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Tuesday, March 29 2022 - 12:00
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Axiata Digital Advertising Digitizes Finance Operations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Hitachi Solutions Asia Pacific
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

    - Hitachi Solutions Asia Pacific deployed Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply 
Chain Management to streamline ADA's financial processes and support its 
digital transformation initiatives to boost business expansion.

    Hitachi Solutions Asia Pacific (HSAP), a leading provider of global 
industry solutions powered by Microsoft Azure, is delighted to highlight its 
successful D365 Finance and D365 Supply Chain Management (SCM) implementation 
with Axiata Digital Advertising (ADA).
 
    ADA is a Malaysia-based data and artificial intelligence company known for 
developing and executing integrated digital, analytics, and marketing solutions 
with operations across ASEAN and South Asia. To help ADA achieve its strategic 
growth in the region, they realized the need to replace their legacy ERP 
systems.

    Previously using Dynamics NAV on-premises, the company has long outgrown 
the capabilities of the platform and had to heavily customize it just to suit 
their business needs. Other legal entities were also using different legacy 
systems or manual operations. ADA partnered with HSAP to implement D365 Finance 
and SCM across 11 legal entities in 9 countries within South and Southeast 
Asia. HSAP developed a global template and rolled out the new system in a big 
bang approach unifying ADA's business financial practices into one platform. 

    Dynamics 365 Finance helped enable its users to seamlessly work on their 
day-to-day activities and has improved financial consolidation and month-end 
close processes. ADA is now able to complete closing faster as compared to the 
previous 12 to 15 days after month-end close, audit requirements are satisfied. 
Utilizing Azure cloud, ADA plans to further expand their use of D365 Finance 
and SCM as they gear for business expansion, both in terms of geography and 
scope of business.

    "Dynamics 365 armed us with all the necessary capabilities to help simplify 
our operations and eliminate manual processes across our entities," said 
Stephen Tan, ADA's Head of Program Management. "Our partnership with Hitachi 
Solutions Asia Pacific and Microsoft enabled us to remain competitive in this 
rapidly evolving industry landscape by helping us better serve our clients 
while empowering our employees in utilizing a powerful cloud ERP platform." 
                                                                                
                                              
This deployment displayed HSAP's established partnership with ADA by swiftly 
delivering value through its best practices and expertise despite the pandemic. 
The project also marks a huge milestone for HSAP as this is its first 
implementation in the advertising industry and the team's first ERP project in 
newly touched base regions such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, and South Korea.

    "Our team is thrilled to support ADA in digitizing its financial processes 
with D365 which resolved its business pains in the best way possible," said 
Bimal Pandya, Vice President of Hitachi Solutions Asia Pacific. "With this 
successful implementation, we continue to provide ADA impactful guidance in 
helping its operation thrive towards transformation."

    About Axiata Digital Advertising

    ADA is a data and artificial intelligence company that designs and executes 
integrated digital, analytics, and marketing solutions. 
Operating across 10 markets in South and Southeast Asia, ADA partners with 
leading brands to drive their digital and data maturity and achieve their 
business goals.
 
    ADA complements its unique digital expertise with deep proprietary data of
    375 million consumers.

    About Hitachi Solutions Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.

    Hitachi Solutions Asia Pacific helps its customers successfully compete 
with the largest global enterprises using powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable 
industry solutions built on the Microsoft Cloud. Hitachi Solutions provides 
global capabilities with regional offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, 
India/Middle East, Japan, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit: 
https://global.hitachi-solutions.com/.

    Media Contact:
    Nina Gonzales 
    Associate Director – Marketing
    Hitachi Solutions Asia Pacific 
    info@hitachisolutions.com

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    Source: Hitachi Solutions
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