DECEMBER 2021CIOAPPLICATIONSEUROPE.COM8IN MYOPINIONPlotting the IT Roadmap for ERPACHRISTIAN BAYER, GLOBAL HEAD OF ERP/SAP, SYNGENTAt Syngenta, we have increased our offerings of non-core ERP processes in SaaS cloud solutions, such as Workday for human resources, Ariba for procurement, and GT Nexus for 4PL. This enables our on-premises systems to be more focused on core production and supply (P&S) systems and FI systems. It also reduces the complexity of our internal system architecture while increasing our need for good integration and master data management. More benefits include a reduced need for IT and infrastructure support for our applications, and a move away from traditional perpetual licensing toward straight consumption cost structures. We are also leveraging our core on-premises offerings of AWS cloud computing and Azure, impacting more cost-efficient and scalable ERP landscapes. This includes our public cloud IaaS offering that provides scalability and elasticity of compute, cost efficiency and agility in system provisioning. It also increases our network bandwidth by decreasing network costs that enables a move into public cloud hosting scenarios. We are also implementing cloud-based data lake technology, which decreases our dependency on proprietary data-warehousing technology that is costly and inflexible, ultimately increasing cross-functional data access and scalable compute power for advanced analytics and data science. We
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