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The Netherlands’ rail network sees millions of passenger journeys each day, alongside significant amount of freight, which is why maintaining over 7,000km of track is critical for both the national economy and the daily lives of commuters and businesses.
But when ProRail’s legacy SAP systems for financial and all back-office related processes began struggling to keep pace, it teamed up with long-term partner Capgemini to migrate to SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure.
Capgemini explained how the migration took four months and involved a large-scale data transfer from ProRail’s existing SAP system to SAP S/4HANA.
“With the new platform, ProRail’s tools and processes for key back-office processes such as finance, purchasing, project management, and reporting became more user-friendly, flexible, and overall better suited to the needs of the organisation’s employees,” Capgemini stated.
However, the setup of SAP S/4HANA was only the first step in a larger effort to migrate other legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA.
Following the introduction of SAP S/4HANA, ProRail and Capgemini turned their attention to ongoing application management.
The pair established a dedicated team to manage the organisation’s full application landscape, including both new and legacy technology, while ProRail prepared to adopt more agile ways of working.
“With SAP S/4HANA operating as the platform for this landscape, the partners were able to more easily provide support for existing applications while also having a better foundation for developing new tools,” Capgemini said.
“The new application management team also helped ProRail to reduce its time-to-market through improved communication between internal and external parties. With greater agility within its application landscape management and a foundation formed by SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Azure, ProRail now enjoys enhanced scalability and improved data-driven insights.”
Capgemini noted that as ProRail continues to develop and introduce new tools for railway maintenance, it now has the foundation to support them.
“As the partnership continues, ProRail and Capgemini will work together to introduce agile ways of working and ensure that railways within the Netherlands are more effectively maintained and expanded,” the company added.
