G3G South Africa has announced the achievement of SAP Gold Partner status. This award is in recognition of their numerous successful implementations of both SAP Business One® and SAP S/4HANA® solutions. This coveted Gold Partner status demonstrates G3G’s strong commitment to providing their clients with the highest levels of SAP expertise, service and support, as well as business performance in selling SAP software licences. 

“This is a great achievement for G3G South Africa,” said Mike Hartman, Regional Director – Africa. “There are over 30 SAP partners in the territory and G3G is one of just five who have achieved SAP Gold Partner status. We are blessed with a great base of clients, a strong relationship with SAP and some of the best SAP Consultants and support staff in the region.” 

G3G and SAP work with organisations across Southern Africa to create lasting and sustainable business transformation by implementing SAP software, with a focus on SAP Business One and SAP S/4HANA. As a strategic SAP S/4HANA Move partner, G3G offers  SAP clients a low-risk, low-cost option to convert to S/4HANA, a methodology which has been successfully deployed globally. They also focus on delivering cutting-edge innovation through their subscription-based SAP Business One offerings, which are also deployed on HANA.

G3G’s diverse portfolio of clients includes manufacturing companies, mining operations, retailers and professional services companies, to name but a few, demonstrating that the need to digitise business processes and accelerate business activities is not limited to a specific sector.

G3G believes that showing commitment to the SAP Partner Programme is critical to building long-term relationships with the SAP community. The SAP Gold Partner status provides them with increased access to SAP’s technology roadmaps and product development, allowing their clients to reap the benefits from early insight into process improvements, helping them to facilitate better business planning and retain a competitive edge.

About G3G 

G3G deliver SAP® solutions and services to empower organisations to streamline operations, reduce IT costs and improve reporting capabilities. Our team of experienced consultants utilise unparalleled industry knowledge and expertise to deliver the powerful implementation and SAP support solutions that drive sustainable business growth. G3G has earned an enviable reputation for successfully addressing challenging technology-related issues for large, complex, multi-national organisations; inspiring businesses to use SAP technology in creative and innovative ways to deliver meaningful and tangible results. 

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The energy sector will finally become ‘cool’“

I believe the energy sector will go through a big transformation that is going to surprise all of us and the energy sector will finally become ‘cool’!,” says Brian G. Williams, Industry Advisory Director, Utilities Industry, SAP EMEA. The global software giant has joined African Utility Week as a gold sponsor at the conference and exhibition that is taking place from 16-18 May in Cape Town. Brian is a featured speaker in the Transmission & Distribution conference track focusing on “Digital Transformation: What impact will the Internet of Things have on utilities?”

Says Brian Williams: “the SAP Africa message at African Utility Week will be that organisations need to focus on becoming a relevant digital utility of the future. SAP will focus on how new technology and big data can be used to significantly improve efficiencies and how the performance of utilities Infrastructure can be optimised, to prolong the asset life span, maximise energy production, minimise downtime and reduce maintenance cost.”

He adds: “SAP is investing in all Energy & Natural Resource Industries (utilities, oil & gas, mill & mining & chemicals) and in all African regions (South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Lusophone, North Africa, East and West Africa). We have studied the full map of the 53 African countries where we have identified the regions of high, medium and lower opportunities for transformation in each of the four industries. For instance, in utilities we considered that all countries are potentially capable to transform and use the power of digital, to improve their energy value chain, because every country has an electricity, gas or water champion.”    

More than 4,500 utility companies in 123 countries are innovating with SAP Solutions. Forty-five of the top 50 utility companies in the world run SAP solutions.

Award-winning energy platform
The 17th annual African Utility Week will gather over 7000 decision makers from more than 80 countries to source the latest solutions and meet over 300 suppliers. Along with multiple side events and numerous networking functions the event also boasts a five track conference with over 300 expert speakers.

The conference programme will address the latest challenges, developments and opportunities in the power and water sectors: ranging from generation, T&D, nuclear, renewable energy, metering, technology and water.

The African Utility Week expo offers an extensive technical workshop programme that are CPD accredited, free to attend, hands-on presentations that take place in defined spaces on the exhibition floor. They discuss practical, day-to-day technical topics, best practices and product solutions that businesses, large power users and utilities can implement in their daily operations.

African Utility Week and Energy Revolution Africa is the flagship energy event organised by the multi-award winning Spintelligent, leading Cape Town-based trade exhibition and conference organiser, and part of Clarion Events Ltd, based in the UK. Other well-known energy events by Spintelligent are Future Energy Nigeria (formerly known as WAPIC), Future Energy East Africa (formerly EAPIC), Future Energy Uganda and Future Energy Central Africa.

Earlier this year, Spintelligent won four major awards at AAXO’s ROAR Organiser and Exhibitor Awards, with African Utility Week named the joint winner for Best Trade Exhibition 6001-12000 sqm category (with the World Travel Market).

Dates for African Utility Week and Energy Revolution Africa:
Conference and expo: 16-18 May 2017
Awards gala dinner:  17 May 2016
Site visits: 19 May 2016
Location: CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa

The full interview with Brian can be read here: http://www.african-utility-week.com/SAP-AUW-interview
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/AfricaUtilities  #AUW2017   
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Pyramid Analytics unlocks new analytics opportunities for SAP customers  

Johannesburg — September 27, 2016 — Pyramid Analytics, the next-generation business analytics platform for the enterprise, today announced new functionality in BI Office that delivers streamlined and governed access to all data sources in the SAP system, including SAP HANA and SAP BW. Using an SAP®-certified connector, customers can unify their SAP data with other critical enterprise data sources within BI Office, empowering both executives and business users to make more informed, data-driven decisions.  “Thousands of the world’s largest enterprises rely on SAP data to run their business. These data sources represent everything from HR records, CRM system data, and inventory management, which, when combined with other data sources, tell a powerful story that informs a better decision process,” said Omri Kohl, Pyramid Analytics co-founder and CEO. “Because Pyramid Analytics is using a certified connector to SAP, our enterprise customers will be able to easily and confidently integrate their SAP data with our best-in-class enterprise business analytics platform. And they can do so in a secure, governed environment while giving their end users the ability to be innovative with SAP data in a self-service analytics environment.” BI Office enables businesses to:

Curate data models in a governed and secured framework: The robust role-based security framework in BI Office enables IT to make sanctioned SAP data available to the business users in a managed and secured way. This creates an integrated end-to-end analytics workflow that ensures everyone is working from the most current information, without sacrificing IT governance or administrative control.

Allow users to connect to all SAP data sources in a self-service environment: With the intuitive interface of BI Office, coupled with the integration of the connector, users can make their own data models to merge SAP data with non-SAP data, create their own dashboards and reports, and even control when the data refreshes— without relying on IT assistance.

Access unified analytics dashboards: BI Office serves as a centralised analytics hub where users can easily consolidate and analyse content from SAP and other disparate sources, apply universal interactions, and change context on the fly.

Share content and context from SAP data sources: BI Office provides a platform for users to share and re-use content and business logic, as well as offer content recommendations and threaded conversations that expose important insights, relationships, and interactions. “BI Office has provided us with incredible insights combined with measurable cost and time savings, making it easy to access relevant and timely data,” said Jo McGurk, BI Manager at Voith FRS. “We are pleased BI Office is certified to integrate with SAP. As our user base expands, this addition to the BI Office platform will allow us to offer an alternative approach to access our core ERP data, helping us gain exceptional insight and understanding across our business.” “We have seen great success driving value for our customers and prospects with Pyramid Analytics’ technology,” said Hermann Hebben, Founder and Managing Director for QUNIS. “BI Office not only increases the availability and value of business analytics for the individual user, but also for the organisation as a whole. Decisions are made faster and with less risk. And now with this SAP-certified connector, organisations will be able to extend the reach and impact of their analytics by pulling critical data from their SAP platform into the decision-making process in a way that is secure and incredibly easy. We look forward to implementing it with our customers as they push forward on their analytics journey.” To learn more about this new BI Office functionality, visit: http://pages.pyramidanalytics.com/BI-Office-Release-v6.3.html  

About Pyramid Analytics Pyramid Analytics is a global leader offering a business analytics platform that enables individuals—from power users to knowledge workers to decision makers—to transform their organization into a data-driven business. As a complete web-based platform, combining self-serve analytics with centralized governance, BI Office demonstrates measurable utility, fosters genuine collaboration, and simplifies complex analysis. BI Office delivers best-in-class analytic functionality for organizations—on-premise or in the cloud. Pyramid Analytics' teams are based in operational centres across the globe.

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