SAP fortifies cloud strategy in India

MUMBAI, INDIA: SAP India announced a unified strategy of delivering next-generation cloud solutions to enable customers better manage their critical assets and relationships, namely HR, Finance, Customer and Procurement.

"The cloud has profoundly changed the way people interact. In enterprises today, IT is required to scale up, provide real-time insights into business and help companies decide, respond boldly and quickly," said John Ruthven, senior VP, Cloud and Line of Business, SAP Asia Pacific Japan.

"As we accelerate the transition to the cloud by offering customers choice, we will bring even more options to help provide enterprises with remarkable business value, radical simplification of their IT landscapes and tremendous competitive advantages."

SAP hybrid cloud offerings in gaining momentum as Indian companies realize the potential for transforming business capabilities and driving new innovative services.

The unified cloud offering provides simpler, faster and richer than ever before with a holistic approach that include:

- Cloud HR: Solutions from SuccessFactors, an SAP company, to drive workforce strategies and insights with confidence, and empowering people to take charge of their career.

- Cloud Finance: SAP Cloud for Financials (formerly SAP Financials OnDemand), SAP Cloud for Travel (formerly SAP Travel OnDemand) and SAP Business ByDesign solutions enable real-time intuitive financial insight to everyone across the business, assisting in compliant accounting and financial reporting for global enterprises.

- Cloud Customer: SAP Cloud for Sales, SAP Cloud for Service, and the new SAP Cloud for Marketing are collaborative, connected and insightful solutions using the underlying technology available in SAP Cloud for Customer (formerly SAP Customer OnDemand). A user-centric design makes it easy-to-use, while also empowering customer-facing personnel to make every customer engagement more relevant, personal and differentiated.

- Cloud Procurement: Ariba, an SAP company, combines industry-leading cloud-based procurement and invoicing applications with the world's largest Web-based trading community to help companies connect and collaborate with a global network of partners more efficiently and effectively than ever before.

Additionally, the company is working with the best and brightest of Milennials in country to provide the disruptive and exciting innovations to the market.