'SAP Overdrive' to drive tech innovation and agility into businesses in Bangladesh

FE reports

SAP India, a leading provider of business software solutions, along with its implementation partner in Bangladesh, Soltius Infotech Bangladesh Ltd. jointly organised a seminar Monday in the city.The seminar titled 'SAP Overdrive' at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre is SAP's premier business technology event in Bangladesh. The theme at 'SAP Overdrive' was "Business at the Speed of Thought" and the discussions deliberated on how SAP as an industry leader in business software solutions, can play a critical role in helping customers transform their business technology into a strategic lever for competitive differentiation and turn accelerated global change into opportunity for growth.MA Matin, director of IT, IFIC Bank Ltd, delivered the main speech and shared his observations on how the enterprises are leveraging on technology for their growth and advancement. He also expressed the opinion that with the help of right kind of technology, enterprises could accelerate innovation, become more agile and be able to effectively execute strategy and help their workforce embrace change. "Bangladesh's strategic location offers a high growth potential and has seen tremendous developments across segments like logistics, manufacturing, telecom, garments & textiles, pharmaceuticals, constructions, infrastructure, insurance, banking and so on" said Moushumee Basu Roy, regional director, East, SAP India."Today, to tap the global opportunities and to streamline operations, enterprises in Bangladesh are adopting enterprise software solutions. SAP, with its broad range of solutions for enterprises of all sizes and over 26 vertical specific solutions, is well poised to be the preferred enterprise software solutions vender for enterprises in Bangladesh". SAP has significant growth plans for the fast growing enterprise software solutions market in Bangladesh and showcased its select range of solutions to help businesses adapt to every new demand and the ability to stay prepared for every business challenge. Bruno Burbach, CEO, Soltius Infotech, and Madhukar Joshi, chairman, Soltius Infotech Bangladesh Ltd, elucidated on the capabilities, strength and experience of Soltius in the enterprise solution implementation arena in Bangladesh.Aktel, a leading telecom service provider in Bangladesh, has been successfully running on SAP's enterprise solution since 2006. Sufi Faruq Ibne Abubakar, head of IT of Aktel, shared his experience of implementing SAP ERP and provided insights on how SAP had helped in streamlining operations and promoting control over the entire business process of his organisation.Aktel has implemented SAP across the most critical business functions and Soltius Infotech Bangladesh Ltd. has helped Aktel in their successful implementation of SAP solutions.Some of SAP's leading customers in the related verticals include names like Aktel, British American Tobacco, Aventis Pharma, Novartis, BOC Bangladesh Limited, Young One and MGH. The length and breadth of its customer base is a reassurance of SAP's expertise and success in catering to the verticals that will derive growth in the region in years to come.

It has always been the case that foreigners spot our potential first and they move fast to tap that potential. Be it telecom, IT, energy, power, banking, pharma, they arrive first to milk our resources and money. Well, beggars can't be choosers, so I am not complaining, what I am wishing for is self-sustainability as early as possible. So that we can reverse the game in near future.