FPT IS and SAP to introduce SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud solution to the Vietnamese market

As a leading partner of SAP, FPT Information System Corporation (FPT IS) has pioneered and introduced SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud – SAP’s new Cloud ERP solution – at the seminar themed “Accelerate business growth with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud suite”. With valuable sharings from leading tech experts of SAP and FPT IS, the seminar opens up a promising approach to Cloud ERP for businesses.

Cloud ERP – The trend of the future 

Recently, FPT IS and SAP have jointly organized the seminar themed “Accelerate business growth with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud suite” in Ho Chi Minh city. The event is attended by more than 100 senior leaders from businesses in various fields, such as Manufacturing, Trade, Services, Retail, Technology, Finance – Banking…, showing the great interest of the market in this solution.

FPT IS and SAP have jointly organized the seminar themed “Accelerate business growth with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud suite”.

Speaking of the current context, Mr. Phan Thanh Son – Chief Business Development Officer, FPT IS – says, the uncertainty and constant fluctuations of the market require businesses to have a solid and flexible management platform to adapt to increasingly rapid, diverse and systematic changes.

“SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud solution provides an open approach for businesses of all sizes and sectors to quickly apply management processes compliant with international standards and completely address the problem of business management in a volatile market context. In particular, the solution helps reduce 50% of costs and time for launching, thereby generating breakthroughs in business activities. FPT IS is committed to working closely with SAP to deploy the solution for businesses in diverse fields in the Vietnamese market”, emphasized Mr. Son.

Mr. Phan Thanh Son – Chief Business Development Officer, FPT IS – speaks at the seminar.

Sharing the same opinion, Mr. Nguyen Hong Viet – Managing Director of SAP Vietnam – says that with flexible integration and expansion features, SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud comprehensively eliminates the obstacles businesses often encounter when using ERP, such as unready resources, complex technology, high costs, or the feasibility of the solution in practice. It can be said that Cloud ERP opens the “door” to ERP deployment to all businesses, especially the SMEs.

SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is an ERP SaaS solution that allows customers to exploit the system on SAP’s public cloud platform, saving maximum time and costs of deployment. Speaking of the dominance of this solution compared to conventional ones, Mr. Ankur Dey – Region Lead (APJ), Business Development and GTM, SaaS Cloud ERP, SAP – emphasizes that SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is designed with more than 800 standardized processes that can be applied immediately by businesses, more than 600 available APIs that facilitate integration, more than 250 scenarios to handle typical business situations, as well as the “localization” features to suit the business environment characteristics in Vietnam.

Mr. Ankur Dey – Region Lead (APJ), Business Development and GTM, SaaS Cloud ERP, SAP – mentions the dominance of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud.

Currently, the SAP’s solution has recorded 200 million cloud users across the world with 7.2 billion financial documents processed. The solution is listed in top prestigious rankings of Gartner, Forrester, IDC and helps save up to 99.7% of time in business operations. In particular, the solution is upgraded by SAP every 6 months to ensure continuous response to the businesses’ needs for expansion and new updates on technology.

To give a clearer view, Mr. Son Tran – Presale Lead, SAP Vietnam – has performed a demo of the SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud’s operating process and presented the solution’s advanced features. The solution is designed based on the combination of up-to-date technologies such as automatic Bot, virtual assistants, machine learning along with optimal UI/UX, aiming towards completely automated processes, providing a governance system with outstanding digital experience for businesses. The system integrates industries’ best practices drawn from SAP’s 50 years of operation, as well as hundreds of built-in business scenarios, thereby being capable of responding to any future business needs.

Pioneering in deploying SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud for businesses in Vietnam

“Getting started with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud is as simple as signing up for a Netflix account”, says Mr. Ankur Dey. Indeed, Cloud ERP does not require businesses to invest in hardware or infrastructure upgrade, but it still ensures complete data safety and security. Proceeding with Cloud ERP, businesses only need to focus on core values, product development, customer service enhancement… and do not need to worry about hardware, security, or operations.

Mr. Nguyen Hong Viet – Managing Director of SAP Vietnam – says, although it has been deployed in many countries around the world, this is the first time SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud has been introduced in Vietnam. “SAP has set high expectations for the strategic cooperation over the past 20 years with FPT IS to move towards a strong growth for SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud in Vietnam. Currently, FPT IS is SAP’s leading partner, and we are always ready to accompany businesses, visit each and every factory and office, work with the operating teams to understand the problems and untangle the bottlenecks, thereby creating development momentum for businesses in the future”, emphasized Mr. Viet.

Mr. Nguyen Hong Viet – Managing Director of SAP Vietnam – expects that SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud will be widely deployed in Vietnam.

In addition, Mr. Lim Chin Ee – Digital Transformation Solution Architect, Enterprise Sector, FPT IS – has discussed major criteria to successfully implement an ERP project. The first one is that businesses need to have an appropriate solution with ready processes and methods. SAP Activate Methodology is a powerful tool to support the solution implementation process.

“The second one is the implementation methodology, which is already available in SAP Activate Methodology – a methodology drawn from SAP’s best practices. The last one is to develop powerful integration tools to configure, deploy, and launch the system. With the best practices from SAP and FPT IS’s extensive experience in diverse fields, we are confident to successfully deploy SAP S/4HANA Cloud for many businesses”, emphasized Mr. Lim Chin Ee.

Mr. Lim Chin Ee – Digital Transformation Solution Architect, Enterprise Sector, FPT IS – discusses major criteria to successfully implement an ERP project.

Addressing an inquiry of why FPT IS is a trusted partner for businesses in terms of ERP implementation in general and ERP Cloud in particular, Mr. Dao Duy Quang – Senior Consultant, Enterprise Sector, FPT IS – mentions 3 core factors. First, FPT IS has had 25 years of experience with a proven implementation methodology. Next, the company owns a team of experts who deeply understand business problems across all fields and have mastered SAP solutions. More importantly, FPT IS has a suite of specialized solutions combined with the “best practices” in each field, as well as extensive capacity and experience to advise and accompany businesses on the digital transformation journey in a comprehensive way. With an ecosystem of diverse “Made by FPT IS” solutions, FPT IS can effectively integrate digital solutions that revolve around ERP, creating a sustainable governance system for businesses.

Taking advantage of and continuing the successes achieved, FPT IS and SAP will proceed to deploy SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud in Vietnam to help businesses redesign processes, shift operations to “agile” methods, expand business activities, enhance performance, and elevate position in the market.

Typical ERP projects that FPT IS has deployed for businesses include: 100 days of streamlining the entire processes and operations across Coteccons; creating “new standards” in the digital transformation project with a huge scale of over 90 member companies of Dat Xanh Group; pioneering digital transformation in the agricultural industry with Tan Long; digitalizing more than 200 standard processes to address the problem of labor productivity for Boston Pharma…

FPT IS is currently SAP’s Gold partner in Vietnam. The company has acquired SAP’s specialized certificate on ERP implementation, aiming to become the leading vendor in terms of SAP Cloud projects, especially RISE S/4HANA, for the domestic market. Last April, FPT IS has won three prestigious awards from SAP, i.e, Partner of the Year, Best Rise Partner, and Outstanding Performance in Midmarket.