SAP Perfect Lap Issue 02
Data-driving
the future
A streamlined, efficient and fully integrated business platform
called HANA will underpin the future growth of McLaren Group.
With a little help from a friend called HEC…
Fast-growing businesses; burgeoning IT requirements; staff constantly on
the move pursuing global corporate objectives… A snapshot of McLaren
Group in 2014. But it’s been this way for almost 20 years, as the group has
driven expansion across its four core businesses: Racing, Automotive, Applied
Technologies and Marketing.
And what held true in the mid-90s, when McLaren first approached SAP for
counsel as to streamlining its operations, consistent with a drive for future
growth, is even more pertinent today.
Keeping pace with the relentless fast-forward of technological innovation,
keeping track of staff, understanding how individual businesses-withinthe-business are working moment-to-moment, are ever more essential
requirements for a corporate structure founded on its ability to compete.
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