SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that Hemas Holdings PLC has partnered with SAP to deploy SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, a world-class cloud hosting service for applications, platform, and maintenance across its entire group to improve large scale business transformation. With SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud, Hemas brings together the ease of the cloud with the industry-leading innovation and performance of SAP HANA.
SAP is working with Hemas to manage its entire SAP infrastructure on the Cloud on a 24x7 basis, move Hemas to SAP’s HANA platform and use the power of application accelerators and SAP HANA Live to enhance the capabilities of the Hemas Group’s current IT platform.
Hemas will use SAP’s Business Intelligence powered by SAP HANA and Business Planning and Consolidation solutions powered by SAP HANA to improve business visibility and strategic planning. With this SAP becomes the first Enterprise Solutions provider to host an entire Sri Lankan business conglomerate on cloud.
Hemas is one of the foremost companies in Sri Lanka to implement an SAP ERP® system in the country, which enabled them to integrate core business processes such as manufacturing, finance and sales across the group.The implementation of the ERP has helped the Group to improve shareholder value, revenue, cost reduction and assist in business process improvement.
Ravi Chauhan, Managing Director, SAP India said, “With the adoption of SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud, we aim to support Hemas in gaining greater visibility across the enterprise and improved business agility in decision making.
With this cloud-based offering SAP will assist the entire Hemas group to upgrade its existing SAP ERP® application and add new functionalities with ease, simplify the adoption of innovative solutions for transformational initiatives-paving the way for Hemas to Run Better and Run Simple.”
SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud improves response time, brings innovation to meet today’s problems and tomorrow’s challenges, increases efficiencies across the group and produces real-time business insights. The process improvements based on the faster, more robust HANA architecture with its in-built applications accelerators and SAP HANA Live reporting capabilities will also simplify key business processes.
Speaking about the SAP HANA® deployment, Chandima Cooray, Chief Process Officer, Hemas Holdings PLC said, “We are entering a phase of accelerated growth for Hemas in a challenging market environment. We see this initiative with SAP as an essential early step to have the right platform that will help us execute our initiatives towards achieving operational excellence and becoming more innovative at a higher velocity than traditional IT platforms support.”
SAP is at the center of today’s technology revolution, developing innovations that not only help businesses run like never before, but also improve the lives of people everywhere. This partnership with SAP will assist Hemas Holdings to run its business processes in real time on cloud, promote innovation, speed up processes, and simplify interactions across its diverse sectors which include FMCG, Pharmaceutical, Hospital, Transportation and Leisure.
Photo Caption - Steven Enderby, Group CEO, Hemas Holdings PLC; Ravi Chauhan, Managing Director, SAP India; Ama Ekanayake, Head of IT Business Partnering, Hemas Holdings PLC; Chandima Cooray, Chief Process Officer, Hemas Holdings PLC and Michael Sathasivam, Business Head, SAP Sri Lanka.