EOH International has become the first company to go live with S/4 HANA Public Cloud in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The first phase of the global roll-out focused on the UAE in order to prepare the foundation for future phases and global adoption, streamlining the groups own international operations.
The implementation was completed in six weeks, primarily from South Africa, leveraging an agile approach to implementation and enabling the back-office operations of the company in the UAE.
In April this year, as one of the few Lighthouse partners selected by SAP, EOH became the first African adopter of SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
As a global enterprise application and digital solution implementation specialist, the expanding footprint and multi-national presence of EOH International has driven the need to review the management of its complex back office, as well as its transactional and reporting requirements internally.
In order to address the scale required and future growth plans, EOH required a cloud-based solution with the ERP portfolio strength of a partner like SAP.
“Implementing this solution ourselves was a critical, but easy decision, aligned to our positioning in the ICT market place as an innovative technology and services company driving digital transformation agendas with our global customers,” says Stephen Nurcombe-Thorne, chief technology officer of EOH International. “As a result of completing a SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud implementation in the UAE supported from South Africa within our own business, we have established the experience, know-how and practical capabilities around public cloud services adoption, thereby being able to provide our customers with experienced consultants and a track record.”
EOH’s Stephen Nurcombe-Thorne notes the ease of migration from a traditional on-premise solution to a cloud solution. “Coming from a traditional on-premise world, we were, like many of our customers, concerned about adoption. We were pleasantly surprised at the resulting seamless adoption, with many of our resources remarking on how similar the processes were.”
