Signal Alliance a foremost systems integration ICT company has partnered SAP, the global leader in enterprise business solutions to offer best in class business planning and execution solutions supporting business strategy, process design and integration, and implementation to government and all industries in Nigeria.
This partnership which was flagged off at a public sector event organized by Signal Alliance in conjunction with SAP in Abuja penultimate week is to introduce the enterprise asset management (EAM) software to the Nigerian market.
EAM is a solution from SAP that ensures operational efficiencies, improves asset usage, reduces costs, and better manages capital expenditures throughout the asset lifecycle.
It will help address the infrastructural gap in public sector by providing a solution for managing public physical assets ranging from dams, power grids, airports, to vehicles, and building facilities.
The event, held at the Yar Adua Center in Abuja was tagged “Providing an Enterprise Asset Management Approach to optimizing public assets” saw delegates from various Ministries, Departments and Agencies in attendance.
Collins Onuegbu, managing director of Signal Alliance, described the concept of asset management as the ideal solution to help businesses & government institutions manage and maximize assets.
According to Onuegbu, “a look at the current findings of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts recently showed how national resources was mismanaged through multiple allocations to various government agencies and projects by past governments which makes the introduction of a robust EAM system like the one being introduced by SAP and Signal Alliance as both timely and of utmost importance”.
Oluseyi Akinyoyenu, head, Line of Business for SAP West Africa, reiterated the conviction expressed by SAP that for all of its systems and solutions, Signal Alliance has been identified as a reliable and competent partner in Nigeria that will always help to deliver solutions to customers in all sectors. Describing Enterprise asset management is a key driver for the Nigerian economy, he explained that this unique solution from SAP covers in details all assets owned by private and public enterprise irrespective of size.
He listed some of the benefits of SAP’s EAM solution to include: Faster, more accurate asset reporting and analytics – for savvier decision making, heightened visibility into asset performance, risk and capital expenditures, improved asset utilization with centralized monitoring and control, and Superior asset performance, efficiency, and reliability with minimized disruptions.
In a bid to differentiate between enterprise asset management solution from the more popular enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, a mutual partner of both SAP and Signal Alliance, Mahindra Satyam, represented by its regional head –Alliance & Presales SAP Practice MEA, Ramesh Ram, stated that “while ERP helps enterprises to plan towards the deployment of resources, EAM helps them to manage the assets acquired through the implementation of budgets”.
He went ahead to explain that capital expenditure management, time to public usage, rising operating expenses, Assets utilization, and Health safety and environmental performance are some of the current challenges EAM is designed to solve.
Also speaking at the event, Erabor Okogun, chief corporate adviser to Signal Alliance, mentioned that the 17 year old company which is the Titans of Tech 2013 Systems Integrator of the year award winner as well as a TOP 50 leading company in Nigeria, is focused on helping the Federal Government achieve its Transformation agenda hence the partnership with SAP to ensure appropriate technology is available to drive the transformation agenda and ensure the dividends of democracy to the citizenry.
Top government officials at the highly interactive session which followed the presentation leaned positively towards the adoption of SAP’s Enterprise Asset Management framework for all public properties and national assets.