Showing posts with label SAP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SAP. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Deloitte and Google Cloud unveil plans to collaborate on next-generation security offerings

Building on their existing global alliance, Deloitte and Google Cloud announces that they will jointly leverage the strength of their portfolios in cyber and cloud solutions to provide customers with end-to-end secure cloud transformation services and solutions in support of their digital transformation journeys and to better combat cyber threats.

As organizations move more of their businesses to the cloud, better control over data and activities in the cloud, as well as preventing privilege misuse, becomes critically important. Migrating a single application to cloud can seem straightforward, but more often, that application's function is tied to multiple business processes. Deloitte employs complex logic, data-driven analysis, and automated tools to rapidly map your applications and infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), helping to increase speed, quality and savings.


Deloitte has received Google Cloud’s Cloud Migration and Infrastructure specializations, demonstrating success in architecting and building GCP infrastructure and workflows, and migrating customer workloads to GCP.

Google Cloud’s infrastructure is designed, built and operated with rigorous attention to security. Deloitte has spent decades helping clients protect their businesses from security threats, and can help move securely to the cloud.

As clients increasingly leverage cloud native services to modernize their existing application portfolios and build new and innovative products and services for their customers, they turn to us to help drive increased value through Google Cloud. Its functional knowledge of client businesses and products, combined with the capability of Google Cloud services, helps clients reduce technology operating costs, accelerate innovation, and increase business agility and security.

Through its alliance with SAP, Deloitte and Google have the people, knowledge and experience to help capture the transformative potential of SAP running on Google’s fast, reliable, and global platform. Its integrated SAP offering can help leverage the power of SAP S/4 HANA and Deloitte’s preconfigured solutions to devise a comprehensive cloud strategy.

As a recognized global leader in business analytics and business strategy, Deloitte and Google are able to help harness the power of Google Cloud’s array of big data processing and analytics tools to enable data-driven insights at speeds and volumes that were previously unimaginable. Combined with its cognitive computing practices, Deloitte uses Google Cloud’s machine learning engine to provide next-generation machine learning offerings that help solve tough business challenges.

Deloitte provides dedicated, active, scalable cloud management as a service to help you set the pace of change in your industry. We leverage our secure platform and worldwide network of specialists to understand every dimension of your challenges and how they impact your requirements. Deloitte’s business insight, coupled with turnkey, on-demand cloud management offerings on Google Cloud, make it possible to accelerate the path to cloud.


"The increasing integration, interconnectedness, and data exchange of our businesses and lives create shared vulnerabilities where a problem in one area can quickly cascade into another. By building security into these environments, organizations can better protect their data, privacy, and operations," said Deborah Golden, U.S. cyber leader, Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory, and principal in Deloitte & Touche LLP. "Together with Google, we are supporting secure transformative change for our clients, something that all organizations should prioritize, and can enable them to be better secured in their critical cyber and cloud needs."

"For enterprise customers moving to the cloud, security isn't an afterthought, it's at the top of every CIO's list, and in general is a board level topic," said Sunil Potti, vice president engineering at Google Cloud Security. "Building in the right security processes and controls from the beginning of the cloud journey can significantly reduce risks and costs for customers, and so we are delighted to be collaborating with Deloitte to help deliver end-to-end security services and solutions to our joint-customers."

As a Google Cloud Security Premier Partner, Deloitte offers cloud security services to its clients globally and helps assist Google Cloud Platform customers address security, privacy and compliance related risks as they migrate and transform their business in the cloud. 

As part of growing the alliance, Deloitte will offer Google Cloud customers cloud security solutions in the areas of security monitoring and threat response, zero trust, identity and access management (IAM) and data security. 

The alliance will also provide next-generation capabilities that can help organizations proactively detect, continuously monitor and respond to unauthorized activity before it can adversely affect networks, and establish and operationalize a zero trust architecture and program to continuously monitor and authenticate users — constantly determining their level of risk based on who they are, what they access, and when and where they do it from. 

The companies will also enhance a digital transformation strategy and lay the foundation to leverage new data-driven identity models as they evolve, and provide a suite of services designed to help organizations address data risk management challenges and help them understand the value of their data and privacy considerations, as well as to operationalize their data risk governance program. 

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

SoftwareONE acquires BNW to accelerate SAP capabilities on public cloud hyperscalers

SoftwareONE announced on Tuesday that it has acquired BNW Consulting, a provider of SAP platform transformation, public cloud migration and application management services. In line with SoftwareONE’s strategy, this acquisition will strengthen and extend the group’s SAP Technology Services capabilities focused on public cloud migrations, S/4 HANA transformation and support.

Founded in 1996 and based in Melbourne, BNW is a growing technology and cloud consulting company that deals in services around SAP platform transformation and migration from on-premises to public cloud hyperscale platforms, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Ali Cloud. 


In addition, BNW offers organizations its proprietary SAP-certified tool, PowerConnect, that provides analytical insights into SAP performance data across on-premise and cloud infrastructures, as well as security and business process data. BNW currently supports organizations in Australia, APAC, Europe and the United States, and will be available globally with the SoftwareONE global portfolio and footprint.

Warwick Chai, founder and Managing Director of BNW, and Stefan Baumann, co-owner and Chief Operating Officer, will join Daniel Da Vinci, SoftwareONE’s SAP Global Practice Director, in leadership roles. 


Consistent with SoftwareONE’s “Vision 2022”, the BNW acquisition will strengthen and extend SoftwareONE’s Technology Services capabilities and advance its global SAP Technology Practice as one area of strategic importance for customers and expected growth for SoftwareONE.

“We welcome BNW’s 30+ SAP technology specialists, who will significantly enhance SoftwareONE’s global SAP & Technology Services capability, in our group,” said Dieter Schlosser, CEO SoftwareONE. “Our new colleagues will service their customers in APAC and the US, and beyond, in close conjunction with the established Manila SAP Center of Excellence”.

Earlier this year, SoftwareONE announced that it had acquired SAMSentry, a software governance technology. The technology will be incorporated into SoftwareONE’s managed services portfolio, to work in conjunction with Software Asset Management (SAM) technologies such as Flexera, Snow and ServiceNow. 


To drive additional value across the software estate and existing technology investments; while visualizing findings and tracking on-going improvements.

SAMSentry utilizes insights derived from machine learning across millions of data points to manage and measure organizations against industry best practice, based on over 10,000 consultancy hours. 

Through its dashboard, SAMSentry helps organizations understand what action needs to be taken to improve efficiency and high-risk internal processes. With a focus on the latest security, data protection and cloud management standards, SAMSentry uses blockchain technology on Microsoft Azure cloud.

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Bill McDermott takes over as ServiceNow CEO from John Donahoe, who is stepping down to become Nike CEO

ServiceNow announced Tuesday that Bill McDermott will join ServiceNow by year-end 2019 as president and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. McDermott will succeed John Donahoe, who is stepping down from ServiceNow to become president and CEO of Nike in January 2020. 

To ensure a smooth transition, Donahoe will remain ServiceNow’s CEO through the transition period and will retain his seat on the company’s Board of Directors for the remainder of his current term, ending in June 2020.

McDermott brings to ServiceNow extensive global leadership experience in enterprise software and a proven track record of driving transformative growth and strong shareholder value. McDermott served as CEO of SAP from 2014 until this month and was co-CEO from 2010 to 2014. 

McDermott recently announced his decision to not renew his contract and to step down as CEO, following a 17-year career with the company. He is joining ServiceNow following his transition from that role.

During McDermott’s tenure as co-CEO and CEO, SAP tripled its market value to approximately $140 billion, growing into a global software company with more than 437,000 customers in over 180 countries. 




McDermott led SAP’s successful transition to the cloud and generated substantial increases in total revenue, profit, employee engagement and environmental sustainability. 

Prior to SAP, McDermott held senior executive positions at Siebel Systems, Gartner and Xerox, where he started his career in sales and held a series of increasingly senior leadership roles throughout a 17-year career with that company.

In connection with the announcement, ServiceNow also provided preliminary third quarter 2019 financial results, as well as updated guidance for its full year 2019 financial outlook. As a reminder, the guidance ServiceNow provided on its second quarter earnings call on July 24, 2019, was based on foreign currency exchange (FX) rates as of June 30, 2019. These rates subsequently experienced declines.



The company’s full-year guidance issued Tuesday is based on FX rates as of Sept. 30, 2019. For the third quarter 2019, subscription revenues were $835 million, representing 35 percent year-over-year growth, adjusted for FX. Subscription revenues for the third quarter exceeded the mid-point of ServiceNow’s guidance by $9 million, excluding the impact of foreign exchange.

Subscription billings for the third quarter were $864 million, representing 29 percent year-over-year growth, adjusted for FX and duration. Subscription billings for the third quarter exceeded the mid-point of ServiceNow’s guidance by $10 million, excluding the impacts of FX and duration.

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