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Saudi based National Agricultural Development Company implements SAP Signavio
The National Agricultural Development
Company , NADEC has successfully implemented SAP Signavio , leveraging the technology to advance the company ’ s digital transformation strategy . The initiative is aligned with the Saudi Arabia ’ s Vision 2030 , and aims to enhance the efficiency of NADEC ’ s services , supporting diversification of its products and enabling it to enter new sectors in the food industry .
Supported by the SAP Customer Success programme , NADEC achieved the deployment within just five days , and customers , staff and partners are already benefitting from the results . In total , 51 business processes have been transformed , including finance , procurement , warehousing , production , quality control , sales , transportation , and plant maintenance .
Saad Saud Alhowaimel , NADEC , Vice President , Digital and Technology , said ,
“ Through the SAP Signavio business transformation project , we have integrated and streamlined our business processes , automated tasks and gained greater visibility , insight and control over our diverse operations .”
Omar Bukhari , Head of Consumer Retail Services , SAP Saudi Arabia , commented , “ SAP Signavio is an end-to-end business process transformation platform that enables enterprises to quickly understand , benchmark , improve , transform and manage their business processes rapidly and at scale .”
The NADEC SAP Signavio project was so successful that it outperformed competitors across global industries to win the category of Best Achievement in a Business Process Management Programme at this year ’ s prestigious Business Transformation and Operational Excellence Awards held in the US .
Google Cloud partner CNTXT introduces sovereign data controls for Saudi customers
CNTXT , a cloud and digital transformation company in Saudi Arabia , announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to introduce a new premium cybersecurity offering to the Saudi market : Sovereign Controls by CNTXT . The new offering is designed to support the digital transformation journeys of organisations operating in the region who must meet strict data sovereignty , regulatory and security requirements .
With this offering , CNTXT , a reseller of Google Cloud Platform services for Saudibased customers , helps local organisations meet digital sovereignty requirements by delivering a managed External Key Management , EKM with Key Access Justifications , KAJ service , as well as localised support . EKM with KAJ encrypts customer data at rest with keys stored outside of Google Cloud ’ s infrastructure .
This offering also requires detailed justifications each time access to keys is required , offering customers the ability to deny access for any reason , including extraterritorial data requests . This innovative solution is designed to protect highly sensitive workloads that would typically remain on-premises , providing an additional layer of control for organisations moving to the cloud
The goal of the transformation project was to create a single source of information to evaluate where NADEC could best integrate its business processes to acquire real-time system data on business transactions and inventory visibility across different verticals .
Implemented solutions include SAP Signavio Process Insights , SAP Signavio Process Manager , and SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub , all of which were integrated with SAP S4HANA , an enterprise resource planning , ERP solution . The integration resulted in a precise and comprehensive roadmap for business process improvements and strategies .
The EKM solution is offered in Saudi Arabia by SITE , as an integral part of the DATA SHIELD powered by Fortanix product and Google Cloud ’ s Cloud External Key Manager service . SITE provides innovative , reliable Digital and Cybersecurity services and solutions .
This offering provided through Assured Workloads , and built on Google Cloud ’ s Class C-certified infrastructure offers customers the ability to deny access to their data for any reason , empowering organisations across the Saudi Arabia to accelerate their digital transformation journeys while helping to meet regulatory requirements and maintaining more control over their data .
“ We are thrilled to bring Cloud External Key Manager to Saudi Arabia , offering organisations the ability to securely move their most sensitive workloads to the cloud ,” said Abdullah Jarwan , CEO at CNTXT .
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