SAP Now, held with the theme “India: Incredible to Inevitable”, was held successfully this week at Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai and witnessed a gathering of over 2000 delegates. The event, SAP stated, was aimed at symbolizing “advancement, blending innovation, technology, and visionary strategies – an India that is Digital, Inclusive, and Sustainable”. Attendees got to learn from keynotes from SAP leaders, industry visionaries and innovators, breakout sessions as well as experience zone.
Some of the topics that the solution specific breakout sessions covered are as follows:
- Enterprise resource planning.
- Supply chain management.
- Human capital management.
- Spend management and business network.
- Customer experience.
- Sustainability management.
- Business AI.
At SAP Now, the company also introduced ‘GROW with SAP for Scaleups’, a new cloud offering to accelerate innovation for growth-oriented startups. Last year, SAP launched ‘Grow with SAP’-as a bundled cloud-native service for midsize companies. The latest offering, designed specifically to support scaleups in simplifying scaling challenges, boosting daily operational efficiency, and sustaining exponential growth will be available for free up to six months.
“Scaleups are a critical enabler of India’s nation-building efforts,” said Sanket Deodhar, Vice President & Head of Digital Natives, SAP India. “When armed with a solid technology stack and state-of-the-art tools, Scaleups can innovate, scale quickly, nurture their financial stability, while amplifying their efforts in national development. Embracing cloud technology, therefore, isn’t just an option; but an imperative in today’s competitive landscape.”
Benefits GROW with SAP will bring to Scaleups:
- Enhance Market Valuation: By implementing SAP’s cloud solutions to run optimized operations, Scaleups can gain real-time access to financial data and profitability analysis, thus growing the bottom line and driving market valuation.
- Faster time to value: Embracing SAP’s Cloud ERP will enable companies to modernize core business processes within weeks, equipped with industry-specific tools and resources, paving the road to profitability and long-term success.
- Business Expansion: Scaling up means expanding business into newer markets and regions, compliant with geographical regulations & laws. Adopting SAP’s state-of-the-art cloud solutions can enable Indian scaleups to comply with new market demands, tax requirements, and business regulations by freeing up administrative tasks to focus more on core products, teams, and customers.
- Streamline the ‘Hire-to-Retire’ cycle: By automating the onboarding process, growth-focused enterprises can streamline the complete ‘hire-to-retire’ cycle thus enhancing the ‘people experience’ that’s in line with the company’s business expansion.
- Access to SAP’s ecosystem: Using SAP’s offerings startups can accelerate their ability to grow, scale, and exit by networking and collaborating with SAP’s global ecosystem through the hypergrowth hub.