JG SUMMIT HOLDINGS able to collaborate virtually . We moved people away from Microsoft Office to adopt a full suite of Microsoft collaboration tools . Even Microsoft has lauded how quickly we were able to implement that transformation ,” he says . “ We ' re definitely a leader in terms of cloud adoption in the Philippines .”
Now , Santos is taking a similar approach to pan-organisational analytics . “ We spearheaded training in order to get people comfortable with using analytics dashboards and reports . We ' ve started to ingrain these analytics into each of our business units , and are now using them as part of their day to day operations and strategy ,” he says .
Santos and his team ’ s drive to identify common needs between different business units is also allowing various JG Summit ’ s different business units to digitally transform their ERP capabilities faster and more successfully than organisations half their size – and with significantly less complexity . “ We ' re already one of the few players in our market that is already in the process of fully upgrading to SAP S / 4 HANA ,” he says . “ We ' ve already transitioned four out of eight business units to S / 4 HANA , and we ' re already ahead of where we wanted to be in terms of our roadmap . I expect that , in the
“ We ' re definitely a leader in terms of cloud adoption in the Philippines ”
CARLOS SANTOS GROUP CIO , JG SUMMIT HOLDINGS
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INFOSYS : PARTNERING FOR SUCCESS
Infosys and JG Summit Holdings have partnered on three key projects so far , the latest being the company ’ s data centre migration and consolidation . “ We had an eight month bidding process in the latter part of 2018 through to 2019 , and Infosys won the right to move our whole data centre architecture to the cloud , both public and private ,” says Santos .
As a result of Infosys ’ expertise , and by leveraging the scale of JG Summit , the project – which migrated a disparate data centre architecture spread across multiple business units into a single , unified , cloud-based solution – “ we were able to reduce cost , which also passed those reductions along to the individual business units ,” Santos explains . “ If you ' re a business unit and you do a data centre migration alone , you ' re going to pay more than if you do it as part of the group .”
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