COUNTRY FOCUS: SAUDI ARABIA
Mission critical:
Accelerating vital
business processes
Saudi Arabia based SAB Holding has deployed SAP®
applications (S/4HANA) on the IBM Cloud to accelerate
operations and leverage business data for better, faster
decision-making. Intelligent CIO talked to Dr Hatem Bakheet,
CEO of SAB Innovation, SAB Holding’s technology subsidiary,
about the implementation and benefits of the system.
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BM Cloud was chosen by
SAB Holding, an industrial
conglomerate headquartered
in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to host its
mission-critical SAP® applications.
IBM Cloud’s SAP-certified infrastructure
will provide SAB Holding with the agility
and speed the company needs to keep
pace with business demands, while
helping accelerate its business processes
and fully leveraging its business data for
better decision-making.
SAB Holding’s construction
services subsidiary (RCC) was at a
disadvantage for operating finance,
payroll and inventory across multiple
different systems. Time played a
critical role for SAB Holding because
the implementation needed to be
completed within a tight timeframe for
a major project.
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To quickly solve this challenge and
enable integrated operations, SAB
Holding launched Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) applications from
SAP (S/4HANA®) to support finance,
supply chain management, HR and
payroll, project system and enterprise
content management, delivered via
the IBM Cloud.
Handled and delivered by SAB Holding’s
technology subsidiary, ‘SAB Innovation’,
the IBM Cloud environment was
implemented and ready for use within
seven days with zero downtime.
With the new solution, SAB Holding
benefits from a highly available IBM
Cloud infrastructure that’s fully-
managed by a team of experts at
IBM’s cloud data centre in Germany
and backed by IBM’s global network
spanning 19 countries and six
“SAB Holding’s
construction
services
subsidiary
(RCC) was at a
disadvantage
for operating
finance, payroll
and inventory
across multiple
different
systems.”
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