SAP World Tour unveils "CLEAR" Enterprise strategy for Indian companies

To Be "Best Run," Companies Must Embrace Change and Act with Greater Transparency and Accountability.

India – SAP customers, partners and industry experts in India gather on July 23rd at Le Meridian for IT industry’s premier business and technology road show hosted by SAP. Under an event theme of “See Your Way Clear: Strategies for Success in the New Reality,” SAP World tour seeks to explore how Indian companies can achieve transparency in every area of their operations to be best-run businesses in today’s challenging economic environment. Attendees at the annual event learn how to harness the power of SAP® solutions to run lean operations, capture greater profitability and gain transparency in their operations. The event is being held in 100 cities across 50 countries. In India, the SAP World Tour unveiled ‘Clear New World’ a new mid-term strategic thrust which shows Best-Run Businesses how to attain the vision they need to thrive in the new reality.

The SAP World Tour features four Industry tracks covering Government, Utilities, operational excellence and strategic IT. SAP customers delivering presentations at SAP World Tour include ONGC, ABB, RIL, Unilevers, BPCL and Hero Honda.

New Technologies and Strategies Will Radically Change the Way Organizations Operate and Respond to Market Fluctuations

The event features keynote presentation from Ranjan Das, Managing Director, SAP Indian subcontinent. The Keynote focuses on how technology enables companies to derive increased understanding, visibility and value — both of their own operations and those of their partner networks, ultimately allowing them to capitalize on strategic opportunities to increase profitability.

To survive in today’s business environment, companies must see clearly, think clearly, and act clearly. Becoming clear allows companies not only to survive and thrive in the near term, but to be sustainable over long term. Clear enterprises operate with increased speed, relevance and accuracy and can therefore drive their businesses with the ability to adjust strategies, processes, business network quickly in response to changing market conditions. This year’s agenda focus on the following topics:

Midsize company and small businesses solutions and services –

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SAP ERP application –

Improve alignment of your strategies and operations and enhance productivity and insight within your enterprise. With the SAP ERP application, you get the power to adapt quickly to changing industry requirements.

Enterprise service-oriented architecture –

Learn how enterprise service-oriented architecture can enable business and IT to work better together to improve your company's ability to change and grow.

Business process platform –

Discover how having a successful business process platform, which enables change through enterprise services that unite technology and applications, can deliver fundamental business functionality supported by highly reusable parts of SAP software.

Innovation and improvements in the SAP Business Suite applications –

Learn more about the SAP Business Suite applications and their new functionality.

SAP Services –

Learn about the cutting-edge service program innovations and comprehensive, best-practice services the SAP offers which span all phases of your solution life cycle. With SAP Services you can align your IT and business strategies, get SAP software up and running fast, and keep it operating at peak levels.

Hosting an on-demand solutions –

Find out more about the hosting and on–demand solutions that can help your company achieve its goals.

Business Process Outsourcing powered by SAP –

How can BPO help in these times of uncertainty?

“In today’s business environment our customers need to see clearly, think clearly and act clearly to thrive. Gaining clarity and then acting upon it, both within their organisation and across their wider business network, ensures our customers become Best-Run businesses,” said Ranjan Das, Managing Director, SAP Indian subcontinent. “The SAP World Tour 2009 provides business-oriented decision makers with valuable insights and best practices, to help them solve key business challenges.”

One of the highlights of SAP World tour is Asia Leadership dialogue, which SAP is bringing to each stop in partnership with the Platinum circle – a private community of enterprises. The Asia Leadership dialogue in India features a key note and discussion with Gaurav Dalmia, Board Member, Dalmia Group & Chairman, Landmark Holdings, who will speak about Leadership in new Asia.