SAP Calls for Public and Private Sector Organisations in Singapore to Harness the Power of Data

·  As
governments and businesses work towards the ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2020 goals,
SAP identifies opportunities to empower organisations in Singapore to thrive in
the digital era

·  Company
aims to help organisations become Digital Leaders in their respective
industries

·  New
solutions and services introduced to the market will help take customers to the
next stage of their digital journey

Singapore — Aug 15, 2017 — SAP SE (NYSE:
SAP) said today it has harnessed its digital core, bold technologies of the
future and its expertise in ERP to help customers make everything digital,
programmable and smarter. This is part of the company’s overall strategy to
drive its innovation agenda and support customers’ digital transformation and
journey to the cloud through its portfolio of solutions.

“As governments and businesses work towards a digitally-enabled
ASEAN as outlined by the ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2020, we see plenty of opportunities
for organizations from the public and private sectors alike to harness the
power of data. In the digital economy today, data is the new gold for digital
enterprises. SAP allows organizations to act instantly through real-time,
data-driven insights to deliver delightful, meaningful experiences to their
customers, employees, suppliers and partners,” said Claus Andresen, President
and Managing Director, SAP Southeast Asia.

The ASEAN ICT Masterplan (AIM) 2020 was formulated and approved
by telecommunications and IT ministers from ASEAN member states in November
2015 during the 15th ASEAN Telecommunications and Information Technology
Ministers Meeting in Vietnam. The five-year plan provides guidelines
governments and businesses to drive the digital economy in ASEAN from 2016 to
2020.

For Singapore, the government has outlined its vision to be a
Smart Nation and has been making strides in executing on its digital strategy.
Earlier in 2017, the Committee on the Future Economy (CFE) published a report
that strongly recommended for Singapore to recognise and utilise data in the
new digital economy, highlighting the value of data as a new engine of growth.

According to IDC, organizations that capitalize and analyze all
relevant data and deliver actionable information could achieve an extra $430
billion (on a worldwide basis) in productivity benefits over their less
analytically oriented peers by 2020.  “As more organizations in South
East Asia become digitally-connected, they cannot escape this reality. The
increasing volume and detail of information captured by enterprises, the rise
of multimedia, social media, and the Internet of Things (IoT) will fuel exponential
growth in data for the foreseeable future. Governments and businesses alike
will need to be ready to leverage information and turn them into a key premise
of competition, supporting new influxes of efficiency development, advancement,
and customer surplus,” says Chwee Kan
Chua, Global Research Director, BDA and
Cognitive/AI.

According to a new global study by SAP, supported by Oxford
Economics, eighty-four percent of global companies say that digital
transformation is important to their survival in the next five years, but only
three percent have completed company-wide efforts. The study was released at the SAP
Asian Innovators Summit (AIS), taking place in Singapore on
August 15.

The global SAP
Digital Transformation Executive Study: 4 Ways Leaders Set Themselves Apart,
is based on survey results from more than senior executives across 17 countries
and regions, which include 195 business leaders from Southeast Asia. The
research identifies the challenges, opportunities, value, and key technologies
driving digital transformation.

“Singapore organizations who aspire to be digital leaders should
be empowered to act instantly through real-time, data-driven insights. With
data being the new currency in this new market landscape, they need to be
equipped with the tools to deliver delightful, meaningful experiences to their
customers, employees, suppliers and partners. Governments and businesses need
to operate with a digital core, such as the SAP S/4HANA, to master massive
amounts of data digitally in real time to guide critical decision making and
run live,” said Khor Chern Chuen, Managing Director, SAP Singapore.

To help
customers harness the power of data and advance their digital enterprise, SAP
recently launched a suite of IoT solutions. Part of the SAP
Leonardo digital innovation system, these IoT
solutions take advantage of advances in Big Data and analytics, the ability to
connect people, things and business with SAP Cloud Platform, and technologies
such as machine learning to enable IoT and Industry 4.0 strategies across
digital logistics, manufacturing and asset management.

The new solutions include:

·         SAP
Leonardo IoT Bridge, a configurable role-based
digital command center giving operations managers unprecedented visibility and
ability to act in real time

·         SAP
Global Track and Trace, a cloud-based offering for
unified, end-to-end tracking, monitoring and reporting of objects and business
processes across supply chain networks

·         SAP
Leonardo IoT Edge software to bring compute,
storage and business semantics via the cloud to where intelligent devices reside
outside of the data center, for near real-time and deterministic performance of
business processes

·         SAP
Digital Manufacturing Insights, a centralized,
cloud-based manufacturing performance management solution that provides
comprehensive visibility into manufacturing that enables process optimization

·         SAP
Asset Manager, a cloud-based mobile app for managing
asset health, inventory, maintenance and safety

SAP
Leonardo IoT Bridge is a live operations center that
converges, correlates and contextualizes IoT sensor data with business
processes and both structured and unstructured data. SAP Global
Track and Trace provides modeling of tracked business processes, is designed to
share data among the partners in the supply network, and is built on a Big Data
architecture for high volume and throughput.

Together,
the solutions are intended to integrate with SAP’s industry-leading
portfolio to enable new scenarios such as outbound logistics. Using delivery,
shipment, handling unit and vehicle number unit data from SAP Global Track and
Trace, combined with information from SAP
Connected Goods software such as pallet and
container sensor data, information on transport location from the SAP
Vehicle Insights application, and purchase
order data from SAP
S/4HANA® software
in core enterprise systems, SAP Leonardo IoT Bridge can provide cross-process,
cross-system visibility enterprise-wide so that command center and operations
leads can know exactly where a shipment is in transit, what is in the shipment,
and the condition and performance of the vehicle.

SAP is
co-innovating on digital logistics with leading companies around the globe,
including The Bosch Group, a leading global supplier of technology and services with roughly
390,000 associates worldwide. Bosch and SAP are collaborating
on scenarios for delivery track and trace, exploring cloud-to-cloud integration
with Bosch IoT Cloud.

Using the
container infrastructure of SAP Cloud Platform IoT services, SAP Leonardo IoT
Edge is intended to seamlessly work with other line-of-business solutions such
as SAP
Digital Manufacturing Insights. Providing
cloud-based, multitier analytics for full visibility into manufacturing on
multiple levels, SAP Digital Manufacturing Insights is seamlessly and securely
connected to the shop floor. This provides high-fidelity information overlaid
with business data to enable effective decision making. Together, digital
manufacturing and IoT solutions from SAP enable cohesive management of
operations and effective Industry 4.0 strategies.

A result of
SAP’s partnership with
Apple, SAP Asset Manager supports highly skilled professionals by mobilizing
key asset management processes. The
enterprise-grade mobile app provides the ease of use of consumer apps and a
delightful user experience available through the SAP Fiori® for iOS design
language.

SAP intends
for it to connect with digital solutions that
leverage SAP Leonardo IoT capabilities, such as SAP Asset
Intelligence Network and SAP
Predictive Maintenance and Service, to
further optimize asset management, mobile worker productivity and
interoperability with the vast IoT ecosystem and developer network.