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In addition, the centre will showcase some of the latest offerings from SAP, such as the SAP HANA platform; SAP Fiori user experience; mobile apps; cloud solutions for human capital management from SuccessFactors, an SAP company; SAP Lumira software; and cloud solutions for supply chain management from Ariba, an SAP company. The CoE will continue to showcase the latest solutions when they enter the market.
“SGIT, the IT arm of JKH, has been implementing and supporting SAP software across the customers of the group since 2004 and started offering these services to external organisations in 2008. We have consistently demonstrated close ties with SAP, culminating in a services partnership in 2011, which marked a significant milestone in our relationship. We are delighted about setting up the first-ever CoE in Sri Lanka for SAP solutions,” said Ramesh Shanmuganathan, Executive Vice President and Group Chief Information Officer at John Keells Holdings PLC.
“Through localised solutions, expanded solution/industry portfolio/expertise and the newly launched ‘Centre of Excellence’ we look forward to enabling Sri Lankan customers across private and public sectors to engage, explore, leverage, grow and compete globally with the right enablement of business-aligned technology. This is of significant value in helping a business realise and unleash the full potential of its investments in SAP software, as a platform of choice, through value innovation, and we eagerly await any opportunities to partner with any customer in the journey together with SAP,” he added.
The CoE enables customers to explore a wide range of technologies and solutions that could be of value to their businesses and identify the use cases for adoption. Further, SGIT/JKH has also been an early adopter of SAP solutions and as such, has already embraced SAP HANA, SAP Fiori, SAP Lumira and SAP Screen Personas software. The company is the first conglomerate in Sri Lanka to migrate its database technology to SAP ASE Platform.
The CoE will help deliver customer immersions and proofs of concept and provide enhanced flexibility, agility and innovative offerings in enterprise applications and related space. This will further showcase enhanced value to the market at large with a significant local presence and expertise, and will be complemented by the global reach of the SAP knowledgebase in order to enhance the quality of solutions delivered to local clients.
SGIT provides end-to-end consulting and professional services and can help customers maximise the returns of their investment whilst optimising the total cost of ownership and benefit as fast as possible while helping ensure that the technology is straightforward to use and easy to administer. Comprehensive services, built-in best practices, including preinstalled infrastructure, integration and jump-start delivery services, further enhance the power of SAP solutions. SGIT also offers customers both proactive and reactive 24×7 support, defined service-level agreements (SLAs), and regular system health checks apart from greenfield SAP software implementations.
