Hemas wins award for SAP Excellence

Hemas Holdings was among the top 24 winners of the SAP ACE 2006 (Awards for Customer Excellence), the first edition of SAP India’s annual awards in recognition of customer excellence.

Picture shows from left - Alan Sedghi, President & CEO, SAP Indian Sub-Continent, Kasturi Wilson, Director Shared Services of Hemas who received the award on behalf of Hemas Holdings, Hans Peter Kleay, President & CEO of SAP Asia Pacific, and Leo Apotheker, President Customer Solutions of SAP AG.

Hemas said in a statement it was adjudged winner in the ‘Best Templated Implementation’ category and is the only Sri Lankan company to emerge victorious at SAP ACE 2006. It joins the ranks of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd, Tata Steel, Bharat Petroleum Ltd, Titan Industries Ltd etc among others.

“This is a great achievement and I salute the team for all its efforts. SAP implementation at Hemas was not an IT project but an important business project, which would go far in providing the group with a competitive edge,” said Husein Esufally, CEO Hemas Holdings Ltd. Instituted on the occasion of SAP completing a decade of operations in India, SAP ACE 2006 received 156 nominations from 85 organisations from India and Sri Lanka for awards in 16 categories. Demonstrating the growing maturity of IT adoption amongst corporate enterprises, SAP ACE 2006 nominations further underlined how information technology is being effectively used by enterprises in : a) Effective business transformation, b) Taking advantage of growth and globalisation, c) Innovatively re-architecting their business models, d) Obtaining deep and actionable insights into their business and their ecosystem, e) Delivering strong return on investment and return on information to their stakeholders, while achieving better operational efficiencies.