The Kenyan implementation of S\/4 HANA was launched on Amazon Web Service Hyperscaler, an African first for SAP and a Tier 1 bank in the African banking industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsing best of breed technology and cloud, we are transforming our Finance business with highly integrated systems, automation and consolidation of our financial data and reporting\u2019\u2019 says Ebrahim Samodien, CIO Functions Technology.<\/p>\n
SAP had been chosen to assist in simplifying the group\u2019s internal finance and reporting processes.\u00a0The implementation of SAP S\/4 HANA is a step towards Absa\u2019s vision to consolidate and report off a single instance General Ledger.<\/p>\n
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SAP S\/4 HANA will help Absa to intelligently automate manual processes, simplify their data models, guide decision making process through embedded analytics and machine learning.<\/p>\n
It will also improve the bank\u2019s IT TCO by enabling legacy system decommissioning and moving compute resources into the cloud.<\/p>\n
The SAP services teams in collaboration with Absa\u2019s IT team commenced the S\/4 HANA project as part of Programme Owari in May 2020. The programme was implemented using a combination of on-site and remote delivery consisting of SAP colleagues from EMEA South and, SDC India and Europe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are delighted to have joined forces with Absa on their finance transformation. Absa are innovating and leveraging further insights into their core operational processes. This project also highlights the quick time to value realisation our customers are achieving through S\/4HANA implementations and the associated benefit of the embedded technology capabilities. This journey between Absa and SAP is an excellent example of the power of collaboration in digital transformations\u201d concludes Cathy Smith, MD SAP Africa.<\/p>\n
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