Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 31 | Page 37

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// For a lot of businesses aiming to become intelligent enterprises, Hans-Peter Fülle, Digital Core Senior Vice President of SAP EMEA South, says they must leverage the power of Big Data, analytics and Intelligent of Things. I ntelligent Enterprise is a long-term strategy for businesses who understand how operational data aligned with experience data equates to the rapid transformation of data into insight, which feeds process automation, innovation and, ultimately, optimised experiences. Technology and innovation like SAP Leonardo bring the power of operational and experiential data to decision makers through an integrated dashboard and empowers brand and product managers as well as employees to see an aggregation of Big Data on one screen. When this is real, business is fast on the path to being best run. A global example of this in action would be Hoerbiger, an industrial machinery and components company, that leveraged the IoT technology of the Leonardo portfolio using the S/4HANA cloud platform to connect to its wellhead compression units. The implementation concluded with FEATURE: BIG DATA the company experiencing improved visualisation, better unit access and availability, improved service, and data insights for better decision-making. Hoerbiger now understands the true value of standardisation after its move to S/4HANA and can see it paving the way to innovation. The system is drawing compressor data continuously which, when transferred to S/4HANA, automatically generates invoices. The company is experiencing exponential improvement in maintenance departments, with predictive maintenance now a reality, and algorithms set to keep a check on performance. Hoerbiger has reduced labour time by eliminating non value-added visits to the wellheads, and completely removed the need for manual paperwork. At the SAPPHIRE NOW event held last year, 75% of customers in attendance had confirmed plans to migrate and this is a big deal. But it would behove any business planning to migrate to do just that, and plan. Businesses must define where they want to start and how fast they want to move. They must determine how they want to deploy and highlight conversations that must be had, and a good next step would be investigating the S/4HANA Adoption Starter Pack. All of this will determine how and when the journey can and should begin, and how it should move forward. n HOERBIGER NOW UNDERSTANDS THE TRUE VALUE OF STANDARDISATION AFTER ITS MOVE TO S/4HANA AND CAN SEE IT PAVING THE WAY TO INNOVATION. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 37