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Satellite-Enabled SD-WAN Service Deployed in South Sudan

RCS Communication (RCS), an ICT connectivity services to NGOs, Embassies with high visibility and insights on which to
company in South Sudan, has adopted and businesses of various sectors in base informed decisions. Flippie Odendal,
SES Networks’ SD-WAN service that will Juba, the capital of South Sudan. With the Managing Director, RCS said, "SES
enable RCS to deliver an improved user recent availability of fiber networks in the Networks’ SD-WAN service has met RCS’s
experience while optimizing resiliency and country, RCS began seeking services that requirements and direction of moving
bandwidth usage. SES Networks claims would enable them to bring resiliency and towards intelligent, software-defined
that its SD-WAN service is the first of its intelligence to the edge and pass end-to- services that will enable us to dynamically
kind as it enables customers to optimally end traffic securely over different available react to evolving market conditions and
utilize their available WAN access WAN links based on application-aware scale whenever needed." John-Paul
connections ranging from Geostationary steering. Through SES Networks’ SD- Hemingway, CEO of SES Networks said,"We
Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites and Medium WAN service, RCS can dynamically and developed SES Networks’ SD-WAN service
Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation, as well intelligently priorities and route application to bring to our customers intelligent,
as fiber and other terrestrial links. RCS traffic between its MEO satellite and application-aware resiliency, efficiency,
has been using SES’s low-latency MEO fiber links, resulting in improved up- visibility and control."
solution extensively since 2014 to provide time. Always-on network performance
reliable and uninterrupted Enterprise monitoring and analytics provides RCS

Egypt’s Ministry of Public Business Sector Leads Digital Transformation

The Ministry of Public Business Sector, the Coca-Cola Bottling
Company of Egypt, the HO Group, and Polyserve Chemicals
and Fertilizers are leading Egypt’s digital transformation during
Covid-19 coronavirus to drive new levels of business innovation
and customer experiences. As organizations across Egypt face
unprecedented challenges, they are turning to technologies
that provide reliable insights to help them better support their
employees, customers, and suppliers. “The rise of Covid-19
has made every Egyptian organization more aware about the
importance of accelerating digital transformation to transform
operations, innovation, and customer experiences,” said Hoda
Mansour, Managing Director, SAP Egypt and Levant. “The Ministry
of Public Business Sector, Polyserve, Coca-Cola, and HO Group
are leading Middle East examples of how organizations can drive
digital business innovation to manage the current challenges
and emerge more competitive post-pandemic.” The Ministry of Hoda Mansour, Managing Director, SAP Egypt
Public Business Sector worked with PwC to digitally transform automate its supply chain to thousands of pharmacies, and the
three organizations on the SAP S/4HANA real-time business SAP SuccessFactors human experience management suite to
suite: the Chemical Industry Holding Company, the Cotton Holding transform human resources processes for 10,000 employees.
Company, and the Metallurgical Holding Company By automating Polyserve Chemicals and Fertilizers, one of the largest fertilizer
business processes, the Ministry has full operational visibility and and chemical production and trading groups in Egypt and Africa-
real-time decision-making, and enhanced profits, supply chain, is digitally transforming its 4 subsidiaries (Abo Zaabel Fertilizers
manufacturing production, and customer experiences. Leading and Chemicals, Aswan Fertilizers and Chemicals, Ferchem Egypt,
soft drink producer The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt is and Polyserve Trading). Polyserve is adopting real-time solutions
taking the next steps in its digital transformation, with real-time in finance (S/4HANA Cloud), procurement (Ariba Sourcing),
solutions across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and human and talent management (SuccessFactors). In its next phase of
resources. The project will be based on using the latest SAP latest digital transformation, Polyserve aims to explore Industry 4.0
technologies across in-memory computing, Big Data analytics, innovations, along with Big Data analytics, the Internet of Things;
and the cloud, and is set to be a flagship digital transformation predictive maintenance; environment, health, and safety; and
project in Egypt and worldwide. One of the largest pharmaceutical the Digital Boardroom. Following the recent SAPPHIRE NOW
distributors in the Middle East and Africa, HO Group is digitally Converge conference, SAP is helping companies improve supply
transforming to enhance efficiency across its operations. HO chain and industry-specific processes with, connect through the
Group is using SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to business network, and embed sustainability as a critical measure

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