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SAP partners with Saudi Aramco to
create digital business marketplace
SAP is partnering with Saudi Aramco in creating a new solutions
platform to enable Saudi Aramco to launch a digital business
marketplace with thousands of its buyers and suppliers in
partnership with SAP Ariba. Saudi Aramco says the move
forms part of its digital transformation strategy and will help
it and its global subsidiaries to manage and simplify real-time
collaboration between their buyers and suppliers. The deal will
make it Saudi Arabia’s first company that will run solutions on
the SAP Cloud Hub, which will launch shortly as part of SAP’s
four-year SAR 285 million investment plan in the Kingdom.
As a result, the firm will be able to run cloud-based business
applications to optimise business processes and costs,
and enhance customer and supplier relationships. Using
SAP Ariba, Saudi Aramco can capitalise on several solution
functionalities, including e-Bidding, e-Sourcing, contracts
life-cycle management and supplier onboarding, to create
a collaborative supply chain environment that will enhance
supply chain efficiency and open wider business opportunities
for the local and regional supplier-base. SAP Ariba combines
industry-leading cloud-based applications with the world’s
largest Internet-based trading community to help companies
discover and collaborate with a global network of partners.
Companies around the world use the software to simplify inter-
enterprise commerce and enhance the results that they deliver.
Saudi Aramco signs a partnership with SAP to
create a digital business marketplace
Huawei innovation centre launched
in Saudi Arabia
transformation of the Saudi economy by providing an open
ecosystem for innovation. The centre will allow industry
partners to build solutions, verify new business models, and
customise applications and services to sectors such as the
utilities, energy, transportation, education, and government.
His Excellency Mr Li Huaxin, China Ambassador to Saudi
Arabia, said: “The integration of Saudi 2030 vision and
China’s ‘belt and road’ initiative will bring unlimited
opportunities for business and cooperation between the two
countries. I believe and hope that Huawei will continue to play
a leading role in the kingdom.”
Huawei Centre launched in Riyadh by the Ministry
of Commerce and Investment aims to support the
Kingdom’s drive for innovation
One of the largest customer solution innovation and
integration experience centres (CSIC) in the Middle East
has opened in Riyadh. With more than 1,200 square metres
of floor space, the Huawei CSIC will accelerate the digital
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In addition to catering to government and enterprise
customers, the CSIC will also play an active role in promoting
innovation among young people as the centre opens its doors
to school and university students.
Huawei and universities in Saudi Arabia will be organising
the ICT Skills and Innovation Competition, which aims to
provide a stage for aspiring youth to showcase their ideas and
concepts, with the winners enrolled in internship programmes
at Huawei.
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