Mahindra Group and SAP to drive business transformation

By siliconindia   |   Friday, 14 November 2008, 21:35 IST
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Bangalore: SAP AG, a provider of business software offering applications and services announced that the Mahindra Group has signed an enterprise agreement with SAP for consolidation of systems and strategic transformation across the company's diversified operational landscape. Both companies will work together to design and implement a scalable, standardized IT landscape across the Mahindra Group that will yield significant benefits due to synergy. The announcement was made at SAP TechEd 2008 Bangalore, India. By entering into an enterprise agreement with the Mahindra Group, SAP will assist in accelerating the company's enterprise-wide rollout of end-to-end SAP solutions and technologies to drive scale and business process innovation that supports growth, to lower total cost of ownership while creating a standardized and integrated IT landscape and to deliver value through integration, collaboration and synergy within the Mahindra group. Under the agreement, common processes across the Mahindra Group of companies, such as human resources, employee services, administration, finance, procurement and analytics, will be standardized on the SAP technology platform. The agreement is designed to cover all software, maintenance, consulting services and support under SAP's support offering. The agreement also extends SAP's position as a leader in providing comprehensive enterprise software for the automotive and manufacturing industries. The ability to rapidly integrate new operations resulting from mergers and acquisitions, shift supplies due to changing demand and collaborate across a business network of partners is vital to companies as they strive for market share and greater profitability in the industry.