With more businesses in West Africa adopting cloud technologies than ever before, the region is set to enhance its competitiveness significantly.
Following years of disruption, and hampered by a lack of legacy investment into technology, West African businesses now have an opportunity to leapfrog tech adoption and leverage the cloud for rapid growth and success
Titilayo Adewumi, Regional Sales Director for West Africa at SAP, says: “Companies across the region are adopting cloud to achieve greater scalability, improve their data and analytics capabilities, drive innovation and build greater resilience. A huge part of our success in supporting the region’s digital transformation efforts is our close collaboration with expert partners that continuously find new ways to innovate.”
Digitalisation a huge opportunity
The World Bank recently
noted that digitalisation is one of the most transformational
opportunities of our time, highlighting its role in alleviating poverty and
boosting shared prosperity in West Africa.
In light of this, cloud technologies offer tremendous benefits to organisations
in the region. These include lowering the total cost of ownership of technology
capabilities, achieving faster deployment cycles, automating manual processes
to boost efficiency, enabling quicker adoption of emerging technologies, and
creating opportunities for organisations to leverage industry best practices to
standardise their business processes.
Adewumi singles out the partnership with global consulting firm PwC as a major
driver of digital transformation success in the region. “PwC’s innovative
approach to solving business problems through technology combined with keen
business insight has helped organisations across the region become more
successful and build capabilities fit-for-purpose in the highly competitive
digital economy. From enabling remote work and driving adoption of artificial
intelligence and machine learning to gain insight into key business areas to
meeting the demand for improved user experiences, SAP’s partnership with PwC is
delivering game-changing benefits to innovative companies throughout the
region.”
PwC is an SAP Platinum
member with years of experience implementing SAP’s solutions and co-innovating
on new ways to apply technology to solve key business challenges. The company’s
unique value equation combines deep sector experience and a business-led
perspective with SAP’s technology innovation to help businesses accelerate
growth and sustain value through user-centric transformation.
Abimbola Taiwo, Director:
Tech Advisory & ERP Lead at PwC Nigeria, adds: “Our partnership with SAP
has unlocked significant value to PwC customers. By supporting West African
organisations for the future of work through cloud technology, we help them
enable secure remote and hybrid work. Innovation and collaboration are further
driven through the replacement of disparate IT systems with one consolidated
system that serves as a single source of truth, offering real-time visibility
over key business functions.”
Driving cloud adoption, innovation
PwC recently introduced
its New Equation global strategy that focuses on two interconnected
organisational needs: building trust across the broad range of areas that are
important to stakeholders, and delivering sustained outcomes in an operating
environment where the risk of disruption is greater than ever before.
“Part of our purpose as a
company is to solve important societal problems,” says Taiwo. “Helping
businesses succeed and economies thrive is a fundamental part of achieving this
purpose. Cloud technology provides a digital platform that enables companies to
innovate at speed and scale while delivering accurate insights in real time to
improve decision-making. For example, a leading conglomerate in Nigeria is
currently implementing SAP Success Factors to enhance its human capital
management capabilities, while a large mining company in Ghana is leveraging
Rise with SAP to fast-track their deployment of the market-leading SAP S/4HANA
platform.”
Taiwo says there are plans
to work even closer with SAP over the coming years. “The partnership with SAP
is a strategic alliance that helps us achieve one of our six focus areas for
Africa, namely Digitisation and Technology. PwC has been positioned as a market
leader and trusted advisor in the digital transformation space through our work
guiding clients on their journey to become intelligent, data-driven
enterprises, gleaned from years of experience powered by SAP’s technology.”
Adewumi adds: “SAP is a
partner-led organisation that works closely with the innovators, experts, and
market leaders to ensure African enterprises have the technology, business
insight and support they need to bring their intelligent enterprise ambitions
to life. We look forward to deepening our partnership with PwC and being
central role-players in the continued digitalisation of organisations across
the West African region.”
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