customer journey across all departments based on customer behaviour.
  • Profound adoption by IT & ITeS, Life Sciences & Pharma, Retail and Engineering, construction & operations.

Brand and Reputation Resiliency

• 74% of enterprises in India will increase or retain their spend on IT Security, Governance & Risk Management in 2022.

鈥淔or small and midsize businesses, 2021 represent the dawn of a golden age. , it is very clear that smart business leaders are investing in cloud technologies that will help them meet their future goals. Doing so is not just what鈥檚 right for the business but also for their employees, customers, community and our country鈥檚 economy,鈥� added听Subramanian Ananthapadmanabhan, Vice President, 麻豆原创 Indian Subcontinent. 鈥淚t is heartening to witness Indian midmarket enterprises embrace the power of digital, to be more agile, flexible and scalable enterprises of tomorrow.鈥�

This study assessed over 350 Indian midmarket enterprises with an annual revenue of INR 500 Cr to INR 2000 Cr. The respondent demographics consisted of 55% CXOs and 45% directors with responses across all dimensions of digital resiliency such as Operational, Workforce and Customer, Brand and Reputation, Leadership and Organization, and financial resiliency. The industries covered by the survey were Chemicals, Industrial Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Professional Services, Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods, and Engineering, Construction & Operations.

Commenting on the study, Sharath Srinivasamurthy, Research Director, Enterprise Solutions & ICT Practices, IDC India said, 鈥淲hile the power of digital has been well embraced by the midmarket enterprises; the surveyed enterprises acknowledged agility, performance, and availability as the key drivers for adoption of cloud platforms. This rising trend of digital resiliency is prominent across industries such as manufacturing, healthcare and pharma, and professional services.鈥�

About 麻豆原创

麻豆原创鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as a sustainable intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 87% of the world鈥檚 total global commerce touches an 麻豆原创庐 system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into sustainable intelligent enterprises. 麻豆原创 helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 麻豆原创 helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit

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Customers鈥� expectations evolve rapidly in today鈥檚 digital world, which only increases the pressure for businesses to meet them. So how do businesses provide a superior omnichannel experience for their customers now while remaining poised to adapt to the customer of the future? The answer is cloud. Investing in cloud solutions and technologies can help give businesses that competitive advantage they need.

As the margin of error for businesses slims and customers increasingly prefer digital channels for their shopping experience, businesses need to use this competitive advantage to connect with their customers on multiple levels. They need to demonstrate their value as a trusted supplier, relevant brand, and committed partner. Maintaining this reputation is no easy feat given the endless number of options customers have at their fingertips and how quickly a poor experience can send a customer running to a competitor.

To maintain the relationships with their customers, businesses need to understand them at a holistic level. They need to have deep insights into the behaviors and desired experiences of their customers to proactively create and engage opportunities and react quickly to challenges. For many 麻豆原创 customers, cloud technology connects those customer data points and sets the foundation for more intelligent data capture, processing, and analysis. Before the pandemic,听听were already planning to employ cloud-based technologies for 61% to 100% of their digital commerce solutions. And now, B2C businesses are following the same path to engage customers with restrictive in-person policies.

Taking the Customer Experience to the Cloud 鈥� with Confidence

When moving from an on-premise environment to a cloud landscape, most organizations quickly realize that the experience is unlike anything they鈥檝e seen before. Challenges exist for both the business and IT teams. Organizations must adapt to a mindset of standardization over customization, more frequent releases containing new innovations designed to improve their business, and foundationally new products that they lack knowledge and experience administering.

The听听offering can help organizations overcome those challenges to help ensure a successful transition to the cloud and adoption of optimal business processes, leading to better user experience. The offering orchestrates a success plan including a comprehensive portfolio of exclusive resources to optimize the consumption of cloud solutions and technology from 麻豆原创.

The underlying goal of 麻豆原创 Preferred Success is to help customers leverage cloud solutions the right way for their business. We work with our customers to help ensure their cloud investments play an integral role in helping them reach their desired and expected business outcomes.

Through an extensive community of users, business peers, and product experts, customers receive guidance on the latest functions. A dedicated customer success manager (CSM) acts as the partner for success for customers. The CSM helps ensure milestones and goals are being met through close collaboration with customer teams and by orchestrating the necessary resources for success.

Each phase and milestone 鈥� such as an implementation or a new release 鈥� is supported by 麻豆原创 Preferred Success. Customers鈥� goals and key initiatives are integrated into the approach to help ensure the delivery of the expected outcomes and the overall digital transformation strategy.

Driving Continuous Value that Resonates

Without question, today鈥檚 competitive landscape is full of challenges primarily centered around the experience of customers. But don鈥檛 forget that a slew of new opportunities is emerging and quickly becoming a point of differentiation in a rapidly evolving digital marketplace.

It鈥檚 a juggling act to handle all this change. Beyond just implementing new technology, businesses need to commit to a fundamental and permanent shift in their digital strategies, processes, and mindsets to serve customers better. And with 麻豆原创 Preferred Success by their side, they have the insight-driven, prescriptive, and personalized support they need to build the right customer experience.

Get more real-life insights on 麻豆原创 Preferred Success through the series,听Heading to the Cloud with 麻豆原创 Preferred Success, and learn how your entire company can accelerate cloud adoption and business outcomes with insight-driven, prescriptive, and personalized guidance and support.

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Business leaders today must ensure resilience, efficiency, and flexibility while supporting strategic transformation; and this is not limited just to the IT industry. A recent states, as a result of the pandemic, 64% of the organizations in India are expected to increase demand for cloud computing. People today are depending on cloud-based solutions that deliver connectivity, efficiency, affordability, and excellent user experience on any device, any time. The need to work remotely has created an increased demand for collaboration across teams, companies and industries as well. It is also providing an opportunity for the cloud marketplace to strengthen and expand its reach.

While it鈥檚 not a new term, Industry Cloud is gaining more momentum now. The healthcare sector had made some strides in cloud adoption, but recently there has been an increased uptick. Other industries which are progressively moving to the cloud are online education, retail, supply chain and logistics telemedicine, life sciences, oil and gas, manufacturing and e-commerce sector. In a 2019 , 64% of respondents said they either already use Industry Cloud services or plan to adopt it in the next 12 months. Industry Cloud enables innovation within and across the sector to allow the customers to thrive in a transforming world. Vertical solutions can yield results for the core business and help expedite business operations while balancing cost efficiencies. It provides a unique solution of enhancing and extending business capabilities while preserving process integrity and compliance

Customizing Solutions

Every sector has its own business, operatory, legal, regulatory, as well as security and other considerations. Industry Cloud creates customized cloud system to fit a specific industry to accommodate the business. The main aim is enabling vertical integration and vertical solutions rather than horizontal ones, which is usually the focus of general cloud computing. Industry Cloud solutions concentrate on generating more worth within the limits of the industry in which it is used rather than going out to another industry. Companies can also look at borrowing best practices from other sectors by plugging in existing Industry Cloud solutions which then would enable continuous innovation while protecting the security and integrity of business processes.

Driving Innovation

The emergence of Industry Cloud has enabled multiple companies in an industry to collaborate on cloud-based platforms and innovate at the vertical edge. Each company might not have every expertise, but they can indeed leverage each other鈥檚 strengths. Companies within the same industry can look at improving efficiency by providing access to successful use cases and create collaborative solutions. Businesses are reinventing themselves inspired by digital innovation and uniting with customers and partners by creating new custom solutions using machine learning, analytics and business networks. These partner-led solutions give rise to industry-specific innovation and the ability of any industry to run as an intelligent enterprise.

Reframing Business Models

Industry Cloud, as a concept has evolved into innovation space to develop new solutions and enabling integration. Customers today want to be inspired and educated by brands that share their morals and deliver personalized experiences. They want personalization with a purpose. Hence, consumer products companies need to embrace next-gen business processes and intelligent technologies such as augmented reality/ virtual reality, Edge computing, 3D printing, artificial intelligence and machine learning to lead in this new era of听 Industry4.0, allowing market leaders to reimagine new business models such as pursuing innovative partnerships or monetizing data. There are options to deliver higher value in a more differentiated way by partnering more effectively across the ecosystem. Consumer companies can optimize and deepen the level of collaboration with existing strategic partners to pursue additional sources of value as well as aggressively pursue new partners to differentiate further and enable new levels of agility. Thus, removing the age-old model of 鈥渙ne product fits all鈥� and creating opportunities to deliver personalized experiences. Similarly, across industries, companies will move away from traditional business models and view their ecosystem as a productive, set of relationships – one capable of delivering new types and sources of value to consume.

While what the future holds is unclear, the cloud has been a saviour during the crisis caused by the pandemic. It is no longer where parts of the business would move to the cloud, one at a time. That has changed to business across industries, driving 100% to the cloud. It has enabled seamless business operations, which, in turn, has increased the confidence in embracing the cloud in every sector. Now, it鈥檚 time for companies to be an intelligent enterprise with the power of end-to-end Industry Cloud solutions.

Sindhu Gangadharan is Senior Vice President and Managing Director, 麻豆原创 Labs India

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Essentially, they are a model of a well-run organization. Tracking inputs and outputs, goods, inventory, materials, work in progress, invoices, purchase orders, payments received and made 鈥� ERP solutions connect all aspects of an organization鈥檚 operations.

This large range of touch points, combined with the enablement of reporting and decision making, both strategic and statutory, means ERP solutions are fundamental to the smooth running of many businesses. In the absence of an alternative model, many organizations chose to keep implementation and customization in their own hands.

This led to a focus on building processes, even the most simple and fundamental to a business, from scratch. This basis for this entirely rational decision is being challenged by the emergence of听. This is because, the resources required to execute this initial on-premise implementation are significant. This approach also demands significant testing, user training, all of which delay time-to-value.

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But more importantly, as new innovations, capabilities and updates become available, all the customizations made to the ERP solution act as a disincentive to upgrading. What was once a 鈥渟afe option鈥� to run, maintain and protect on-premise databases and server infrastructure, becomes an increasing liability and technological advances gather speed. As competitors carve out competitive advantages thanks to new possibilities in analytics, collaboration, accessibility and more, many organizations find they customized their ERP to death.

What is Cloud ERP?

Cloud ERP is the alternative approach. As well as the fundamental benefits cloud deployment delivers; data and application accessed via a web browser, multiple updates every year, better security, etc, cloud ERP plugs the vendor鈥檚 core business experience into the heart of your business.

Forget building hundreds, or even thousands, of processes from scratch. Instead organizations can leverage best practices developed over decades of industry exposure and expertise.

What is Intelligent Cloud ERP?

While first-generation cloud ERP was focused on speed of adoption, the new generation of听 is intelligent and provides superior technology. Through artificial intelligence (AI), it learns, anticipates, and is one step ahead, offering next-generation agility in business operations and instant business value. 麻豆原创 is the leader in intelligent cloud ERP through significant investment in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

Intelligent cloud ERP harnesses actionable insights via in-memory and predictive analytics, next-gen AI-driven automation and digital assistants to deliver a digital edge for your business. It combines the scalability and security you expect from the cloud, with a rapid update cycle that continuously adds capabilities and improves the user experience to drive productivity.

Intelligent cloud ERP represents a significant shift in the way enterprises utilize their ERP systems, deploy their resources, and achieve nonlinear returns on their investment. Industries are in the process of being changed forever as they move from legacy technology to the most modern digital platforms, including intelligent cloud ERP.

What are the Key Benefits to My Organization?

The key benefits organizations can enjoy from an intelligent cloud ERP come from replacing the complexity of an over-customized ERP, with the simplicity of off-the-shelf, best practices. This unlocks the ability to singularly focus on business outcome and customer satisfaction, not firefighting and battling inefficient processes. Businesses enjoy continuous impact by adapting and innovating confidently, staying competitive and truly leading their industries. Capex costs are shifted to opex, so IT鈥檚 focus shifts from keeping the lights on to enabling enterprise scale digital transformation.

Intelligent cloud ERP gives businesses the tools to know everything that is going on in their business in real-time, offering not only live insights but the flexibility and agility to act on that information and truly drive change.

How Quickly can the Benefits of Intelligent Cloud ERP be Realized?

Unlike traditional deployment 鈥� where CIOs are responsible for tremendous overhead in provisioning, application management, middleware, and maintaining IT support systems, not to mention ongoing security 鈥� for intelligent cloud ERP, you need only two things: a browser and your company鈥檚 data. No servers, no front-end rollout, no monolithic change management.

With strong executive support, communication and training, value can be delivered almost instantly. This new model speeds time to value. 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud averages 100 days from order to full implementation, and we plan to get our pace down to 70 days with further automation. Quarterly updates continuously expand the innovative potential of intelligent cloud ERP.

How Is Intelligent Cloud ERP Updated?

On-premise ERP solutions are installed locally and require internal 鈥� or expensive external 鈥� IT resources to update and redeploy across all your organization鈥檚 devices.

Intelligent cloud ERP solutions are upgraded regularly 鈥� usually several times a year 鈥� and are carried out by the provider. The user decides which new features and functions to turn on. This little-and-often approach ensures adoption of latest innovations, updates and best practices at cloud speed.

Sal Laher is global chief operating officer for 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

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