BMW GROUP DRIVES NEW GROWTH WITH RISE WITH SAP

BMW Group has expanded its strategic partnership with SAP to drive growth and accelerate its digital transformation.

Using RISE with SAP, BMW Group will transfer its entire SAP software landscape and merge its cloud strategy with its existing SAP S/4HANA systems, allowing for joint innovation for critical business areas such as finance, parts supply, warehousing, supply chain and production. This move enables BMW Group to digitalize faster, more comprehensively and more efficiently.

RISE with SAP will allow BMW Group to combine the latest SAP technology and cloud solutions to drive business innovation, with applications, platforms, tools and services in one contract. Moving from the traditional licensing model, both companies will operate a model covering infrastructure, cloud applications and operations.

Thomas Saueressig, member of the executive board of SAP SE responsible for SAP product engineering, said: “Our two companies are closely connected through 30 years of trusting cooperation. By expanding our partnership, we are taking a decisive step toward a digital future. This shows how SAP S/4HANA Cloud, and our broad portfolio of solutions create the foundation for companies to drive innovation and ensure our customers’ long-term success in a competitive world.”

Alexander Buresch, CIO and senior vice president, BMW Group IT, said: “This strategic decision will help us to drive our digitalization leadership even faster forward. We are increasing the flexibility of our infrastructure and creating maximum global scalability. And most im portantly, it allows us to bring business innovations to our customers and users much faster than before.”

Dominion Energy Plugs Into Oracle For Outage Restoration

Dominion Energy Virginia is leveraging capabilities in the Oracle Utilities Network Management System (NMS) to improve its network visibility, reliability and outage management response. The expanded platform will enable the utility to better manage increased data from distributed energy resources (DER) and meet its regulatory requirements.

Providing electricity to 2.7 million homes and businesses, Dominion Energy has utilized Oracle Utilities NMS for over a decade to plan and execute key switching activities. The company has upgraded its systems and added Oracle’s Fault Location Isolation and Service Restoration (FLISR) application. By implementing this solution, Dominion Energy will be able to automatically sectionalize outage impact, reduce service interruptions and increase reliability.

Brad Harkavy, vice president, Oracle Energy and Water, said: “Our collaboration with Dominion is the perfect example of how we constantly evolve our ADMS technologies to help utilities more confidently meet their pressing DER, customer service, regulatoryand business

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