Adani Group selects SAP for business transformation

SAP AG announced on Monday that Ahmedabad-based Adani Group has selected SAP software to consolidate its IT systems and power a strategic transformation across the company's diversified operations. To support its rapid-growth ambitions and further differentiate itself from competitors, the Adani Group is expanding its SAP footprint by adopting industry-specific solutions.

According to the business management software solutions provider, Adani aims to achieve uniform best practices and greater visibility across all of its diverse lines of business. With the agreement, SAP will assist the Adani Group in accelerating its enterprise-wide rollout of over 40 SAP applications, including enterprise performance management solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio and the SAP NetWeaver technology platform.

 

"Adani Group is committed to building a world-class organisation with world-class competencies. We believe that technology will play a pivotal role on our journey toward achieving our business objectives. Our association with SAP will provide better insights across the enterprise to innovate, expand our international market frontiers and guarantee a scalable foundation for the organisation's future growth,"said Devang Desai, executive director and group chief financial officer, Adani Group.

Adani's business portfolio includes power generation and transmission, coal mining, port, special economic zone (SEZ), shipping and bunkering, logistics, agro-based industries, real estate, oil and gas explorations and gas distribution. The Adani Group is working with SAP to implement a scalable, standardized IT platform to help support and speed decision-making, manage costs and enable operational excellence across the group's companies.

"Adani Group is a testament of an Indian corporation making strides globally. Its position as a dynamic business group with diversified interests is built on a strong foundation of industry knowledge, partnerships and impeccable business insights. Our relationship with Adani Group underscores SAP's ability to serve our customers' various lines of business with industry-specific solutions and best-in-class business analytics," said Peter Gartenberg, managing director, SAP India.

The business transformation aims to support information-based decision-making through real-time analysis, lower total cost of ownership while creating a standardized and integrated IT landscape, deliver value through integration, collaboration and synergy within the group's companies, and create an integrated value chain across the Adani Group.