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Welcome to the Google Cloud Hub for Sika, your personal website with a selection of valuable and inspiring information.

On this hub, you will find relevant articles that share insights into how Google's innovative tools and solutions can support you in transforming your business, including a smooth integration with MBCC Group. You can also find out why several of our customers, such as Whirlpool and METRO, decided to partner with Google Cloud to further boost their business and accelerate innovation.

We look forward to continuing the conversation.

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Kevin Delissy and the Google Cloud team

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Growing A Culture Of Innovation: 5 Lessons From Google

Organizations are facing unprecedented change and challenges stemming from a confluence of natural and artificial conditions. These forces are driving many to rethink the tools and technologies they use, and the places they need to be, to grow and to innovate. Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, shares five lessons on growing a culture of innovation.

Stepping up business transformation with SAP RISE and Google Cloud

With RISE, SAP is recognizing that enterprises need both an easy path to the cloud, plus cloud providers and consulting partners who will help them achieve business objectives. We share this vision, and are aligned with SAP’s goals for RISE in several ways.

6 businesses transforming with SAP on Google Cloud

Thousands of organizations globally rely on SAP for their most mission critical workloads. And for many Google Cloud customers, part of a broader digital transformation journey has included accelerating the migration of these essential SAP workloads to Google Cloud.

Why Google Cloud for SAP

Be prepared for the future with intelligent insights, reduced risk, agile deployments, and sustainable operations.

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“Forrester: The Total Economic Impact of SAP on Google Cloud” Gives Your Business a Transformation Accelerator

Research by Forrester has found that after migrating their SAP infrastructure to Google Cloud, organizations had more flexibility to spin up new SAP instances; reduced cost and effort to maintain SAP systems; and improved reliability, processing speeds, and uptime for SAP applications.

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IDC: Business Value of Google Cloud for SAP Environments

In this IDC Business Value paper, you'll learn how organizations saw 46% lower cost of operations by running equivalent SAP environments on Google Cloud; enabled IT infrastructure, database, and security teams to work 56% more efficiently and effectively; and achieved three-year benefits of $4.8 million per organization based on infrastructure cost savings, staff efficiencies, and employee productivity and revenue gains as described.

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Google Cloud case

Whirlpool

Whirlpool Corporation has expanded its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to deliver critical business systems and applications on Google Cloud’s secure, reliable, and sustainable infrastructure. The company, which rolled out Google Workspace to its employees in 2014, has now deployed its enterprise-wide SAP environment and applications on Google Cloud, providing its global teams with low-latency, secure access to SAP systems and data. Click on the logo to read more.

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METRO

METRO moved 100 instances into the Google Cloud Platform. The global wholesaler wanted a partner they could collaborate and innovate with, and they found one in Google. With an SAP S/4HANA system running on GCP and the help of machine learning, METRO has been able to lower costs, increase efficiency, and improve its customer experience. Click on the logo to watch the video.

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Tapestry

Google Cloud announced a multi-year agreement with Tapestry, the parent company of Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman, to migrate its SAP S/4HANA® environment to the cloud, modernizing its IT infrastructure and increasing overall operational efficiency. This partnership is a critical step to Tapestry’s broader acceleration program and furthers the company’s goal to drive growth and enhance profitability across its portfolio. Click on the logo to read more.

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Inchcape

Inchcape, a major automotive distributor, is migrating SAP data to Google Cloud to streamline global operations and improve consumer and automaker experiences. Inchcape helps drive innovation across its business as one of the first RISE with SAP customers on Google Cloud. Click on the logo to read more.

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ONE

Ocean Network Express (ONE), which owns the sixth largest fleet of containerships in the world, is working with Google Cloud to advance its digital transformation and data cloud strategy. The next-generation shipping company is enhancing its operational efficiency by running its mission critical SAP systems on Google Cloud, unlocking business insights and accelerating time to insight leveraging data analytics services like BigQuery, and enhancing employee collaboration with Google Workspace. Click on the logo to read more.