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EOH brings SAP S/4HANA
Cloud to Africa
“As the largest SAP partner on the
African continent, EOH has been
successful in taking the traditional
on-premise model, innovating new
capabilities and building extensions
to the core. This creates solutions and
capabilities that are initially customer
centric, which are evolved into
industry-first offerings, addressing the
digital transformation opportunities
in both private and public sector,”
said Ebrahim Laher, CEO of EOH
International and EOH SAP.
“Using the scale and experience we
have, EOH is a leader in bringing the
SAP digital transformation solutions
to customers through a combination
of SAP’s cloud solutions, and industry
software product enhancements.”
Brett Parker, Managing Director at SAP Africa
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AP has announced that EOH has
become the first African adopter
of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, the next-
generation cloud-based enterprise
resource planning (ERP) suite. With
a new architecture of in-memory
technology combined with contextual
analytics, digital transformation
capabilities, machine learning and
the award-winning SAP Fiori user
experience, SAP S/4HANA Cloud
enables customers to instantly innovate
and adopt business processes and
models, acting on real-time insight. $47.4B in 2015 to $103.9B in 2020.
Brett Parker, Managing Director at
SAP Africa, said: “SAP has been the
world leader in ERP for decades,
helping the world’s largest and most
successful companies run simpler. The
introduction of SAP S/4HANA Cloud
in the African market enables African
businesses to leverage the latest in SAP
technology to usher in a new era of
intelligent ERP in the cloud.”
EOH, an SAP Gold Partner and the
largest implementer of enterprise
application solutions on the African
continent, will drive adoption of the
new solution among the EOH customer
base, enabling them to capitalise on
a growing global trend of public cloud
services adoption. EOH facilitates the transition of
organisations from their existing IT
landscape to the cloud, enabling
business leaders to define and pursue
new revenue models. The alignment
of technology with business strategy
provides unprecedented business
agility, allowing organisations to easily
adapt to changing market conditions.
This seamless integration of all areas
of business is enabled by the SAP Cloud
Platform, which EOH also extends to
include SAP Concur, SAP Hybris, SAP
Customer Experience Suite (CEC Suite),
SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Business
ByDesign (BYD).
According to IDC, worldwide spending
on public cloud services will grow at a
19.4% compound annual growth rate
(CAGR) from nearly $70B in 2015 to
more than $141B in 2019, while the
software-as-a-service (SaaS) business
applications market will grow from
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The power of market-leading ERP,
in the cloud
The latest release of SAP S/4HANA
Cloud enables companies to carry
out their digital transformation faster
and to make business processes
more efficient through increased
transparency, automation, and quality.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud consists of five
editions, namely:
S/4HANA Finance Cloud, which
leverages in-memory capabilities to
provide finance professionals with core
finance, order-to-cash and procure-to-
pay functionality as well as integration
with SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
The value of strategic partnerships
S/4HANA Professional Services
Cloud, which builds on the finance
edition by introducing project
accounting, project management and
workforce management capabilities,
as well as advanced SuccessFactors,
SAP JAM and ARIBA integration.
S/4HANA Marketing Cloud, a fully
integrated marketing suite that
allows companies to capture and
analyse customer interactions from
different channels and social media
trends, while offering omni-channel
capabilities that are fully integrated
with end-to-end order to cash, core
financial and procurement processes.
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