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CASE STUDY

Having seen significant growth over two decades , Bain & Company ( Bain ), one of the world ’ s leading management consultancies , made the choice to migrate to the cloud with SAP S / 4HANA Cloud Public Edition .

The system is now successfully running all of Bain ’ s core financials in 40 countries , marking a milestone for Bain since the firm embarked on an enterprise resource planning ( ERP ) modernization project in 2020 .
Given the extent of growth over decades , both organically and through acquisitions , Bain experienced a rise in manual and localized back-end processes – in addition to the challenges of integrating acquired businesses into the wider company .
“ SAP S / 4HANA Cloud Public Edition was the best ERP option to meet our needs because of its standard processes , latest industry best practices and continuously delivered innovation and I believe that adopting an SaaS solution will help future-proof our technology stack as we continue to grow ,” Bain CIO Ramesh Razdan said .
“ We ’ ve already completed our first year-end close on SAP S / 4HANA Cloud Public Edition and are very pleased with the results we ’ ve seen . I ’ m confident that we ’ re on course to deliver significant value from this implementation in the coming years .”
A Strategic Opportunity to Optimize Business Operations
For these reasons , Bain made the choice to migrate to the cloud with SAP S / 4HANA Cloud Public Edition .
In implementing SAP S / 4HANA Cloud Public Edition across its global business in 40 countries , Bain was

ADOPTING AN SAAS SOLUTION WILL HELP FUTURE-PROOF OUR TECHNOLOGY STACK AS WE CONTINUE TO GROW .

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