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BCG reinforces its local presence in Qatar by expanding to its new offices Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is expanding its presence in Qatar, with the aim to reach more than 100 Doha-based expert resources by 2025 to drive Qatar’s 2030 Strategy. After years of significant activity in the country, BCG officially opened its local office in Doha in 2017, following a surge in economic growth to invest time and resources into the expanding markets. Today, BCG team members contribute significantly to diversification strategies to strengthen the national economy and create jobs for Qataris. BCG’s new office, home to over 70 employees, is in Doha’s Pearl Island, a fascinating man-made island that sits on four million sqm of reclaimed land. BCG has fostered strong client relationships across the country and has a proven track record of delivering tangible impact for leading public and private organizations. The State of Qatar, with a GDP of 180 billion in 2021, is driven by Oil & Gas with plans to increase diversification to new sectors. Set to contribute to Qatar’s transformation vision,
BCG intends to emphasize the transfer of expert knowledge and become the country’s premier consulting firm. BCG’s new and improved presence in Doha demonstrates the firm’s commitment to Qatar while also connecting a well-established BCG network in the region. Qatar’s national vision aims to transform the state into an advanced nation by 2030 through four key pillars of human, social, economic, and environmental development. Supported by six managing directors and partners, BCG’s revamped presence in Doha demonstrates the firm’s commitment to Qatar by offering access to global expertise and insight. This, in turn, will support Qatar in accessing the resources that contribute towards the 2030 Vision.
SAP’s vision for future-proofed business in the age of AI comes to life At the SAP Sapphire conference in Orlando, SAP SE unveiled sweeping innovations and collaborations that equip customers to tackle an uncertain future with confidence. Breakthrough announcements included responsible Artificial Intelligence built into business solutions, ledger-based accounting for carbon tracking and industry-specific networks to bolster supply chain resilience. With these advances, SAP is helping customers transform their business models in the cloud, put sustainability at the center of their operations and boost agility to succeed amid ongoing change. At the dawn of a new
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Artificial Intelligence era, SAP is strengthening its commitment to embed powerful Artificial Intelligence capabilities across its portfolio to help customers solve business-critical problems in the flow of work. Customers can use SAP Business Artificial Intelligence with confidence because it is built responsibly. SAP is announcing a raft of advancements to SAP Business Artificial Intelligence, including innovations that personalize customer engagement, make procurement more productive and expand organizations’ abilities to find and develop critical talent across their entire workforce. SAP also draws on the strength
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of its rich ecosystem to benefit customers. The companies will collaborate on integrating SAP SuccessFactors solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning as well as with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service to access powerful language models that analyze and generate natural language. The integrations will enable new experiences designed to improve how organizations attract, retain and skill their people.
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