PTCL and Ufone have become Pakistan’s first telecommunication company to engage IBM for business transformation through ‘Rise with SAP’ on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
President and Group CEO of PTCL & Ufone, Mr. Hatem Bamatraf stated that the initiative aimed to drive efficiency; effectiveness and innovation at the company in line with its digital transformation goals. The Group signed the agreement with SAP, IBM and Amazon Web Services on the sidelines of the recently concluded GITEX Global 2022 in Dubai, UAE.
IBM’s ‘RISE with SAP’ embeds SAP S/4HANA, a leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) application that optimizes resource allocation, real-time data insights, streamlining business processes, and bridging organizational information silos, thereby enhancing the agility and efficacy of the enterprise by folds.
PTCL & Ufone will be the first telecommunications provider in Pakistan to benefit from SAP implementation services with IBM, Hyperscaler Cloud services with AWS, and an ERP solution with SAP. The project will enable PTCL & Ufone to offer Cloud services, modernize business processes, and gain better business insights, besides being able to access data on demand and share it with relevant departments in near real-time to significantly improve business operations and customer services.
The Group’s business transformation project is the largest of its kind in Pakistan’s corporate sector that will not only accelerate the company’s digital transformation but also help it access new business models and markets much faster. It also aims to reduce the duplication of efforts through improved business insight, ensure increased transparency, and help the organization gain necessary competitiveness in the information age.
“We are excited to migrate PTCL and Ufone towards a new operational journey as the first mover in the region, which will ultimately become the footprint for advancement in the operations of Pakistan’s Telecom sector,” Hatem Bamatraf stated in his address.
The Group says, it will host the SAP S/4HANA landscape on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is a global Cloud services provider that has over a million customers globally and provides over 200 Cloud services to host a wide range of applications, including SAP.
