Welcome to the media kit for
EPI-USE AppHaus Pretoria
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Fast facts about the SAP AppHaus Network:
23 AppHaus locations
89 643 visitors
3 708 workshops hosted
More about the SAP AppHaus Network & what makes the EPI-USE AppHaus unique:
The SAP AppHaus Network is a community of SAP AppHaus locations and likeminded SAP partners, united in the idea that innovation needs three key ingredients to flourish:
Process:
A human-centered approach to innovation
People:
A multi-disciplinary team
Place:
A creative environment
Clients benefit from shared experiences, best practices, and values. By spanning across all regions, the SAP AppHaus network brings innovation to SAP customers globally through leveraging the full potential of design thinking and SAP technologies, especially SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). This combination of process, people and place with SAP technology creates real added-value for clients.
"We have an innovative approach to traditional design thinking where we take inspiration from our African environment," explains Jhani Coetzee, Technical Lead for EPI-USE AppHaus Pretoria. "This approach breaks down physical and mental barriers. We are also diversifying our technology domain to provide bespoke solutions for our clients' unique problems."
Global groupelephant.com clients and other organizations benefit from the EPI-USE AppHaus space that provides an inspiring environment to connect, network and share ideas.
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Approved quotes:
“The first AppHaus in Africa will showcase this continent’s creativity, and is a prime opportunity for enhanced collaboration with our clients, and with organizations we’re not yet serving.”
Henrik Stammer
Managing Director and head of the EPI-USE’s German-language theatre of operations
“We value our South African heritage, having started out 40 years ago as a spin-off from the Computer Science Department at the University of Pretoria. Since then, we have grown into a diversified global organization employing 3,500 people in 40 countries. As the world’s foremost independent HR/Payroll specialist service provider for SAP technologies worldwide, we are leaders in designing, building, and implementing Cloud-based, hybrid and on-premises HR/Payroll systems for large, complex multinational corporations and public sector agencies around the world. Our involvement in Africa’s first AppHaus will allow our clients to further benefit from SAP Business Technology Platform, bringing together data and analytics, artificial intelligence, application development, automation, and integration in one environment.”
Henrik Stammer
Managing Director and head of the EPI-USE’s German-language theatre of operations
“We have an innovative approach to traditional design thinking where we take inspiration from our African environment. This approach breaks down physical and mental barriers. We are also diversifying our technology domain to provide bespoke solutions for our clients' unique problems.”
Jhani Coetzee
Technical Lead for EPI-USE AppHaus Pretoria
“This was way different than the other launches that I experienced so far. So what we have here at EPI-USE is really unique; having the combination of the outdoors and the indoors and bringing this together. What I heard today is unique.”
Jhani Coetzee
Svenja Mueller, SAP AppHaus Network
“We now have a place where we can come to, and have a space where ideas can just be generated and fuelled by all this beauty that surrounds us.”
Nonkululeko Mokoena
SAP
More about EPI-USE and groupelephant.com
groupelephant.com is a global group of boutique services firms and software companies, employing 3,500 people in 40 countries. Largely employee-owned, the Group is a mini conglomerate comprising circa 20 trading brands, the best known of which is EPI-USE, the world’s largest and most experienced independent SAP HR/Payroll specialist. EPI-USE has emerged as a leader in designing, building, and implementing Cloud-based, hybrid and on-premises HR/Payroll systems for large, complex multinational corporations and public sector agencies.
With a suite covering more than 40 countries, EPI-USE is the world’s largest developer and purveyor of SAP local payroll country versions, for regions in which SAP does not offer a standard payroll solution. In its 40-plus year history, EPI-USE has implemented or been involved with more than 1,500 SAP HCM-based implementations around the world, and licenses proprietary SAP-related software to over 1,000 large enterprises and public sector agencies worldwide.
groupelephant.com is characterized by a primary strategic imperative in terms of which it goes ‘Beyond Corporate Purpose’ in its day-to-day activities, and operates through a hybrid business model through which it funds and operates non-profits and impact investment businesses. Primary focus areas are the preservation of at-risk Elephants and Rhinos, through the economic upliftment of rural People in areas adjacent to the threatened species, or another definition of ‘ERP’, if you will. The hybrid business model has been the subject of two University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business case studies, published in 2016 and 2021.
