SAP has announced the winners of its annual SAP ANZ Partner Excellence Awards for 2024, an event dedicated to recognising partners’ outstanding performance in the last year. The awards cover 15 categories with the introduction of a new category- ‘Industry Disruptor’ - to celebrate noteworthy SAP solution rollouts that have changed the way business is conducted in the market.

SAP’s recent announcement of a company-wide restructure and cost-cutting exercise, including the loss of 8000 jobs globally, comes with a silver lining as the company reports significant take-up for the cloud-based platforms that have quickly become its key focus.

SAP has announced a comprehensive set of resources, services, and financial incentives to help every customer move to the cloud and maintain the pace and level of innovation that cloud enables.

The RISE with SAP Migration and Modernisation program aims to helps customers become and remain innovation-ready to benefit from ongoing updates and new innovations.

Significant transformative initiatives undertaken by companies in Australia and New Zealand have contributed to a notable increase in SAP's fourth-quarter cloud revenue throughout the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region.

Coles Group becomes the first organisation in the Southern Hemisphere to launch all modules of SAP's SuccessFactors simultaneously, replacing multiple outdated systems with HR and payroll processing systems powered by AI and automation.

This article discusses the main theme’s and highlights from the recent Mastering SAP Conference which was held in November on the Gold Coast.