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For a lot of businesses
aiming to become
intelligent enterprises,
Hans-Peter Fülle, Digital
Core Senior Vice President
of SAP EMEA South,
says they must leverage
the power of Big Data,
analytics and Intelligent
of Things.
I
ntelligent Enterprise is a long-term
strategy for businesses who understand
how operational data aligned with
experience data equates to the rapid
transformation of data into insight, which
feeds process automation, innovation and,
ultimately, optimised experiences.
Technology and innovation like SAP
Leonardo bring the power of operational
and experiential data to decision makers
through an integrated dashboard and
empowers brand and product managers as
well as employees to see an aggregation of
Big Data on one screen. When this is real,
business is fast on the path to being best run.
A global example of this in action would
be Hoerbiger, an industrial machinery and
components company, that leveraged the
IoT technology of the Leonardo portfolio
using the S/4HANA cloud platform to
connect to its wellhead compression units.
The implementation concluded with
FEATURE: BIG DATA
the company experiencing improved
visualisation, better unit access and
availability, improved service, and data
insights for better decision-making.
Hoerbiger now understands the true value of
standardisation after its move to S/4HANA
and can see it paving the way to innovation.
The system is drawing compressor data
continuously which, when transferred to
S/4HANA, automatically generates invoices.
The company is experiencing exponential
improvement in maintenance departments,
with predictive maintenance now a reality,
and algorithms set to keep a check on
performance. Hoerbiger has reduced labour
time by eliminating non value-added visits to
the wellheads, and completely removed the
need for manual paperwork.
At the SAPPHIRE NOW event held last
year, 75% of customers in attendance had
confirmed plans to migrate and this is a
big deal. But it would behove any business
planning to migrate to do just that, and plan.
Businesses must define where they want
to start and how fast they want to move.
They must determine how they want to
deploy and highlight conversations that
must be had, and a good next step would be
investigating the S/4HANA Adoption Starter
Pack. All of this will determine how and when
the journey can and should begin, and how it
should move forward. n
HOERBIGER NOW
UNDERSTANDS
THE TRUE
VALUE OF
STANDARDISATION
AFTER ITS MOVE
TO S/4HANA AND
CAN SEE IT PAVING
THE WAY TO
INNOVATION.
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